UK Video Game Chart: FIFA Street Leads EA Domination
GAME's position for new release sales weakened.
Electronic Arts continues to top the UK video game charts, despite not having its latest games stocked at specialist retail chain GAME. FIFA Street, which was released on Friday, stormed to claim the #1 position, while Mass Effect 3, SSX and FIFA 12 hold the following three positions in the Top 10.
Nintendo's Mario Party 9, another title that is not being stocked at GAME or Gamestation stores, hangs on to its position at #5. Of the top 5, SSX and FIFA 12 can be purchased within a GAME Group outlet, but the argument that new release games will sell poorly without a physical retail presence has been thoroughly dampened by chart results in the past few weeks.
Elsewhere in the Top 10, RAGE re-enters at #7, Zumba Fitness gets kicked upwards a few places and Mario & Sonic's latest Olympic jaunt climbs ahead. Assassin's Creed: Revelation's non-movement and Modern Warfare 3's drop to #10 rounds the chart off this week.
{NE} - 01 - FIFA Street - Electronic Arts
{01} - 02 - Mass Effect 3 - Electronic Arts
{02} - 03 - SSX - Electronic Arts
{04} - 04 - FIFA 12 - Electronic Arts
{05} - 05 - Mario Party 9 - Nintendo
{07} - 06 - Mario & Sonic London 2012 Olympic Games - SEGA
{RE} - 07 - RAGE - Bethesda
{10} - 08 - Zumba Fitness - 505 Games
{09} - 09 - Assassin’s Creed: Revelations - Ubisoft
{08} - 10 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Activision
Nintendo's Mario Party 9, another title that is not being stocked at GAME or Gamestation stores, hangs on to its position at #5. Of the top 5, SSX and FIFA 12 can be purchased within a GAME Group outlet, but the argument that new release games will sell poorly without a physical retail presence has been thoroughly dampened by chart results in the past few weeks.
Elsewhere in the Top 10, RAGE re-enters at #7, Zumba Fitness gets kicked upwards a few places and Mario & Sonic's latest Olympic jaunt climbs ahead. Assassin's Creed: Revelation's non-movement and Modern Warfare 3's drop to #10 rounds the chart off this week.
{NE} - 01 - FIFA Street - Electronic Arts
{01} - 02 - Mass Effect 3 - Electronic Arts
{02} - 03 - SSX - Electronic Arts
{04} - 04 - FIFA 12 - Electronic Arts
{05} - 05 - Mario Party 9 - Nintendo
{07} - 06 - Mario & Sonic London 2012 Olympic Games - SEGA
{RE} - 07 - RAGE - Bethesda
{10} - 08 - Zumba Fitness - 505 Games
{09} - 09 - Assassin’s Creed: Revelations - Ubisoft
{08} - 10 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Activision
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PaulRayment 19 Mar 2012 10:59
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Isn't this all relative. If none of the new Games are stocked at GAME then surely the top ten will still include 'new games' unless everyone went on some massive old game retail splurge.
Now if FIFA 12 hadn't been stocked and SSX had, we might have a more interesting set of stats.
In other news, where is Street Fighter X Tekken. That has to be bad form? Oddly enough my local (Leeds) HMV didn't have any copies left in stock, meaning there wasn't anywhere in Leeds you could buy a copy..well in the city centre anyway.
Now if FIFA 12 hadn't been stocked and SSX had, we might have a more interesting set of stats.
In other news, where is Street Fighter X Tekken. That has to be bad form? Oddly enough my local (Leeds) HMV didn't have any copies left in stock, meaning there wasn't anywhere in Leeds you could buy a copy..well in the city centre anyway.