Konami’s ‘Pro Evolution Soccer 2009’ kicks ‘FIFA 09’ down to No2 as EA’s 2 week reign at the top of the All Formats chart ends with a 54% dip in ‘FIFA 09’ sales.

The PS3 version of ‘PES 2009’ makes the most of the two week wait for the PS2 version, claiming 58% of sales, while Xbox 360 accounts for 40% and PC 2%. Last year the PS2 version was the top seller with 42%, then 30% for Xbox 360, 26% for PS3 and 2% for PC. Konami can’t match FIFA’s exceptional launch week with sales across all three formats not able to overturn FIFA 09’s Xbox 360 debut week. Last year the Xbox 360 launch weeks were neck and neck, but this time around Xbox 360 FIFA’s launch has sold 2.66 times more than that of PES. The launch of PES on Xbox 360 is lower than last year’s game, however the PS3 version’s launch week is up 39%. THQ can celebrate a successful Xbox 360 launch of ‘Saints Row 2’ which sits comfortably behind ‘FIFA 09’ at No3 with 73% of sales on Xbox 360 and 27% on PS3.

The Xbox 360 version of ‘Saints Row 2’ is only 5,000 units behind PES 2009 at No2 in the Xbox 360 Full Price Chart. ‘Lego Batman’ makes way for ‘PES 2009’ and ‘Saints Row 2’ by dropping 2 places to No4, while ‘Wii Fit’ also falls 2 places to No5. ‘Mario Kart Wii’, a non-mover at No6, joins ‘Wii Fit’ as the only All Formats Top 10 games to increase in sales, while ‘Star Wars: The Force Unleashed’ and ‘Brothers in Arms: Hells’ Highway’ lose 35% and 41% of sales respectively, down to No’s 7 and 10. There is a re-entry for ‘Bioshock’ at No14 thanks to a much later launch of the PS3 version.

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iceatcs said:

Oh wow, PS3 came first in Multiplatform. Is it first time?

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iceatcs said:

Oh wow, PS3 came first in Multiplatform. Is it first time?

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iceatcs said:

Oh wow, PS3 came first in Multiplatform. Is it first time?

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pswii60 said:

Have 360 owners got something against Pro Evo all of a sudden?

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Last year the Xbox 360 launch weeks [for PES and FIFA] were neck and neck, but this time around Xbox 360 FIFA’s launch has sold 2.66 times more than that of PES. The launch of PES on Xbox 360 is lower than last year’s game.

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It’s the biggest ever launch of a FIFA game with EA’s ‘FIFA 09’ outselling last year’s game by 37.5%.
42% of sales were on Xbox 360, making it the 3rd fastest selling game on Microsoft’s format (behind GTA IV and Halo 3)

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Taurus said:

17 out of 40 Wii games.

What holiday is it in UK?

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pswii60 said:

Well, it did for Pro Evo, which is interesting considering the 360 versions of Saints Row, FIFA 09, Lego Batman, Brothers in Arms and Star Wars Force Unleashed all bettered the PS3 versions. Have 360 owners got something against Pro Evo all of a sudden?

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doicare said:

It's the one where only 4 ds games charted.

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Phife Dawg said:

Just wanted to drop this, didn't think it would warrant a new thread:

According to Gamefront (who are citing media control) third quarter (console) software percentages in Germany are as follows:
1. DS: 36.4% (1.4 million pieces of software, third quarter 2007: 1.2m)
2. PS2: 17.4%
3. Wii: 15%
4. PS3: 10.8% (quadrupled in comparison to third quarter 2007, they didn't differentiate between total numbers or percentages though, but I'd guess they mean total numbers)
5. 360: 7%

So PSP below 7%, wonder to what plattforms the rest of the software sales went. GC, XBox, NGage? :lol

Top selling software for the third quarter:
1. WiiFit
2. Mario Kart Wii
3. Super Smash Brothers Brawl
4. Brain Training :lol

SSBB is quite a surprise, SSBM wasn't really that popular around here.

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SovanJedi said:

Enh, nevermind. Guess it's not a good idea to prod an already sore topic.

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doicare said:

:lol what??? What i am saying is something significant has happend to the ds. For years on end the ds was getting 10-16 games into the chart every week without fail, but now the ds for the past couple of weeks has only managed to get 4 games to chart. You don't just go from years of 10-16 games charting to only 4 charting for no reason. Either the ds hardware or ds software has supply issues whcih has caused this. So because their are 10 or so less ds that are charting that means the other consoles have more games charting instead when normally they wouldn't.

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doicare said:

It's the one where only 4 ds games charted.

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Feral Youth said:

Ahh, edited option files won that battle then.

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doicare said:

:lol what??? What i am saying is something significant has happend to the ds. For years on end the ds was getting 10-16 games into the chart every week without fail, but now the ds for the past couple of weeks has only managed to get 4 games to chart. You don't just go from years of 10-16 games charting to only 4 charting for no reason. Either the ds hardware or ds software has supply issues which has caused this. So because their are 10 or so less ds games that are charting that means the other consoles have more games charting instead when normally they wouldn't.

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SovanJedi said:

Well if you insist, I find it's rather telling that your focus has shifted from using this vague and inconsequential argument for the Wii and moved it to the DS - another piece of Nintendo hardware, and one which has already instilled itself in the realms of solid software sales irrespective of whatever the other consoles and handhelds are doing.

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doicare said:

My focus hasn't shifted at all, i've always been talking about the wii, people such as Taurus troll on a weekly basis whenever the amount of wii games that chart is high, if he bothered looking at the weighted chart when it comes out he would see the wii still significantly lower then what it was during the summer anyway. The wii for the past few weeks has been signifcantly high because so few ds games have charted and that's due to either ds hardware or ds software supply issues. I am still talking about the wii but to explain it i have to talk about the ds and it's lack of games charting because that is the main reason the wii has so many games charting in the past few weeks.

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doicare said:

:lol what??? What i am saying is something significant has happend to the ds. For years on end the ds was getting 10-16 games into the chart every week without fail, but now the ds for the past couple of weeks has only managed to get 4 games to chart. You don't just go from years of 10-16 games charting to only 4 charting for no reason, either the ds hardware or ds software has supply issues which has caused this. So because their are 10 or so less ds games that are charting that means the other consoles have more games charting instead when normally they wouldn't.

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Parl said:

Could be either;

1) DS software sales have gone down due to sudden less demand.
2) Software sales for other consoles have gone up.
3) Shortages.

I have no evidence directly for or against 1.

As for 2, there's been a hell of a lot of new multiplatform games released recently (games that typically so very poorly on DS), and as these games are multiplatform, they take up lots of spots on the charts. From this, it's possible DS software sales have remained stable, and currently, software sales for other systems have increased a lot due recent multiplatform releases - we'll have to see the effect on the charts as these many new SKUs slip off of the charts.

As for 3, I have very little evidence either way. I did notice that 4 of the 6 DS Lite colours in my local Asda were sold out last time I went in (which will have an effect on software sales) - never noticed that before. Nintendo could potentially be stocking up for Christmas, but we cannot rely on my one anecdote.

The explanation could be a combination of the above also. We'll have to see, but I'm a long, long way from making a judgement of DS software sales stability, as we don't get many hard numbers.

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Jokeropia said:

360 got 42% of FIFA launch sales and 40% of PES launch sales. The 360's FIFA launch was 2.66 times bigger than it's PES launch, so FIFA sold 2.53 times more (across all formats) in it's launch week than PES did.

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however the PS3 version’s launch week is up 39%.

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Francias Castiglione said:

FIFA won that battle. By a HUGE margin.

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RJT said:

Maybe people are waiting for the superior PES Wii version?

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Facism said:

Considering the 360-exclusive advertising, i'm shocked.

Shocked!

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Facism said:

Considering the 360-exclusive advertising, i'm shocked.

Shocked!

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Atreides said:

Perhaps DS software is lower this week. But I think that the most important factor is lots of news games, that have taken a lot of spots in the top 40. DS games usually had the lower part of the charts if you look to other weeks. And this week, we have these new or recently released games in the top 40:

3 x Pro evolution
5 x Fifa
2 x Saint Rows
4 x Lego Batman (not counting the DS one)
1 x Bioshock

They take 15 spots, and there are probably more new games taking more spots.

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cjelly said:

It's quite funny really, because PS3 fans will have places like Germany, Spain, France and Italy as their stronghold. When in actual fact Nintendo are just kicking everyones arse the whole world over.

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spwolf said:

Werent the 360 and PS3 sales split only by few %?

It seems what happened was that 360 owners went with FIFA, while PS3 owners went for both :lol

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Frillen said:

Still doesn't explain why there are 17 Wii games in the top 40.

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Sleeker said:

What is driving Halo 3 up?

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cjelly said:

It's quite funny really, because PS3 fans will have places like Germany, Spain, France and Italy as their stronghold. When in actual fact Nintendo are just kicking everyones arse the whole world over.

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