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PAL Charts - Week 37, 2009

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UK:

Originally Posted by Chart-Track:

14/Sep/2009

There are 6 new entries in the Top 40 this week, three of which make the Top 5, two of which constitute the games industry’s own ‘Battle of the Bands’ as ‘Guitar Hero 5’ and ‘The Beatles: Rock Band’ go head-to-head.

The new No1 is Activision Blizzard’s ‘Guitar Hero 5’ which is the first in the series to take an All Formats No1 placing – both ‘Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock’ and ‘Guitar Hero: World Tour’ (the fourth in the series) reached No4 on the All Formats Chart. Codemasters debut at No2 with ‘Colin McRae: Dirt 2’, one place higher than that achieved by the original ‘Colin McRae: Dirt’ back in week 25, 2007. Eidos’ ‘Batman: Arkham Assylum’ drops from No1 to No3 (-60%) and at No4 we have the last of the big 3 new entries, EA’s ‘The Beatles: Rock Band’ debuts higher than the highest position achieved by either of the previous Rock Band titles (record for this series held by original ‘Rock Band’, No6 in week 21, 2008).

505 Games’ ‘IL2 Sturmovik’ has a storming second week, down just one position to No7 as sales only drop 3% over the initial week. The other new entries this week are Eidos’s ‘Championship Manager 2010’ at No13 (Beautiful Game Studios), Eidos’ ‘Mini Ninjas’ at No15 (IO Interactive, of ‘Hitman’/’Kane & Lynch’ fame - Magic Pockets DS version only) and South Peak Games’ ‘Section 8’ debuting at No22 (Timegate Studios).
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Week 37, 2009 - Individual Formats (Units)

01 (__) 360 Colin Mcrae: Dirt 2 (Codemasters)
02 (__) 360 Guitar Hero 5 (Activision Blizzard)
03 (04) WII Wii Fit (Nintendo)
04 (03) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
05 (01) 360 Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)
06 (02) PS3 Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)
07 (__) PS3 Colin Mcrae: Dirt 2 (Codemasters)
08 (__) 360 The Beatles: Rock Band (Electronic Arts)
09 (__) PS3 Guitar Hero 5 (Activision Blizzard)
10 (07) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
11 (__) WII Guitar Hero 5 (Activision Blizzard)
12 (__) WII The Beatles: Rock Band (Electronic Arts)
13 (__) PS3 The Beatles: Rock Band (Electronic Arts)
14 (__) PC Championship Manager 2010 (Eidos)
15 (11) PS3 Il2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey (505 Games)
16 (05) PSP Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Square Enix Europe)
17 (12) 360 Il2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey (505 Games)
18 (08) WII Ashes Cricket 2009 (Codemasters)
19 (10) 360 Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
20 (06) PS3 Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
21 (21) NDS Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
22 (22) NDS Professor Layton And The Curious Village (Nintendo)
23 (13) PC The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)
24 (17) 360 Fight Night Round 4 (Electronic Arts)
25 (14) PS3 Fight Night Round 4 (Electronic Arts)
26 (20) 360 Tiger Woods Pga Tour 10 (Electronic Arts)
27 (27) PS3 Killzone 2 (Sony Computer Ent.)
28 (__) 360 Section 8 (South Peak Games)
29 (26) NDS Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)
30 (19) WII Wii Play (Nintendo)
31 (09) PS3 Call Of Duty: World At War (Activision Blizzard)
32 (16) PS3 Tiger Woods Pga Tour 10 (Electronic Arts)
33 (18) PS3 Call Of Juarez: Bound In Blood (Ubisoft)
34 (33) 360 Sega Superstars Tennis (Sega)
35 (24) PS3 Littlebigplanet (Sony Computer Ent.)
36 (32) 360 Halo 3 (Microsoft)
37 (30) WII Ea Sports Active (Electronic Arts)
38 (40) NDS 42 All-time Classics (Nintendo)
39 (35) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
40 (__) NDS Mystery Stories (Gsp/avanquest)


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Ireland:
Week 37, 2009 - Entertainment Software (All Prices)

01 (01) Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)
02 (__) The Beatles: Rock Band (Electronic Arts)
03 (__) Guitar Hero 5 (Activision Blizzard)
04 (__) Colin Mcrae: Dirt 2 (Codemasters)
05 (03) Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
06 (04) Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
07 (02) Tiger Woods Pga Tour 10 (Electronic Arts)
08 (16) Il2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey (505 Games)
09 (11) Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Square Enix Europe)
10 (05) Fight Night Round 4 (Electronic Arts)
11 (09) Wii Fit (Nintendo)
12 (06) Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
13 (10) Call Of Duty: World At War (Activision Blizzard)
14 (12) Grand Theft Auto Iv (Take 2)
15 (__) 42 All-time Classics (Nintendo)
16 (__) Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
17 (15) Call Of Juarez: Bound In Blood (Ubisoft)
18 (07) Wolfenstein (Activision Blizzard)
19 (__) Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams (Empire Interactive)
20 (14) Quantum Of Solace (Activision Blizzard)


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Denmark:
Week 37, 2009 - Entertainment Software (All Prices)

01 (02) Pixeline 11: Stjernestøv (Krea Medie)
02 (06) Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
03 (09) Guitar Hero: World Tour (Activision Blizzard)
04 (01) Singstar Summer Party (Nordisk Film)
05 (__) Guitar Hero 5 (Activision Blizzard)
06 (15) Wii Fit (Nintendo)
07 (__) Guitar Hero Iii: Legends Of Rock (Activision Blizzard)
08 (10) Fifa 09 (Electronic Arts)
09 (07) Batman: Arkham Asylum (Ubisoft)
10 (18) Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
11 (19) Tiger Woods Pga Tour 10 (Electronic Arts)
12 (13) Counter-strike: Source (Electronic Arts)
13 (11) The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)
14 (__) The Beatles: Rock Band (Electronic Arts)
15 (12) G-force (K.e. Media)
16 (16) Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
17 (__) Colin Mcrae: Dirt 2 (Atari)
18 (__) World Of Warcraft: Wrath Of Lich King (Activision Blizzard)
19 (__) Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
20 (__) Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)


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Netherlands:
Week 37, 2009

01 (01) [WII] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
02 (04) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
03 (05) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
04 (02) [PS3] Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)
05 (__) [PSP] Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Square Enix Europe)
06 (08) [PS3]Grand Theft Auto 4 (Take 2)
07 (06) [PC] The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)
08 (03) [360] Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)
09 (__) [WII] Metroid Prime Trilogy (Nintendo)
10 (07) [WII] Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)


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France:
Week 36, 2009

01 (01) [WII] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
02 (02) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
03 (03) [PS3] Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)
04 (04) [360] Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)
05 (05) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)



Week 36
Week 35
Week 34
Week 33
Week 32
 
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Spain:
August 2009

01 (01) [WII] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
02 (02) [PC] The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)
03 (03) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
04 (05) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
05 (__) [PS3] Killzone 2 (Sony Computer Ent.)
06 (04) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
07 (__) [NDS] Up (Thq )
08 (__) [PS3] Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks)
09 (06) [NDS] Professor Layton And The Curious Village (Nintendo)
10 (__) [PS3] WWE Smackdown! vs. Raw 2009 (Thq )


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Italy :



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Norway:



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Finland:
Week 35 + 36, 2009 - All Formats

01 (01) Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)
02 (01) Singstar SuomiPop (Sony)
03 (02) Grand Theft Auto IV (Take 2)
04 (04) Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
05 (06) Wolfenstein (Activision-Blizzard)
06 (05) The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)
07 (__) Rock Band 2 (Electronic Arts)
08 (03) Guitar Hero: Metallica (Activision Blizzard)
09 (08) Guitar Hero World Tour (Activision-Blizzard)
10 (__) Counter-Strike: Source (Electronic Arts)


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Sweden :
Week 36, 2008

01 (03) [WII] Wii Sports: Resort
02 (02) [PS3] Batman Arkham Asylum
03 (01) [360] Batman Arkham Asylum
04 (04) [PC] The Sims 3
05 (11) [PS3] Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
06 (__) [PC] Champions Online
07 (05) [PC] World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
08 (__) [PSP] Final Fantasy Dissidia
09 (09) [PS3] Call of Duty: World at War
10 (__) [PS3] Little Big Planet
11 (06) [360] Call of Duty: World at War
12 (07) [PC] World of Warcraft
13 (13) [PC] Counter-Strike 1: Anthology
14 (16) [NDS] Pokémon Platinum
15 (10) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros
16 (17) [WII] Mario Kart Wii
17 (__) [Wii] Metroid Prime Trilogy
18 (19) [PC] Counter-Strike Source
19 (18) [PC] Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
20 (15) [360] Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Week 37, 2009

01 (__) [360] Guitar Hero 5
02 (__) [PS3] Guitar Hero 5
03 (__) [PS3] Colin McRae Dirt 2
04 (01) [WII] Wii Sports: Resort
05 (__) [360] Colin McRae Dirt 2
06 (__) [PS2] Guitar Hero 5
07 (04) [PC] The Sims 3
08 (__) [360] The Beatles Rock Band
09 (__) [WII] Guitar Hero 5
10 (02) [PS3] Batman Arkham Asylum
11 (03) [360] Batman Arkham Asylum
12 (07) [PC] World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
13 (10) [PS3] Little Big Planet
14 (05) [PS3] Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
15 (12) [PC] World of Warcraft
16 (15) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros
17 (__) [WII] Punch-Out
18 (13) [PC] Counter-Strike 1: Anthology
19 (08) [PSP] Final Fantasy Dissidia
20 (__) [PS3] The Beatles Rock Band


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Germany:
Week 37, 2009

01 (01) [WII] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
02 (02) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
03 (__) [PS3] Colin McRae Dirt 2 (Codemasters)
04 (04) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
05 (05) [NDS] Pokemon Platinum (Nintendo)
06 (06) [PSP] Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Square Enix Europe)
07 (08) [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
08 (03) [PS3] Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)
09 (__) [360] Colin McRae Dirt 2 (Codemasters)
10 (__) [WII] Ea Sports Active (Electronic Arts)


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Australia:
Week 37, 2009

01 (01) [WII] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
02 (02) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
03 (03) [PS3] Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)
04 (04) [360] Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)
05 (05) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
06 (06) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
07 (__) [360] The Beatles: Rock Band (Electronic Arts)
08 (__) [PS3] The Beatles: Rock Band (Electronic Arts)
09 (__) [WII] The Beatles: Rock Band (Electronic Arts)
10 (__) [PSP] NRL Rugby League Challenge (Sony)


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New Zealand :



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EA’s ‘The Beatles: Rock Band’ debuts higher than the highest position achieved by either of the previous Rock Band titles (record for this series held by original ‘Rock Band’, No6 in week 21, 2008).
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Well, I suppose that's a silver lining for the most depressing sales information in video game history.
 
rock band brand is non existent here in europe, i'm sorry you thought otherwise. EA probably tried to marry it with beatles to give it higher visibility here in PAL lands (being beatles an english band well known in the whole europe), but it just wasn't enough.

opening that low when beatles news were in every news for the past weeks due to their relaunch is just pathetic.

considering we're talking about england, other europeans countries will see even less sales from rock band: beatles.
 
°°ToMmY°° said:
rock band brand is non existent here in europe, i'm sorry you thought otherwise. EA probably tried to marry it with beatles to give it higher visibility here in PAL lands (being beatles an english band well known in the whole europe), but it just wasn't enough.

opening that low when beatles news were in every news for the past weeks due to their relaunch is just pathetic.

considering we're talking about england, other europeans countries will see even less sales from rock band: beatles.
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This is true - many people probably don't realise they can play it with their existing GH controller too.

If it was Guitar Hero: Beatles, I reckon it'd have been #1.
 
°°ToMmY°° said:
rock band brand is non existent here in europe, i'm sorry you thought otherwise. EA probably tried to marry it with beatles to give it higher visibility here in PAL lands (being beatles an english band well known in the whole europe), but it just wasn't enough.

opening that low when beatles news were in every news for the past weeks due to their relaunch is just pathetic.

considering we're talking about england, other europeans countries will see even less sales from rock band: beatles.
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No need to apologize to me. I'm not the one who didn't buy the awesome game.
 
I love the Beatles but my first thought when I saw the game for the first time was that it would be too easy. I'm aware that its not and they've made some songs quite a challenge, but when I think of the Beatles I think of three or four chord pop songs... whereas Guitar Hero was always about working your way up to being able to colour co-ordinate insane riffs to some Dragonforce song or something. I wonder if that perception is a factor in people holding off?

No mention of hardware or anything this week
 
radioheadrule83 said:
I love the Beatles but my first thought when I saw the game for the first time was that it would be too easy. I'm aware that its not and they've made some songs quite a challenge, but when I think of the Beatles I think of three or four chord pop songs... whereas Guitar Hero was always about working your way up to being able to colour co-ordinate insane riffs to some Dragonforce song or something. I wonder if that perception is a factor in people holding off?

No mention of hardware or anything this week
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I think that the expectation was that it would appeal to an untapped audience that was less concerned with such bombastic frippery.
 
Defuser said:
Damn you UK,you rather support some hack's music game than your own country's band game.
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It's all good, really. Paul McCartney needs to be shown a lesson so he can come down a peg or two. Both him and his choice of women annoy me somewhat.

Unfortunately they just had a record breaking album chart mulit-entry with their remasters though. I say unfortunately, because in Paul's "me me me" head they're all solo albums.
 
pswii60 said:
It's all good, really. Paul McCartney needs to be shown a lesson so he can come down a peg or two. Both him and his choice of women annoy me somewhat.
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Yeah. He needs to knocked down a peg. It's not like he was in The Beatles or anything.

Or wait, was he in that band?

;D
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
Yeah. He needs to knocked down a peg. It's not like he was in The Beatles or anything.

Or wait, was he in that band?

;D
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The problem is that Paul thinks he WAS the band.
 
TV has been plastered with Guitar Hero 5 adverts, haven't seen any for Rockband Beatles, so its as simple as that. Companies need to just accept if they dont TV advertise they don't sell.

EA ruined the Rockband brand over here as well by releasing it a year late and at a hefty price and then releasing the sequel not too long after.
 
pswii60 said:
The problem is that Paul thinks he WAS the band.
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I don't know about that. I watched All Together Now this weekend and he frequently acknowledged the contributions of four other people in fact, even going so far as to include George Martin's impact.
 
McBradders said:
Well with only him and Ringo left that's actually true now.


Hahah see what I did there? I'm fucking hilarious, me.

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lulz

Here on NeoGAF, we're all contributing far more to society, culture and arts than Paul McCartney ever has. We should be proud.
BenjaminBirdie said:
I don't know about that. I watched All Together Now this weekend and he frequently acknowledged the contributions of four other people in fact, even going so far as to include George Martin's impact.
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Shush! I don't like him and that's that. :p
 
here in the UK it seems the people behind the Beatles machine are pushing the band heavily at the moment but the game is getting little mention, I think they will start advertising it close to christmas perhaps.
 
SecretBonusPoint said:
TV has been plastered with Guitar Hero 5 adverts, haven't seen any for Rockband Beatles, so its as simple as that. Companies need to just accept if they dont TV advertise they don't sell.

EA ruined the Rockband brand over here as well by releasing it a year late and at a hefty price and then releasing the sequel not too long after.
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EA definitely had something to do with killing the establishment of the brand over here. They can only blame themselves.

Though I have seen a few ads for Beatles plus it was on the news. Wasn't aware GH5 came out last week.
 
i've seen shit tonnes of gh 5 advertisement over here butt ive also seen a decent amount of beatles ads.

i think we can only hope that the beatles have nice long legs.
 
"The Beatles" is the brand. Not "Rock Band".

It's sales are pretty much down to awareness. It's not like people think "The Beatles ROCK BAND? Fuck, that game is so shitty, I've never heard of it!"
 
TheGreatDave said:
"The Beatles" is the brand. Not "Rock Band".

It's sales are pretty much down to awareness. It's not like people think "The Beatles ROCK BAND? Fuck, that game is so shitty, I've never heard of it!"
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Exactly. There's no way to spin this except that there's just minimal interest in the game itself.
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
Exactly. There's no way to spin this except that there's just minimal interest in the game itself.
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Which is why you should not rule out the possibility of being happy when the NPDs come out. Correct me if I'm wrong, but MTV are eager to reignite BEATLEMANIA over there, where as here, I've heard next to nothing about the game.
 
TheGreatDave said:
Which is why you should not rule out the possibility of being happy when the NPDs come out. Correct me if I'm wrong, but MTV are eager to reignite BEATLEMANIA over there, where as here, I've heard next to nothing about the game.
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I've ruled out the possibility of ever being happy again.
 
Guitar Hero 5 sold more on PS3 than on Wii.
The Beatles: Rock Band sold more on Wii than on PS3.

Wii fans have better taste confirmed?
 
The gap with Dirt 2 is a little strange as I was expecting them a lot closer,maybe even PS3 higher, with Forza 3 almost with us.
 
The people who make up a large chunk of the videogame playing demographic (specifically console gamers) probably have minimal interest in the Beatles compared to the world at large.
 
I do think the Beatles Rock Band will end up having longer legs than Guitar Hero.

Pretty good showing overall, Wii Sports Resort and Batman Arkham Asylum hanging on tight!
 
Dynoro said:
The gap with Dirt 2 is a little strange as I was expecting them a lot closer,maybe even PS3 higher, with Forza 3 almost with us.
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Why would one thing have to do with the other? As someone who likes racing games, I usually buy all the good ones and then just dip into which ever one I am currently inclined to. I still play PGR 4, etc.
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
Why would one thing have to do with the other? As someone who likes racing games, I usually buy all the good ones and then just dip into which ever one I am currently inclined to. I still play PGR 4, etc.
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As an example I will not be buying Dirt 2, Forza 3 and GT5 as 3 racing games in 3 months is too much for me. I will buy at most two; so Dirt 2 loses out a sale as its too close to Forza 3.
 
Chinner said:
Good night... Good night, everybody... Everybody, everywhere... Good night.
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And in the end...
Beatles Rock Band sales...
Are not even equal to
The sales...
Of Guitar Hero 5....
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aaaaAHHHHHHHHHH

:(
 
Cursed Mountain up from No.9 to No.8 on the Wii only charts. Surprisingly good!
 
EatChildren said:
Cursed Mountain up from No.9 to No.8 on the Wii only charts. Surprisingly good!
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Is that game actually any good? I keep hearing the name a lot but what little I've seen of recent media makes it appear rather blah.


Batman and Wii Sports: Resort are still riding high and I hope to contribute to both of those soon saleswise. Yay good games!
 
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