Charts: Cars Overtakes GTA to Take Number One
Market gets much-needed shot in the arm.
The games software market gets its much-needed mid-summer shot in the arm this last week, with retailer promotions and summer holiday buying leading to a boost in sales on all formats, other than the Xbox 360, the console now direly in need of more AAA-games.
THQ’s Cars speeds by Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories this week to (inevitably?) take the number one spot in the All Formats chart, following the heavily hyped release of the movie last Friday.
GTA: Liberty City Stories ends its respectable run of five weeks at the top by dropping down to number two this week, whilst Nintendo’s handheld glory days continue with two DS exclusives still in the top five – New Super Mario Bros. a non-mover at number three and Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training up one place to number five.
Film tie-ins always shift of the shelves in the holidays, and this summer is no different, with four different titles based on three summer blockbusters all in the top ten this week.
Ubisoft’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow holds firm at number four, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest falls down one place to number six and Activision’s Over the Hedge droops slightly, but hangs in at number ten. Notably, the above three titles were the only top ten games to fall in sales this last week. The platinum release of EA’s The Sims 2 bumps that title up the chart this week, from number 13 up to number eight.
In 'good games sell poorly' news, Prey drops ten places to 17 in only its third week on sale (it was up at number two a fortnight ago) and the cutesy PSP title LocoRoco wobbles on the edge of the chart at 40, falling a depressing 13 places since last week.
In new entry news, SCEE’s Formula 1 '06 is the week’s highest new entry at 14, while Miami Vice fails to impress the PSP crowd with a fairly dire entry at number 25.
THQ’s Cars speeds by Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories this week to (inevitably?) take the number one spot in the All Formats chart, following the heavily hyped release of the movie last Friday.
GTA: Liberty City Stories ends its respectable run of five weeks at the top by dropping down to number two this week, whilst Nintendo’s handheld glory days continue with two DS exclusives still in the top five – New Super Mario Bros. a non-mover at number three and Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training up one place to number five.
Film tie-ins always shift of the shelves in the holidays, and this summer is no different, with four different titles based on three summer blockbusters all in the top ten this week.
Ubisoft’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow holds firm at number four, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest falls down one place to number six and Activision’s Over the Hedge droops slightly, but hangs in at number ten. Notably, the above three titles were the only top ten games to fall in sales this last week. The platinum release of EA’s The Sims 2 bumps that title up the chart this week, from number 13 up to number eight.
In 'good games sell poorly' news, Prey drops ten places to 17 in only its third week on sale (it was up at number two a fortnight ago) and the cutesy PSP title LocoRoco wobbles on the edge of the chart at 40, falling a depressing 13 places since last week.
In new entry news, SCEE’s Formula 1 '06 is the week’s highest new entry at 14, while Miami Vice fails to impress the PSP crowd with a fairly dire entry at number 25.
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Comments
Joji 1 Aug 2006 16:25
1/3
This is the kind of curse of games, that we must play second fiddle to the high and mighty film industry. Bend over, here comes the film license game.
Cars might be a rib tickler, but I'm so tired of seeing these unimaginative games suck up kiddy bucks, but what can I do, nowt.
Prey is a superb game that deserves credit or even Loco Roco, but that's the charts for you and why I never look at them.
Cars might be a rib tickler, but I'm so tired of seeing these unimaginative games suck up kiddy bucks, but what can I do, nowt.
Prey is a superb game that deserves credit or even Loco Roco, but that's the charts for you and why I never look at them.
I'll Eat Your Soul 1 Aug 2006 19:59
2/3
I dare say Loco Roco would have done better if it came out before people traded in their PSPs.
tyrion 2 Aug 2006 08:01
3/3
I'll Eat Your Soul wrote:
I dare say Loco Roco would have done better if it came out before people traded in their PSPs.
Given that the PSP sold three times as many units of software than the 360 in the UK last week. You'd assume even more people traded in their 360s, would you?
The fact is, even if you don't want to admit it, in the UK, the PSP has sold well and continues to sell software well.
In fact last week, PSP software sales were more than XBox, XBox 360 and Gamecube combined. By a reasonable margin.
In the UK, it's only since the launch of the DS Lite that DS software sales have surpassed PSP sales. That gap is closing to the point that last week it was smaller than that of the gap between PSP software sales and the combined sales of XBox, 360 and GC.
This has no bearing on sales elsewhere, of course, but then neither have the charts we are discussing.