Lego Batman 2 continues the series’ soaring successes by grappling into the top spot this week. FIFA 12 is still right up there in second, thanks to football being at the forefront of everyone’s mind because of Euro 2012. FIFA Street also climbs a few places from 13th to 8th.
Max Payne is climbing again, it had a special edition release last week to give it a little sales kick. Bethesda’s Skyrim is also moving upwards, perhaps in anticipation of the Dawnguard DLC or perhaps simply because it’s a great counter-measure to all this football.
Civ V: Gods and Kings is another new entry at number 16, just behind the fairly poor Game of Thrones RPG which is still cashing in on the TV show’s popularity and probably doing fairly well at the trade in counter too.
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor doesn’t feature in the top 40 at all.
Here’s the top 20:
- LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES – WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
- FIFA 12 – ELECTRONIC ARTS
- TOM CLANCY’S GHOST RECON: FUTURE SOLDIER – UBISOFT
- MAX PAYNE 3 – TAKE 2
- BATTLEFIELD 3 – ELECTRONIC ARTS
- LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW – WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
- MARIO & SONIC LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES – SEGA
- THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM – BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
- SNIPER ELITE V2 – 505 GAMES / MASTERTRONIC
- FIFA STREET – ELECTRONIC ARTS
- DIRT SHOWDOWN – CODEMASTERS
- BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY – WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
- DIABLO III – ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
- GAME OF THRONES – KOCH MEDIA
- TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 13 – ELECTRONIC ARTS
- CIVILIZATION V: GODS AND KINGS – TAKE 2
- CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS – ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
- SKYLANDERS: SPYRO’S ADVENTURE – ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
- ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS – UBISOFT
- DRAGON’S DOGMA – CAPCOM
Source: UKIE
Taylor Made
Gravity rush was quickly dazed out of the charts
Youles
Yeah, shame as it’s a decent game. For once it was the same price on the Store (£30) so could be partly why it doesn’t appear here (since I don’t think these charts include download).
LTG Davey
Go Batman! :) Really enjoying it so far. Playing through it with the Mrs and its easily our favourite in the series so far. The voice acting is awesome.
Nice to see Lollipop Chainsaw still riding high in the charts too. Played through it this weekend and it’s a lot of fun. Sure the combat isn’t exactly deep but the humour is great and I enjoyed every second of it. Well worth the £24 I paid for it
JesseDeya
“Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor doesn’t feature in the top 40 at all.”
Lolz. Surprising!
Makes you wonder though…
Kinect? Check.
Microsoft Exclusive? Check.
Completely Crap? Check.
Normally those three things mean at least a million sales.
damoxuk
Actually Kinect games aren’t doing so well in sales terms apart from that star wars game. Just like 3rd party Wii games :)
As for how bad Steel battalion did – the worst thing is not that it didn;t chart on the top 40 at all no the fact it didn’t chart on the 360 only top 30 at all. Ouch – sales must be under 1k easy.
LTG Davey
Shite un-finished game sells poorly. Justice is finally served :D
fs
Am I missing something here?
CoD Black Ops is outselling MW3 even though its older?
I think this is a clear indicator of how far the series has slumped. Call of Duty 4 was the peak, unfortunetely its going to be a painful fall to the bottom for IW.
Not that I take anything away from Black Ops, I think it was the best CoD since 4!
Treyarch always were my preffered dev.
LTG Davey
Agreed. BLOPs was great, providing you didn’t buy it day one for the PS3 lol.
Forrest_01
It’s most likely that people are trying to get warmed up for Blops 2, so the natural instinct would be to buy Blops (either again or for the first time).
I’m not saying you are wrong about the series hitting a lull, but i personally wouldn’t think of getting MW3 if i was wanting to get less rusty in preparation for Blops 2.
BrendanCalls
Nice to see Arkham City in there, gotta be bumped up the charts by the £20 release on PSN
Forrest_01
Does these charts cover digital releases now then?
Forrest_01
…& by that i of course mean ‘Do’, not ‘Does’.
Doh.
freezebug2
Gah! I thought that you were going to have a chav for a day session there mate innit!
Perish the thought. :P
Forrest_01
Yeah, i did go a bit ‘Vicky Pollard’ for a moment there. Soon corrected though! :D
Peter Chapman
No, these charts are only retail. I still don’t think Sony release decent numbers for PSN sales. Bumped by the DLC, probably? Or maybe brand confusion with the new Lego game?
Forrest_01
I think it has to be the latter really tbh – I really don’t see a bit of DLC (that most consider pretty throwaway) to have surged sales by that much.
Although it may not just be confusion though – I reckon its a strong possibility that somewhere has an offer where if you buy Lego, you get Arkham City cheap. Can’t say i’ve seen anything myself though.
freezebug2
Sniper Elite still selling ;)
Sheesh, out of that list I’ve only purchased two of the titles :’$
Forrest_01
Surprisingly, i only own 8.
Not sure whether that is a good thing or a bad thing at the moment! :S
freezebug2
“Backlog” springs to mind. Can’t blame you though, it’s just too tempting sometimes to pass on them!
Forrest_01
To be honest, ‘Backlog’ doesn’t even cover it – Bearing in mind that these are all generally pretty recent games (with the exceptions of Arkham City, Blops & Revelations), i won’t mention the piles of older titles that i have sitting collecting dust at the moment.
To be honest, i think i have issues! XD
Awayze
Are people that sad that they’re buying Blops for preparation of Blops 2? Blops is the worst COD game ever.
damoxuk
Actually I thought it was decent (campaign wise ofc – MP FPS are bore fests :) )
Forrest_01
Even if that were the case (which i would suggest that is a pretty subjective opinion), if i were looking to get warmed up for a game, i would likely go out & buy the previous game made by the same company, yes.
It’s also possible that Blops has been reduced in order to fuel hype for Blops 2.
The Lone Steven
So the shoddy game with piss poor kinect intergration and caused Peter to raid the TSA IRN BRU supply(we ran out of beer) has failed to get up into the top 20. Not surprised.
Apart from GOT and Lollipop, it’s all sequels. I’m guessing people are buying BLOPS in order to prepare for BLOPS 2.
Origami Killer
Not forgetting Dragon’s Dogma and Sniper Elite V2 (in a way) as well.
Forrest_01
Plus Lego isn’t really a sequel either in the traditional sense. Why they didn’t just call it DC Superheroes & have done with it is beyond me though. I guess it was to draw in the fans of the first game with a title that they kind of knew.
Also, is Future Solider a sequel? I would have said it was a new game within the Ghost Recon series. A bit like Need For Speed, which has numerous properties under the one umbrella title.
In fact, i think i count a maximum of 11 of that top 20 as being a sequel of some kind (which even includes Lego). The rest are either new IP’s, remakes & spin-offs from what i can see.
You are right that it is mostly sequels & new versions of older games (such as FIfa & Tiger Woods), but its definitely not all bar two.
gazzagb
Surprised Lollipop Chainsaw entered in there so high, it wasn’t really advertised at all.