UK Sales Chart – Week ending 14th November
No prizes for guessing which game would be at the top of the charts this week. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is by far the biggest launch of any game EVER. Selling a staggering 1.78 million copies in its first five days on sale in the UK, it has generated £67.4 million in revenue.
1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (New Entry)
2. Wii Sports Resort (2)
3. FIFA 10 (1)
4. Forza Motorsport 3 (5)
5. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (6)
6. Mario Kart Wii (11)
7. Grand Theft Auto Episodes – Liberty City (7)
8. Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 (8)
9. Football Manager 2010 (3)
10. Dragon Age: Origins (4)
11. Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (14)
12. WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2010 (10)
13. Need for Speed: Shift (12)
14. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (16)
15. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (38)
16. Tekken 6 (9)
17. Wii Fit (15)
18. Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training (23)
19. Professor Layton and the Curious Village (29)
20. DJ Hero (17)
21. Borderlands (13)
22. Star Wars: Clone Wars – Republic Heroes (25)
23. Hasbro Family Game Night: Vol 2 (New Entry)
24. Halo 3: ODST (19)
25. Rhythm Paradise (28)
26. Guitar Hero 5 (22)
27. Rabbids Go Home (New Entry)
28. Ghostbusters: The Video Game (20)
29. Style Boutique (24)
30. Band Hero (35)
31. Mario Kart DS (30)
32. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (21)
33. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (26)
34. Women’s Murder Club: Games of Passion (New Entry)
35. MySims Agents (34)
36. The Beatles: Rock Band (32)
37. Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time (18)
38. UP (31)
39. Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force (Re-entry)
40. Batman: Arkham Asylum (36)
To put Modern Warfare successes into context, this single game has grossed for Activision almost twice as much as the entire entertainment software market last week. The Xbox 360 version alone sold over 1million copies in its first week, making £38.5 million, which on its own is more than last week’s total entertainment software market figure.
Modern Warfare 2 has also demolished the previous launch record held by GTA IV, which only managed a trifling 927,000 units and £39.9million in revenue.
Wii Sports Resort increases sales by 45% this week, moving back up to second place, but is still far far away from Modern Warfare 2’s sales. Last week’s No.1, FIFA 10 stays steady in terms of sales, which sees it get pushed down to No.3.
Thanks to competitive pricing of Mario Kart Wii it moves up five places to No.6, giving Nintendo three titles within the top 10 now.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is by far the highest climber this week, moving up twenty-three places to No.15. Although part of this may be a knock-on effect from the success of Modern Warfare 2, the fact that a Wii version of COD4 (the Reflex Edition) has finally been released this week probably helped matters too.
The biggest loser this week is Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time, falling nineteen places to No.37. Could our overwhelmingly positive review keep it in the Top 40 next week?
All info provided by Chart-Track
8 comments ↓
Monkey Rimmer
November 17th, 2009
Well there’s a surprise! Is it just me, or is anyone else feeling disappointed with MW2? It’s not the big AAA title I expected…. Campaign = just over 5 hours of play time? Only 2 player Co-Op in Spec Op Mode. Multiplayer pretty much the same as COD4? Roll on this friday…. Left 4 Dead 2! At least that’ll be fun!
Cloned Trooper
November 17th, 2009
I think you must be playing WAW mate, cos if thats MW2 your Talking about then you need help. Everybody else thinks it’s awesome. Perhaps good FPS are just not your Bag!
Monkey Rimmer
November 17th, 2009
No, that’s my opinion. Out of the big titles I’ve played this year, I found MW2 to be a let down. Batman was brilliant. Uncharted 2 was brilliant. I’ve found Borderlands to be more enjoyable than MW2 which is a title I didn’t follow until release. I love FPSs, always have, I just think COD4 was better than MW2. I also thought WAW was a HUGE let down, but then it was made by Treyarch, enough said! If everyone else thinks MW2 is ‘awesome’ then maybe I’m just not a sheep?
BionicRob
November 18th, 2009
I’ve got to agree with Monkey Rimmer on this one. It’s a cracking game with some breathtaking set pieces but other than that this is just more of the same, albeit it without the same high standards as COD4. Perhaps once the hype and the “oh my god it’s finally here!” subsides people will be a little bit more subjective in their opinions. Compare this to a truly AAA title like Uncharted 2 – no contest!
Manu
November 18th, 2009
I agree with Monkey Rimmer also, for me COD4 is best than MW2
the story is so-so, the online game is not a leap from COD4 the only thing new that save this game into my eyes is spec ops, but thats not enough for the hype, if you want a better online experience go with L4D2
Northfield
November 18th, 2009
I think that you’re possibly expecting too much from the game! MW2 is a great game – but you’re right to say it’s not a massive leap from the original MW. I’m happy with 5 hours of fantasticly tight campaign than a stretched out series of levels I lose interested in progressing through.
Stephen
November 18th, 2009
Great game. Money well spent
Monkey Rimmer
November 19th, 2009
I can’t wait till Friday to get L4D2! I know I’m gonna enjoy that one as I’m still loving the first game even now (in fact last night!)
I know not everyone will look at something in the same way, I just felt compelled to speak up (as I’m an opinionated gob-shite?) I feel that after all the hoo-hah about Activision putting the price of COD6 up, I expected to see something that would justify that extra expense. I feel that I didn’t see anything that could justify £40 let alone any more expense!
I found the story a little lacklustre, some of the missions (e.g. the Burger Restaurant) just felt like a waste of time. Running back and forth from each restaurant? Come one…. had the developers run out of ideas? I was glad the mission was over not because it was intense (which I admit it was at times), but because I was bored by the time I took out the two APCs.
One thing I particularly disliked with COD6 was the Rainbow Six Breach and Clear rip off. I love Rainbow Six games which handle the B&C process very well, I felt it was badly implemented in COD6 leading to nothing more than frustration.
The AI yet again was a let down, the friendly AI seemingly educated to Forest Gump standard, whereas the enemy AI were battlefield tacticians!
Yeah, I agree, some parts were good, the online good (but then COD4 was good in the first place!), the Co-Op Spec Ops limited. Was it a game worth the extra expense? Not in my opinion. If you love it, fine, enjoy it, I’ll just wait till something better comes along…. Left 4 Dead anyone?