A slight lull in overall game sales this week following last week’s record sales of EA’s FIFA 07, with that title still holding onto the All Formats number one spot in its second hugely successful week on the shelves. Or rather, its second successful week flying off the shelves.
Indeed, sales of FIFA 07 last week were more than the next seven titles in the chart combined, with over 150,000 units shifting off the shelves into eager consumer’s bags last week, which means the game has already sold around 355,000 copies in the last two weeks.
Football fever aside, LucasArts’ superlative Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy climbs back up two places to number two this week, whilst EA’s ‘Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 holds firm at number three for the third week in a row.
Eidos’ Just Cause swops places with Lego Star Wars II, dropping from number two last week to this week’s number four and Square-Enix’s Disney collaboration Kingdom Hearts II holds firm at number five.
THQ’s Cars jumps two places from number eight to number six, leaping ahead of the publisher’s Company of Heroes which is a non-mover at seven.
The brain-training phenomenon shows no signs of abating, with Nintendo’s Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training hopping up the chart, yet again, up two places from number ten last week to number eight this week.
Note that the title has been on sale for an impressive eighteen weeks. It’s hard to even remember the noises being made by those cynics who said that brain-training games were a Japanese phenomenon that wouldn’t translate for western markets, earlier this year. Can Nintendo repeat the same steady success with the Wii later this year and into 2007? Only time will tell.
Codemaster’s LMA Manager 2007 falls down the top ten this week, dropping three places to number nine. Seems wannabe-managers are getting hyped up for the forthcoming releases of Eidos' Championship Manager 2007 and Sega/Sports Interactive's Football Manager 2007.
Finally, its another great week for the DS, what with the release of the Opera Internet browser last week (full SPOnG review of which to follow shortly) plus the week’s highest climber being Nintendo’s 42 All-Time Classics. Casual gaming gold.
Indeed, sales of FIFA 07 last week were more than the next seven titles in the chart combined, with over 150,000 units shifting off the shelves into eager consumer’s bags last week, which means the game has already sold around 355,000 copies in the last two weeks.
Football fever aside, LucasArts’ superlative Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy climbs back up two places to number two this week, whilst EA’s ‘Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 holds firm at number three for the third week in a row.
Eidos’ Just Cause swops places with Lego Star Wars II, dropping from number two last week to this week’s number four and Square-Enix’s Disney collaboration Kingdom Hearts II holds firm at number five.
THQ’s Cars jumps two places from number eight to number six, leaping ahead of the publisher’s Company of Heroes which is a non-mover at seven.
The brain-training phenomenon shows no signs of abating, with Nintendo’s Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training hopping up the chart, yet again, up two places from number ten last week to number eight this week.
Note that the title has been on sale for an impressive eighteen weeks. It’s hard to even remember the noises being made by those cynics who said that brain-training games were a Japanese phenomenon that wouldn’t translate for western markets, earlier this year. Can Nintendo repeat the same steady success with the Wii later this year and into 2007? Only time will tell.
Codemaster’s LMA Manager 2007 falls down the top ten this week, dropping three places to number nine. Seems wannabe-managers are getting hyped up for the forthcoming releases of Eidos' Championship Manager 2007 and Sega/Sports Interactive's Football Manager 2007.
Finally, its another great week for the DS, what with the release of the Opera Internet browser last week (full SPOnG review of which to follow shortly) plus the week’s highest climber being Nintendo’s 42 All-Time Classics. Casual gaming gold.
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