UK Sales Chart – Week ending 5th September

EA has scored a hat-trick this week with their two new entries complimenting the previous week’s top game (Tiger Woods) and giving the top 3 places to the publishing giant.

1. Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (Pandemic Studios)
2. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 (EA Tiburon)
3. Spore (Maxis)
4. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
5. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
6. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)
7. The Sims 2: Apartment Life
8. Beijing 2008 (Eurocom Entertainment)
9. Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (Traveller’s Tales)
10. Too Human (Silicon Knights)
11. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward)
12. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Neversoft)
13. Guitar Hero: On Tour (Vicarious Visions)
14. Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)
15. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Sora Ltd.)
16. Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise (Rare)
17. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky (GSC Game World)
18. Wall•E (Helixe)
19. Infinite Undiscovery (Tri-Ace)
20. Soul Caliber IV (Namco)

This week’s chart really bucks the recent trends. Nintendo is no longer on top, and there are a whole three PC games in the top 20! Is this madness? No, this is SEPTEMBER!

Pandemic’s destruct-em-up, Mercenaries 2 satisfied gamers desire for explosions, selling nearly double the amount on 360 than PS3. The PC and PS2 versions only accounted for 7% of the overall sales, perhaps showing that gamers have a preference for the current-gen consoles.

Tiger Woods managed a 9% increase in sales since its release last week, but still had to settle for second place. And Will Wright’s creation-sim Spore was only 1,162 units behind Tiger and accounted for 53% of all the full-priced PC games sold this week.

Three non-EA new releases manage to get into the top 20. Xbox 360 exclusives Viva Pinata and Infinite Undiscovery enter at 16 and 19 respectively. Whilst PC-only prequel S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky managed a respectable 17th place. We shall have to wait and see if it can manage the 2 million sales of previous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game, Shadow of Chernobyl.

Elsewhere in the chart, good news as sales of Wall•E plummeted from 7th to 18th