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PAL Charts - Week 09, 2009

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Jaded Alyx

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Mojo said:
Geez, don't these people take a minute to research a game before buying it? smh
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I can't figure out how some of them state that they read reviews, and yet they still didn't know the game was on-rails.
 
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EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Jaded Alyx said:
I can't figure out how some of them state that they read reviews, and yet they still didn't know the game was on-rails.
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Or refer to it as "Die Hard".
 
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Rapping Granny

Banned
cjelly said:
It's quite cute how so many people are desperate for Killzone to be the next Halo.

Ain't gonna happen. That ship has long sailed. I would be surprised if Killzone even sells as well as either of the CoD games on PS3.
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:lol

Best PALcharts thread so far.
 
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methane47

Member
Mojo said:
Ehhh, just mentioning the difference between KZ and HW was apparently close enough that the added 360 sales pushed HW to the top. We're a small market y'know.
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Sooo you mean they really gave the game away for free? Wow.. Micrsoft really knows how to push their products well.
 
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Raist

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PS3 and 360 pretty much follow the same trend so far, and opposite of Wii's trend. Interesting.



My take on the Halo Wars sales.
When you see that in UK it has outsold the latest C&C (which is a well established, popular and very good RTS franchise) 3:1, it's quite significant.
Does it mean that a lot of Halo fans also are RTS fans? Doubtful IMO, but maybe, why not. Does it mean that a significant number of people bought it without knowing it was an RTS and because it had "Halo" in its title. I think so, yeah.
 
9

909er

Member
methane47 said:
Sooo you mean they really gave the game away for free? Wow.. Micrsoft really knows how to push their products well.
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It's not unheard of in Australia. A significant chunk of the PS3's userbase there comes from Sony giving them away with the Bravia deals. Whatever it takes the get their product out, I guess.
 
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Psychotext

Member
Raist said:
Does it mean that a lot of Halo fans also are RTS fans? Doubtful IMO, but maybe, why not. Does it mean that a significant number of people bought it without knowing it was an RTS and because it had "Halo" in its title. I think so, yeah.
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I don't know. I'm no great lover of RTS, and I didn't pick up C&C... but I did play the Halo Wars demo (yes, because it had Halo in the title) and thought it was great fun.

Not bought it yet though, but I will.
 
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mujun

Member
in regards to halo wars.

what is wrong with buying a spin off game because its a franchise you like?

why arent ppl mentioning the fact that the demo possibly helped sales?

stealth trolling?
 
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Burai

shitonmychest57
Raist said:
My take on the Halo Wars sales.
When you see that in UK it has outsold the latest C&C (which is a well established, popular and very good RTS franchise) 3:1, it's quite significant.
Does it mean that a lot of Halo fans also are RTS fans? Doubtful IMO, but maybe, why not. Does it mean that a significant number of people bought it without knowing it was an RTS and because it had "Halo" in its title. I think so, yeah.
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It should be quite easy to guage. If you're right, you'll find a lot of copies in the second hand section of GAME and Gamestation and sales will plummet off a cliff next week.
 
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Raist

Banned
Burai said:
It should be quite easy to guage. If you're right, you'll find a lot of copies in the second hand section of GAME and Gamestation and sales will plummet off a cliff next week.
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Not necessarily, if some people end up enjoying the game.

What I basically mean is that the Halo name certainly helped the sales a lot, and probably with a significant amount of people who had no idea of what a RTS is.

I mean, it's usually a pretty niche genre. RTS's don't quite light the charts on fire usually, even if they're established franchises like C&C.
 
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starsky

Member
This thread is like a real console warzone.

Regarding Halo Wars, I have no interest in Halo 3 but I'm interested in HW as it's an RTS game. And I hope the game sells well as it's nice to have more console RTS games.
 
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BruceLeeRoy

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Jaded Alyx said:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000INV4H2/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar

:lol :lol :lol
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:lol You win man.

Burai said:
It should be quite easy to guage. If you're right, you'll find a lot of copies in the second hand section of GAME and Gamestation and sales will plummet off a cliff next week.
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Yeah definitely. I expect the game to do great its a solid title regardless of if people are into RTS games or not and its easy enough to just pick up and play that I think it will convert more people than put off.
 
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bj00rn_

Banned
Psychotext said:
I don't know. I'm no great lover of RTS, and I didn't pick up C&C... but I did play the Halo Wars demo (yes, because it had Halo in the title) and thought it was great fun.

Not bought it yet though, but I will.
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I'm in the same scenario - Except that I bought Halo Wars. Anyway, yes; buy the game, it's IMO that good, somehow gave me that C&C-feeling that I've missed for a long time.
 
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dabra

Member
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Italy :
Week 08, 2009

01 [PS3] Street Fighter 4
02 [360] Street Fighter 4
03 [WII] Mario Kart Wii
04 [NDS] Professor Layton e Il Paese Dei Misteri
05 [PS2] PES 2009
06 [360] Race Pro
07 [WII] Wii Play
08 [WII] Wii Fit
09 [NDS] Brain Training
10 [PS3] PES 2009
11 [NDS] New Super Mario Bros.
12 [PS2] GTA San Andreas Platinum
13 [WII] Wii Music
14 [PS3] Guitar Hero 3 Bundle
15 [NDS] Cooking Mama 2

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Finland:
Week 07 + 08, 2009 - All Formats

01 (__) Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock (Activision-Blizzard)
02 (__) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Game Of The Year Edition (Activision-Blizzard)
03 (01) Grand Theft Auto IV (Take 2)
04 (09) Wii Fit (Nintendo)
05 (05) SingStar SuomiRock (Sony)
06 (07) NHL 09 (Electronic Arts)
07 (__) F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (Warner Bros.)
08 (02) Guitar Hero World Tour (Activision-Blizzard)
09 (03) Call of Duty: World at War (Activision-Blizzard)
10 (04) SingStar ABBA (Sony)
 
K

Karma

Banned
Mojo said:
The difference between KZ and HW was only a few thousand, so enough for it to change the top places around.

Also what a lot of people are doing is buying the console, and then trading Halo Wars in at EB, which they give a ridiculous $85 ($93 with EDGE) for the game (more than most stores are selling it), so you can use that to get basically any new release for free, or a couple of older releases. My friend bought a Pro and used HW to get Street Fighter 4 for free. Some EBs will even allow you to take the price of HW off the console making it AU$200 (US$127) for the Arcade.
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How do you know this?
 
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Kujo

Member
Karma said:
How do you know this?
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First I read a few days ago, may have been Kotaku, not 100%. 2nd, got a friend who works at EB here and what a lot of people are doing is trading in HW straight away after they buy the console, EB are giving like $80-$90 trade in for the game alone if you trade it in early, that's about 1/3 of the Arcade price here. It's also been mentioned at heaps of Aussie forums and bargain sites. Kinda tempting me to buy a 2nd 360, lol.
 
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dabra

Member
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France:
Week 08, 2009

01 (01) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
02 (__) [PS3] Street Fighter IV (Capcom)
03 (02) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
04 (__) [360] Street Fighter IV (Capcom)
05 (03) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
06 (07) [WII] Naruto Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 (Tomy)
07 (05) [WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
08 (__) [PS3] Street Fighter IV Edition Collector (Capcom)
09 (06) [WII] Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Ubisoft)
10 (__) [360] Race Pro (Atari)
 
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milanbaros

Member?
bttb said:
Total UK Software Sales
Source: ELSPA/ChartTrack and Intent Media
Code: 
			Sales Units	Sales Revenue
Week 1, 2009		 3,498,103	 £69,700,000
Week 2, 2009		 1,547,306	 £34,800,000
Week 3, 2009		 1,247,905	 £29,200,000
Week 4, 2009		 1,353,433	 £28,900,000
Week 5, 2009		 1,257,280	 £27,000,000
Week 6, 2009		   989,242	 £24,100,000
Week 7, 2009		 1,153,741	 £27,500,000
Week 8, 2009		 1,281,934	 £30,800,000
Week 9, 2009		 1,320,525	 £32,400,000
Total			13,649,469	£304,400,000
http://www.mcvuk.com/print-edition
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Any comparison to Japan?
 
C

Captain Smoker

Member
milanbaros said:
Any comparison to Japan?
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Code: 
[B]Week # 		Japan 		UK 		Total[/B]

Week 1 		2,957,024 	3,498,103 	6,455,127
Week 2 		1,225,455 	1,547,306 	2,772,761
Week 3 		1,149,569 	1,247,905 	2,397,474
Week 4 		964,796 	1,353,433 	2,318,229
Week 5 		1,377,429 	1,257,280 	2,634,709
Week 6 		928,436 	989,242 	1,917,678
Week 7 		1,192,863 	1,153,741 	2,346,604
Week 8 		1,106,143 	1,281,934 	2,388,077
Week 9 		1,456,972 	1,320,525 	2,777,497

[B]Total 		12,358,687 	13,649,469 	26,008,156[/B]


UK numbers include PC - software.
 
Randy Lanzarote

Randy Lanzarote

Member
- 1 EMPIRE: TOTAL WAR PC SEGA SEGA
1 2 KILLZONE 2 PS3 SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.
3 3 WII FIT WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
2 4 HALO WARS XB360 MICROSOFT MICROSOFT
5 5 PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE CURIOUS VILLAGE DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
- 6 TOM CLANCY'S H.A.W.X. XB360 UBISOFT UBISOFT
- 7 TOM CLANCY'S H.A.W.X. PS3 UBISOFT UBISOFT
8 8 WII PLAY WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
7 9 MARIO KART WII WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
6 10 STREET FIGHTER IV PS3 CAPCOM CAPCOM
4 11 STREET FIGHTER IV XB360 CAPCOM CAPCOM
12 12 MY FITNESS COACH WII GAMES FOR EVERYONE UBISOFT
15 13 CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR XB360 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
14 14 DR KAWASHIMA'S BRAIN TRAINING DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
- 15 MARIO POWER TENNIS WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
9 16 SEGA MEGA DRIVE ULTIMATE COLLECTION PS3 SEGA SEGA
11 17 SEGA MEGA DRIVE ULTIMATE COLLECTION XB360 SEGA SEGA
30 18 LITTLEBIGPLANET PS3 SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.
19 19 MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES WII SEGA SEGA
18 20 GRAND THEFT AUTO IV XB360 ROCKSTAR TAKE 2
22 21 FIFA 09 XB360 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
13 22 SILENT HILL: HOMECOMING XB360 KONAMI KONAMI
37 23 HALO 3 XB360 MICROSOFT MICROSOFT
16 24 THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: OVERKILL WII SEGA SEGA
24 25 PUZZLER COLLECTION DS GAMES FOR EVERYONE UBISOFT
21 26 FOOTBALL MANAGER 2009 PC SEGA SEGA
23 27 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE XB360 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
17 28 SILENT HILL: HOMECOMING PS3 KONAMI KONAMI
10 29 WARHAMMER 40,000: DAWN OF WAR II PC THQ THQ
- 30 MYSTERY CASE FILES: MILLIONHEIR DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
25 31 FIFA 09 PS3 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
27 32 BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE WII D3P D3P
34 33 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
31 34 MARIO KART DS DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
32 35 DISNEY'S BOLT DS DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
28 36 CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR PS3 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
26 37 BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE PS2 D3P D3P
35 38 BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE DS D3P D3P
- 39 100 CLASSIC BOOK COLLECTION DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
38 40 MORE BRAIN TRAINING FROM DR KAWASHIMA DS NINTENDO NINTENDO


Wow@ Total War

I just added +1 week 11 for SF4 360, finally back in stock at my local asda. Huzzah!
 
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Kildace

Member
Interesting chart. HW apparently dropped more than KZ2, SF4 PS3 > SF4 360 by 1 spot again, Hawx 360 is also apparently neck and neck with the PS3 version. Both LBP and Halo3 got a nice bump and CoD4 and WaW are doing miles better on 360 than PS3. Shooterbox confirmed.

Edit: GTA4 360 holding on midway through the charts also points to exclusive DLC actually having an effect if it's marketted well.
 
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GhaleonEB

Member
9 16 SEGA MEGA DRIVE ULTIMATE COLLECTION PS3 SEGA SEGA
11 17 SEGA MEGA DRIVE ULTIMATE COLLECTION XB360 SEGA SEGA​
Yay. Legs.
 
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FrankT

Member
Nice start for Total War. I wonder how many actual units it sold. Anyhow looks like GTA 360 has seen a nice bump post release DLC and Halo just keeps on giving. It has to be at close to 10 million WW by now. Real fight for SF IV with the back and forth between the 360 and PS3 these last three week as well.
 
f@luS

f@luS

More than a member.
Jtyettis said:
Nice start for Total War. I wonder how many actual units it sold. Anyhow looks like GTA 360 has seen a nice bump post release DLC and Halo just keeps on giving. It has to be at close to 10 million WW by now. Real fight for SF IV with the back and forth between the 360 and PS3 these last three week as well.
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overall, pal at least , SFIV is doing better by quite a lot afaik. Its impressive
 
iceatcs

iceatcs

Junior Member
Joe211 said:
you can find France weekly top 5 on this website http://www.sell.fr/spip.php?article57
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heh? Killzone 2 Edition Collector sold more than original copies.

Edit for chart list.

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France:
Week 09, 2009
01 (01) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
02 (__) [PS3] Killzone 2 : Edition Collector (Sony)
03 (02) [PS3] Street Fighter IV (Capcom)
04 (03) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
05 (__) [PS3] Killzone 2 (Sony)
 
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Rolf NB

Member
Joe211 said:
you can find France weekly top 5 on this website http://www.sell.fr/spip.php?article57
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Top 5 console
1. Wii / Wii Fit / Nintendo
2. PS3 / Killzone 2 Collector's Edition / Sony
3. PS3 / Street Fighter IV / Digital Bros
4. Wii / Mario Kart w/ wheel / Nintendo
5. PS3 / Killzone 2 / Sony


Top 5 PC
1. Warhammer 40k: Dawn Of War / THQ
2. World Of Warcraft: Wrath Of The Lich King / Activision Blizzard
3. The Sims 2: Double Deluxe (?) / Electronic Arts
4. Grand Theft Auto IV / Take2
5. Football Manager 2009 / Sega / Sega


Aaand half-beaten :(
 
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