test_account said:Where does it say that it is only some of these stores?
Key Zavvi stores in Brighton, London and Manchester are yet to carry the game
Karma said:Was Fallout 3 (360) on sale last week? It jumped up 11 spots.
CoD Fries The Competition
01/Dec/2008
The Entertainment Software Top 40 reveals that three-quarters of titles listed have increased their sell-through over last week one of the biggest exceptions is Activision Blizzards Call of Duty: World at War (-30%), although the title still sits on top of the pile for a third successive week.
Both of last weeks big new releases climb 2 places this week with EAs Need for Speed: Undercover up from No4 to No2 (+35%) and Eidos Tomb Raider: Underworld up from No9 to No7 (+12%). EA also take No3 with FIFA 09 (+12%) dropping one place to accommodate the rise of NFS Undercover, with Nintendos Mario Kart Wii (+17%) also dropping one place to No4. Nintendo climb one place to No5 with Dr Kawashima Brain Training (+28%) and Konami climb 2 places to No6 with Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (+21%). No7 is the aforementioned Tomb Raider: Underworld (+12%) and climbing 2 places to No8 is Nintendos Wii Play (+3%). Activision Blizzard climb 2 places to No9 with Guitar Hero: World Tour (-1%) and the only new entry this week is Sonys Resistance 2 on PS3 at No10. This is the follow-up to one of the format holders original launch titles Resistance: Fall of Man however launch week sales of Resistance 2 are only around two-thirds of the original.
Ah ok, i see it now, i didnt read that article close enough the first time, i am sorry :\ I wonder exactly how much it affected the sales, if it had little impact or if it had a relatively big impact. Thanks for the answer!Opus Angelorum said:
mr_bishiuk said:Resistance 2 only 2/3 of R1 sales in first week?? I guess Resistance 1 wasn't that popular with gamers who bought it?
Yes, Game has/had it on offer at £27.99 along with the PS3 edition (And are selling thier exclusive Special edition at the same price).Karma said:Was Fallout 3 (360) on sale last week? It jumped up 11 spots.
I don't think we should laugh any more. SCEE aren't even using abstract ads any more, they have just not bothered advertising anything other than Fifa and PSP.Steroyd said:Laughable.
GhaleonEB said:Seriously, that's Bizzare. What was the marketing like for R2?
01 (03) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
04 (06) WII Wii Play (Nintendo)
07 (07) WII Wii Music (Nintendo)
08 (04) WII Wii Fit (Nintendo)
19 (24) WII Carnival: Funfair Games (Take 2)
21 (10) WII Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
27 (__) WII Guinness World Records: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)
32 (23) WII Guitar Hero: World Tour (Activision Blizzard)
34 (__) WII Rayman Raving Rabbids Tv Party (Ubisoft)
39 (25) WII High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance (Disney Interactive Studios)
Opus Angelorum said:
[Nintex] said:It's Motorstorm and PGR4 all over again
Stink said:Huh, Resistance 2 had a pretty major ad before Quantum of Solace in my cinema. There was an abstract PS3 ad as well.
Sho_Nuff82 said:Fixed to be fair.
Shame about Resistance 2, if the people who lined up at launch to buy PS3 prefer COD then it has little chance of reaching the sales of the last outing, even before bundles are considered.
mr_bishiuk said:This months DVD and blu ray review magazine have a 4 page "newspaper" pull out ad for Resistance 2
Loudninja said:Am I missing something here, it charted pretty well.
Stink said:the original did have some legs however, mostly due to being the platform holders title, but of course there is no reason to suspect that Sony won't use it in this way again.
Ah ok, maybe the stock shortage didnt affect the overall sales of Resistance 2 that much then. I wonder how Resistance 2 will keep on selling in the upcomming weeksmr_bishiuk said:Within walking distance of Zavvi in those Cities there is 20 other stores that will have stock mind.
I saw it in Game, Gametstaion and HMV at the weekend
I dont know about in the UK, but i actually saw 1 commercial each for both Lips and You're in the Movies today on norwegian television. The Lips commercial was the one with the walking mouth singing some A-HA song and the You're in the Movies commercial was the one with Burt Reynolds. I cant recall to have seen any Gears of War 2 commercial on TV here, but i dont really watch that much TV (i would guess that i watch TV about 1 - 1.5 hours a day or so).Chinner said:Has anyone else in UK GAF noticed that Microsoft have started pushing ads for Lips and You're in the Movies? Seen quite a few adverts for both products......and none for Gears2.
Dunlop said:Sony can't buy a break. I'm not a huge fan of the game so far but I am new to the PS3 world.
I figured it had a Gears of War kind of following.....
edit: Halo, not GOW kind of following
Am I missing something here? it charted pretty well.
Netherlands:
Week 48, 2008
01 (06) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
02 (09) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
03 (02) [PS3] Call Of Duty/world At War (Activision Blizzard)
04 (__) [360] Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
05 (04) [360] Call Of Duty/world At War (Activision Blizzard)
06 (01) [PC] World Of Warcraft/wrath Of The Lich King (Activision Blizzard)
07 (05) [PC] Call Of Duty/world At War (Activision Blizzard)
08 (__) [360] Lips (Microsoft)
09 (10) [NDS] Professor Layton (Nintendo)
10 (__) [360] Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
Chinner said:Has anyone else in UK GAF noticed that Microsoft have started pushing ads for Lips and You're in the Movies? Seen quite a few adverts for both products......and none for Gears2.
mr_bishiuk said:I think it had legs because the PS3 had little else to buy, clearly the fact it sold less than R1 despite the increased install base must be very disappointing for Insomniac and Sony
If i recall correctly, i think that i already saw a PS3 + Motor Storm 2 bundle. I have no idea if it was some official Sony bundle though or if it was just a store who had some sales promotion or something and included Motor Storm 2 as a separate game from the PS3 itself (as in that the game itself wasnt packed in the PS3 cartboard box). Unfortunately i dont remember where i saw it, so i cant check again, but i am pretty sure it was on an online webstore atleast.Stink said:I was talking about pack-ins mostly.
Maybe, but what about Brain Training for the DS? Didnt that chart for a year or so?Psychotext said:On a slightly different note... Wii Fit / Mario Kart have to have broken records for the total number of weeks charting by now, surely?
mr_bishiuk said:On PS3 and 360 £28 in a couple of places HMV for one
Karma said:Thanks. Any others games that were on sale last week or this week?
Chinner said:Has anyone else in UK GAF noticed that Microsoft have started pushing ads for Lips and You're in the Movies? Seen quite a few adverts for both products......and none for Gears2.
It actually went up 8 places in the 360 chart this week, so maybe it'll stick around there for a while.Accident said:Lips missed the Top 40 by a bit, it was below Left 4 Dead in the 360 charts.
Yeah, it's a shame the You're In The Movies ad is really shit, though.Chinner said:Has anyone else in UK GAF noticed that Microsoft have started pushing ads for Lips and You're in the Movies? Seen quite a few adverts for both products......and none for Gears2.
Chinner said:Has anyone else in UK GAF noticed that Microsoft have started pushing ads for Lips and You're in the Movies? Seen quite a few adverts for both products......and none for Gears2.
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France:
Early Top 5 - Week 47, 2008
01 (01) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
02 (02) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
03 (03) [PS3] Call Of Duty: World At War (Activision Blizzard)
04 (__) [PS3] Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
05 (04) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
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Netherlands:
Week 48, 2008
01 (06) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
02 (09) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
03 (02) [PS3] Call Of Duty/world At War (Activision Blizzard)
04 (__) [360] Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
05 (04) [360] Call Of Duty/world At War (Activision Blizzard)
06 (01) [PC] World Of Warcraft/wrath Of The Lich King (Activision Blizzard)
07 (05) [PC] Call Of Duty/world At War (Activision Blizzard)
08 (__) [360] Lips (Microsoft)
09 (10) [NDS] Professor Layton (Nintendo)
10 (__) [360] Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
It's a typo, look at the link in the post you quoted. The PS3 version should be 4th.gtj1092 said:Clarification anyone.
HOLY SHIT! Look at all those kids who skipped school!Raist said:
cjelly said:It actually went up 8 places in the 360 chart this week, so maybe it'll stick around there for a while.
Can we not start this again? At least leave it until the next major holidays so one of you can argue your point with some vague form of evidence.Parl said:HOLY SHIT! Look at all those kids who skipped school!
Or how a lack of new big releases on other platforms prevents Wii's sustained software sales from being perceived to be in decline after the holidays.
Same as sonic next, £25 by mid december.cjelly said:I just remembered Sonic Unleashed got released last week:
#23 in Xbox 360
#34 in Wii
It'll be half price by Christmas. :lol
Frillen said:Can someone please explain the Weighted Chart to me?
# of points Rank in individual chart
20 1
11,29 2
8,09 3
6,39 4
5,32 5
4,58 6
4,04 7
3,62 8
3,29 9
3,02 10
2,8 11
2,61 12
2,44 13
2,3 14
2,18 15
2,07 16
1,97 17
1,88 18
1,8 19
1,73 20
1,66 21
1,6 22
1,55 23
1,5 24
1,45 25
1,4 26
1,36 27
1,32 28
1,29 29
1,25 30
1,22 31
1,19 32
1,16 33
1,14 34
1,11 35
1,09 36
1,06 37
1,04 38
1,02 39
1 40
Someone will probably find the exact weight for each place on the chart. However it gives an extremely high weight to top placers on the chart, since when there are new releases they usualy sell way more than the places below them... it is not to be considered as a good measurement of the amount of software sold however since the difference in sales between places on the chart varies a good amount between weeks. Take it with some salt.Frillen said:Can someone please explain the Weighted Chart to me?
Chinner said:Has anyone else in UK GAF noticed that Microsoft have started pushing ads for Lips and You're in the Movies? Seen quite a few adverts for both products......and none for Gears2.
cjelly said:Only affected some Zavvi stores, WHSmith and Currys, so nothing special.
Parl said:HOLY SHIT! Look at all those kids who skipped school!
Or how a lack of new big releases on other platforms prevents Wii's sustained software sales from being perceived to be in decline after the holidays.
Belgorim said:Someone will probably find the exact weight for each place on the chart. However it gives an extremely high weight to top placers on the chart, since when there are new releases they usualy sell way more than the places below them... it is not to be considered as a good measurement of the amount of software sold however since the difference in sales between places on the chart varies a good amount between weeks. Take it with some salt.
You Europeans and your numbers. I was trying to figure out how #2 was weighted both 11 points and 29 points.Raist said:Code:# of points Rank in individual chart