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[ANALYSIS] by Dominic Sacco


FIFA STREET held on to its No.1 crown last week, selling around one and a half times more than its


closest competitor.


The football game spin-off gave EA its ninth All Formats No.1 of the year, despite the console title seeing a 44 per cent sales drop week-on-week.


CAPCOM new release Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City debuted at No.2, comfortably ahead of EA’s other Top Five games and previous chart- toppers – Mass Effect 3 at No.3, FIFA 12at No.4 and SSX at No.5. 60 per cent of Raccoon City’s sales were on Xbox 360 and 40 per cent on PS3.


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from ACTIVISION rose from No.10 to No.6 after its price was lowered. This saw week-on- week sales jump 12 per cent.


NINTENDO’s self-proclaimed biggest new 3DS release Kid Icarus: Uprisingflew straight into the Top Ten at No.7, while two other releases made an impact in the Top 40. PC strategy expansion Shogun 2: Total War – Fall of the Samurai from SEGA arrived at No.17 and TECMO KOEI’s action title Ninja Gaiden 3reached No.19.


This activity wasn’t enough to lift the UK games retail market. Revenue fell almost 30 per cent to £11.7m week-on-week, while just 481,739 units were sold – a drop of some 90,000 units. Next week doesn’t bode much better as High Street specialist GAME has closed 227 stores this week. But expect new Silent Hill, Just Danceand Ridge Racer games to make an impact.


Price promotions also helped give EA’s Battlefield 3and CODEMASTERS’ F1 2011a boost last week. They rose to No.8 and No.9 respectively, with sales increases of 31 per cent and 19 per cent.


58 March 30th 2012


New Entry Re-Entry


Week ending March 24th


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Source


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TOP 40 UK RETAIL ALL FORMATS 1 FIFA STREET


Formats: 360, PS3


This week


2 2


Last week


NEW Title RESIDENT EVIL: OPERATION RACOON CITY 360, PS3 32 MASS EFFECT 3 360, PS3, PC


44 FIFA 12 360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PC, PS2, 3DS 53 SSX 360, PS3 610 7


NEW 3


820 919 10 6 11 9 12 24 13 5 14 14 15 7


16 22 17


18 17 19


NEW Developer: EA Canada Publisher: EA Publisher


Capcom EA EA EA


CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3360, PS3, PC, Wii KID ICARUS: UPRISING 3DS BATTLEFIELD 3 360, PS3, PC F1 2011 PS Vita, 360, PS3


MARIO & SONIC AT THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES Wii, 3DS ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS 360, PS3, PC FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 360, PS3 MARIO PARTY 9 Wii


THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM 360, PS3, PC RAGE 360, PS3, PC


SAINTS ROW: THE THIRD 360, PS3, PC NEW


20 8 21 21 22 25 23 16 24


RE 5


25 15 26 23 27 26 28 29 29 28 30 13 31 11 32 31 33 35 34


RE


35 32 36 12 37 33 38 27 39 34 40 18


SHOGUN 2: TOTAL WAR FALL OF THE SAMURAI PC UNCHARTED 3: DRAKE’S DECEPTION PS3 NINJA GAIDEN 360, PS3 ZUMBA FITNESS 2 Wii


RAYMAN ORIGINS 360, PS3, Wii, PS Vita MOSHI MONSTERS: MOSHLING ZOO DS FORZA MOTORSPORT 4360 PORTAL 2 360, PS3, PC JUST DANCE 3 360, Wii


SKYLANDERS: SPYRO’S ADVENTURE 360, PS3, Wii, 3DS LEGO HARRY POTTER: YEARS 5-7 Wii, 360, DS, PS3 SUPER MARIO 3D LAND3DS UFC UNDISPUTED 3 360, PS3 ZUMBA FITNESS 2 Wii


STREET FIGHTER X TEKKEN PS3, 360 MARIO KART 7 3DS


SONIC GENERATIONS 3DS, PS3, 360, PC HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED ANNIVERSARY 360 LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN Wii, 3DS, DS, PS3 TWISTED METAL PS3


BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY 360, PS3, PC THE SIMS 3 3DS, Wii, 360, PC


METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION 360, PS3 THE SIMS 3: SHOWTIME PC


Activision Nintendo EA


Codemasters Sega


Ubisoft


Square Enix Nintendo Bethesda Bethesda THQ Sega Sony


Tecmo Koei 505 Games Ubisoft


Mind Candy/Activision Microsoft EA


Ubisoft Activision


Warner Bros Nintendo THQ


505 Games Capcom Nintendo Sega


Microsoft Disney Sony


Warner Bros EA


Konami EA


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