UK Video Games Charts: Saints Row 3 Beats Out Skyrim

The UK video game charts are in. The lead-up to Xmas begins. There is no Need for Speed good enough to take its one-time traditional place as Xmas #1. In fact, Modern Warfare 3 is the Christmassy best-bet. However, in more interesting chart news... "Cultured" Skyrim has been seen off by "Yobbish" Saints Row: The Third.

According to Chart-Track, "Saint's Row: The Third, up from No4 to No3 (-40%) swaps places with Skyrim (-43%) even though both titles are down by similar amounts."

In terms of the rest of the pack:

"Assassin's Creed: Revelations clings to second place despite a 61% drop in sales...

"FIFA 11 (+22%) and Just Dance 3 (+22%) are the only Top 10 titles to increase sales this week with EA[/i]s Christmas football favourite a non-mover at No5 and Ubisoft's popular dancing sequel up 2 places to No8. The new releases are coming thick and fast, but nothing on the scale of last week's Assassin's Creed: Revelations with WWE 12 the highest new entry at No6 (22% up on THQ's 2011 title), one place ahead of another chart debutant - Nintendo's Professor Layton and the Spectre's Call new at No7."

What of MW3's biggest genre rival? Battlefield 3 sits at #10 with sales 4% down week-on-week.

Finally and yes, predictably, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (-41%) keeps its grip on top spot for a 3rd consecutive week after launch, a feat predecessor Black Ops couldn't manage last year (denied by Gran Turismo 5).

{1} - 1 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Activision
{2} - 2 - Assassin’s Creed: Revelations - Ubisoft
{4} - 3 - Saints Row: The Third - THQ
{3} - 4 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Bethesda
{5} - 5 - FIFA 12 - EA
{NE} - 6 - WWE ’12 - THQ
{NE} - 7 - Professor Layton and the Spectre’s Call - Nintendo
{10} - 8 - Just Dance 3 - Ubisoft
{8} - 9 - Battlefield 3 - EA
{9} - 10 - Super Mario 3D Land - Nintendo

Source: Chart-Track