RETAIL CHARTS
[RETAIL ANALYSIS] by Christopher Dring
IN WHAT WAS a very quiet week for games retail, 505 GAMES held firm at No.1 with Sniper Elite V2.
The shooter suffered a 38 per cent dip in sales, but held off fierce competition from EA’s FIFA Street, which benefitted from some soccer excitement caused by the finale of the Premier League. The game’s sales rose ten per cent and it climbed two places.
It was a very tough seven days for games retail all round, with the market’s weekly value plunging to under £8.5m, the lowest it has been for well over a decade. There were a handful of small new releases, the biggest of which was SONY’s online shooter Starhawk. The game is the spiritual successor to the popular Warhawk, but could only manage No.17 (No.5 on the PS3 full price chart).
Prototype 2from ACTIVISION slips to fourth position following a 53 per cent drop in sales. However, the remainder of the Top Ten remains stationary week-on-week except for No.10 – Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. The UBISOFT title (which is now classed as a budget game) climbs five place to nudge past Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 by just 100 copies sold.
The only other new entry is the DEEP SILVER-published TELLTALE game Back to The Future: The Gameat No.38. This game was released the week before, but made the Top 40 due to a 39 per cent sales rise.
Meanwhile, SQUARE ENIX’s Hitman: Absolutionmakes an impact in the pre-order charts (on page 43) thanks to its innovative pre-order initiative which gives fans a free slice of the game. But the real pre- order king is ROCKSTAR as the hype builds for Max Payne 3 (out today).
38 May 18th 2012
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Week ending May 12th
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TOP 40 UK RETAIL CHARTS 1
SNIPER ELITE V2 Formats: PS3, 360, PC
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Title 24 FIFA STREET 360, PS3, PC
33 FIFA 12 360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PC, PS2, 3DS 42 PROTOTYPE 2 360, PS3 55 MASS EFFECT 3 360, PS3, PC
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66 TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 13 360, PS3 77 KINECT STAR WARS 360
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88 MARIO & SONIC AT THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES Wii, 3DS 99 BATTLEFIELD 3 360, PS3, PC 10 15 11 10 12 12 13 13 14 14 15 11 16 16 17
ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS 360, PS3, PC CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3 PS3, 360, PC, Wii THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM 360, PS3, PC SAINTS ROW: THE THIRD 360, PS3, PC
SKYLANDERS: SPYRO’S ADVENTURE 360, PS3, Wii, 3DS BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY 360, PS3, PC
NEW 4 5
18 25 19 17 20 27 21 36 22 21 23 24 24 19 25 29 26 18 27 26 28 20 29 23 30 22 31 30 32 39 33 28 34 32 35 35
THE WITCHER 2: ASSASSINS OF KINGS 360, PC STARHAWK PS3
FOOTBALL MANAGER 2012 PC, PSP SSX 360, PS3
FORZA MOTORSPORT 4 360 FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 PS3, 360
RAYMAN ORIGINS 360, PS3, Wii, PS Vita ZUMBA FITNESS Wii, 360, PS3 GRAN TURISMO 5 PS3
LEGO HARRY POTTER: YEARS 5-7 Wii, 360, DS, PS3 MOSHI MONSTERS: MOSHLING ZOO DS JUST DANCE 3 360, Wii, PS3 UFC UNDISPUTED 3 360, PS3 THE SIMS 3 PC, 3DS, 360, Wii SUPER MARIO 3D LAND3DS WWE ‘12 360, PS3, Wii
GRAND THEFT AUTO IV EPISODES FROM LIBERTY CITY 360, PS3, PC MARIO PARTY 9 Wii MARIO KART 7 3DS SKATE 3 360, PS3
36 31 UNCHARTED 3: DRAKE’S DECEPTION PS3 37 38 MARIO KART WII Wii 38
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BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE GAME Wii F1 2011 PS Vita, 360, PS3
SONIC GENERATIONS 360, PS3, 3DS, PC
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