The number of new releases picked up a little last week, but nothing really significant enough to boost overall sales. Publishers are holding on to their bigger titles for release in this week’s half-term hols.
EA’s Need For Speed: Most Wanted holds on to the top spot in the All Formats chart as supplied by ChartTrack, and matches its predecessor Need for Speed 2: Underground with a storming ten weeks at the top.
After this, there’s no change in the top four – with The Sims 2 at two, Pro Evolution Soccer 5 at three and FIFA 06 at four. Electronic Arts’ Rugby 06 debuts at five, giving EA four of the top five this week.
Ubi’s Rugby Challenge holds on to its number seven slot, proving that there is a significant demand for Rugby games at this time of year, coinciding with some big Rugger Bugger tournament that’s apparently going on somewhere (The Six Nations, we know, we know!).
GameCube software enjoyed a slight upturn in sales this last week, up 11% due to the release of Nintendo’s own Mario Party 7. Although tellingly, Mario Party 7 does not actually make it into the All Formats Top 40 at all – a sharp reminder of how peripheral the Gamecube has become in terms of software sales.
While Nintendo is certainly doing well of late in the PR war of words, and also with DS (Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time DS straight in at number ten) it's dropping behind considerably with GameCube in the bottom line sales war of filthy lucre.
EA’s Need For Speed: Most Wanted holds on to the top spot in the All Formats chart as supplied by ChartTrack, and matches its predecessor Need for Speed 2: Underground with a storming ten weeks at the top.
After this, there’s no change in the top four – with The Sims 2 at two, Pro Evolution Soccer 5 at three and FIFA 06 at four. Electronic Arts’ Rugby 06 debuts at five, giving EA four of the top five this week.
Ubi’s Rugby Challenge holds on to its number seven slot, proving that there is a significant demand for Rugby games at this time of year, coinciding with some big Rugger Bugger tournament that’s apparently going on somewhere (The Six Nations, we know, we know!).
GameCube software enjoyed a slight upturn in sales this last week, up 11% due to the release of Nintendo’s own Mario Party 7. Although tellingly, Mario Party 7 does not actually make it into the All Formats Top 40 at all – a sharp reminder of how peripheral the Gamecube has become in terms of software sales.
While Nintendo is certainly doing well of late in the PR war of words, and also with DS (Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time DS straight in at number ten) it's dropping behind considerably with GameCube in the bottom line sales war of filthy lucre.
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