Industry NewsUK Charts, week ending 29 NovChart Track - December 1, 2008
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at 12:22PM PST on December 1, 2008
Individual formats top ten: 1. Mario Kart Wii, 2. Call of Duty: WaW (360), 3. Dr Kawashima's Brain Training, 4. Wii Play, 5. Call of Duty: WaW (PS3), 6. Resistance 2, 7. Wii Music, 8. Wii Fit, 9. Need for Speed Undercover (360), 10. Need for Speed Undercover (PS3). Follow the link for the full top 40.
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Quite interesting that MK Wii, a months old game is above COD:WaW x360, a 3 weeks old game. Full commentary from Charttrack :
CoD Fries The Competition
The Entertainment Software Top 40 reveals that three-quarters of titles listed have increased their sell-through over last week – one of the biggest exceptions is Activision Blizzard’s ‘Call of Duty: World at War’ (-30%), although the title still sits on top of the pile for a third successive week.
Both of last week’s big new releases climb 2 places this week with EA’s ‘Need for Speed: Undercover’ up from No4 to No2 (+35%) and Eidos’ ‘Tomb Raider: Underworld’ up from No9 to No7 (+12%). EA also take No3 with ‘FIFA 09’ (+12%) dropping one place to accommodate the rise of ‘NFS Undercover’, with Nintendo’s ‘Mario Kart Wii’ (+17%) also dropping one place to No4. Nintendo climb one place to No5 with ‘Dr Kawashima Brain Training’ (+28%) and Konami climb 2 places to No6 with ‘Pro Evolution Soccer 2009’ (+21%). No7 is the aforementioned ‘Tomb Raider: Underworld’ (+12%) and climbing 2 places to No8 is Nintendo’s ‘Wii Play’ (+3%). Activision Blizzard climb 2 places to No9 with ‘Guitar Hero: World Tour’ (-1%) and the only new entry this week is Sony’s ‘Resistance 2’ on PS3 at No10. This is the follow-up to one of the format holder’s original launch titles ‘Resistance: Fall of Man’ – however launch week sales of ‘Resistance 2’ are only around two-thirds of the original.