UK Game Charts: Wii Fit to Bust

It's the third week after Xmas and we have ourselves a new entry to the UK All Formats video game chart from Chart-Track. Like Week 3 in 2007 the new entry comes in the form of an adventury, sort of RPG magical outing. 2007's NE was World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. This year the new entry comes in the form of The Lord of the Rings: Conquest from Pandemic and Electronic Arts. So, some good news for Pandemic.

Interestingly to anoraks like us is the fact that a whole year on and Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training remains in the charts. Okay, so year-on-year it's dropped by six places, but nevertheless it's good going.

Sitting, or probably bobbing up and down, at Number 1, however, is Wii Fit... for the fifth time according to Chart-Track, which also tells us that it's never managed to stay at Number 1 for more than a week.

Just how Number 1 is it? Apparently only 1,262 sales stand between it and Call of Duty: World at War despite the latter seeing an 18% sales drop in sales.

Here's news from outside the Top 10: says Chart-Track, "Other than Wii Fit there are only two other All Formats Top 40 titles that see sales gains this week. They are Grand Theft Auto IV (+26%), up from No33 to No18 thanks to a retailer price promotion and Halo 3 (+20%), back in the Top 40 at No29."

It looks to us as if the sales boost for the Xbox 360 and its price cut over Xmas is starting to pay off then.

UK All Formats Chart
(4) - 1 - Wii Fit - Nintendo.
(2) - 2 - Call of Duty: World at War - ActiBliz.
(NE) - 3 - The Lord of the Rings: Conquest - EA.
(1) - 4 - FIFA 09 - EA.
(5) - 5 - Wii Play - Nintendo.
(3) - 6 - Need for Speed: Undercover - EA.
(7) - 7 - Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games - Sega.
(6) - 8 - Guitar Hero: World Tour - ActiBliz.
(RE) - 9 - Carnival: Funfair Games - 2K Play.
(RE) - 10 - Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training - Nintendo.