RETAIL CHART ANALYSIS: SEPTEMBER
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GTA steals September
At long last some big, positive news for UK games retail. Rockstar and EA dominated physical sales as the UK games market returned to growth. Christopher Dring studies the figures
THIS MO LAST MO
SOFTWARE SHARE BY FORMAT (UNITS) 11 –
Xbox 360
22 – 33 – 44 –
PlayStation 3 PC
3DS
56 Wii 65 DS 78 Vita 87 Wii U 99 –
PSP THIS MO LAST MO
SOFTWARE SHARE BY FORMAT (VALUE) 11 –
22 –
Xbox 360 PS3
34 PC 43 3DS 56 Wii 67 Wii U 75 DS 88 – 99 –
AFTER MONTHS of ‘lowest ever’ market figures, the UK boxed games industry returned to growth in a spectacular way last month. And it was entirely down to GTA V. Launched mid-way through September, the action game sold over 2.6m in two weeks, and as a result ROCKSTAR accounted for over half of the UK software market value last month. Xbox 360 is the UK’s No.1 games console so it’s no surprise that 56 per cent of all GTA Vs sold were on Microsoft’s platform versus 44 per cent on PS3. But actually that figure is a lot closer than usual. FIFA 14(at No.2), Saints Row IV(at No.3), Splinter Cell: Blacklist (at No.4) and Diablo III (at No.5) saw 60 per cent or more of their sales come on Xbox 360. The reason PS3 enjoyed more share for GTA V than usual is down to a co-marketing deal between SONY and Rockstar, which included a hardware bundle. At No.2 was the month’s other blockbuster, FIFA 14. The game actually performed a little better than MCVhad
PS3 – FULL PRICE 1 Grand Theft Auto V 2 FIFA 14
3 Saints Row IV 4 The Last of Us
predicted, although sales are still almost a quarter down over the previous year. FIFA 14is a game that will initially suffer from the upcoming launch of Xbox One and PS4, which are getting their own versions of the game. In fact, pre-orders of Xbox One come
FIFA 14 sales were down almost a quarter, but it performed better than we had expected.
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with a free copy of the soccer sim. So some fans will have held off. With so much on FIFAand GTA V, there is barely enough time to talk about the success of Saints Row IV. The game racked up four No.1s in total and is the third DEEP SILVER game to top the charts this year.
INDIVIDUAL FORMAT TOP 10S
Rockstar Games EA
Deep Silver Sony
5 Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix Square Enix 6 Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist Ubisoft 7
8 Diablo III
9 Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 10 Disney Infinity
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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Square Enix Blizzard Konami Disney
XBOX 360 – FULL PRICE 1 Grand Theft Auto V 2 FIFA 14
3 Saints Row IV
6 Disney Infinity 7 Payday 2
8 Call of Duty: Black Ops II 9 Farming Simulator 2013 10 Rayman Legends
Rockstar Games EA
Deep Silver
4 Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist Ubisoft 5 Diablo III
Blizzard Disney
505 Games Activision Focus
Ubisoft
WII – FULL PRICE 1
WII U Disney Infinity
2 Skylanders Giants 3 Just Dance 4 4 FIFA 14
5 Mario Kart Wii
6 New Super Mario Bros Wii 7 Wii Party
8 Mario Party 9
9 Zumba Fitness Core 10 Super Mario Galaxy 2
Disney
Activision Ubisoft EA
Nintendo Nintendo Nintendo Nintendo
505 Games Nintendo
1 Rayman Legends 2 Disney Infinity 3 Nintendo Land 4 Pikmin 3
5 New Super Luigi U 6 The Wonderful 101
7 New Super Mario Bros U 8 LEGO City Undercover
Ubisoft Disney
Nintendo Nintendo Nintendo Nintendo Nintendo Nintendo
9 Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist Ubisoft 10 Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Sega
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PS Vita PSP
SOFTWARE BY PUBLISHER (UNITS) THIS MO LAST MO
15 Take-Two 21 EA 32 Koch Media 43 Ubisoft 57 Activision 64 Nintendo 712 Square Enix 811 Sega 910 Disney Infinity 10 9 Sony
SOFTWARE BY PUBLISHER (VALUE) THIS MO LAST MO
17 Take-Two 24 EA 31 Koch Media 43 Ubisoft 55 –
£187.2m Activision Blizzard
62 Nintendo 713 Square Enix 86 Sony 912 Sega 10 10 –
Disney Interactive
SOFTWARE SHARE BY DEVELOPER (VALUE) THIS MO LAST MO
114 Rockstar North 27 EA Canada 31 Volition 42 Ubisoft Toronto 565 Blizzard 6New Square Enix 712 Avalanche Software 85 Naughty Dog 977 Creative Assembly 10 3 Nintendo
The amount of money generated by boxed game sales in the UK during September
59.6%
Rockstar-developed games accounted for almost 60 per cent of every physical game sold last month
73.5%
EA and Take-Two accounted for almost three quarters of all games sold
54.3% 40.3% 1.8% 1.3% 0.8% 0.5% 0.5% 0.4% 0%
2.6m
Grand Theft Auto V accounted for most of the games sold last month
5.3%
The combined market share of PC, 3DS, Wii, Wii U, DS, Vita and PSP
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