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UK:

Originally Posted by CharTrack:

EA win it in injury time as ‘FIFA 09’ tops a hugely successful year by scoring the Christmas No1 ahead of Activision Blizzard’s ‘Call of Duty: World at War’ which drops to No2 and Nintendo’s ‘Mario Kart Wii’ which falls from No2 to No3.

It is EA’s 6th All Formats Christmas No1 in the past 8 years. A perfectly timed retailer promotion saw sales of ‘FIFA 09’ soar past its rivals, up 89% on last week, while Call of Duty could only manage a 13% rise and sales of 'Mario Kart Wii' jumped 40% bringing it within 3,000 sales of Call of Duty. EA’s ‘Need for Speed: Undercover’ makes sure of holding on to the No4 position as retailer discounting helps sales climb 27%, while Nintendo’s Brain Training is the only All Formats Top 10 title to drop sales, a non-mover at No5 with sales down 1%. Nintendo can celebrate a successful Christmas period however, with half the All Formats Top 10 made up of Nintendo published games. Nintendo’s games have enjoyed a strong presence in the All Formats Top 10 throughout the year and this week is no exception. Mario Kart Wii has been out for 37 weeks with only 4 of those weeks spent outside the Top 10.

‘Wii Play’ moves up one place to No6 and ‘Wii Fit’ drops 2 places to No10, but it is ‘Professor Layton and the Curious Village’ which exceeds all expectations, re-entering the Top 40 at No8, proving to be a popular Christmas stocking filler, no doubt helped by strong demand and renewed stock. Activision Blizzard’s price promotion appears to have centred more around ‘Quantum of Solace’ than ‘Call of Duty’ as the Bond film tie-in is back in the Top 10, up from No13 to No7. ‘Tomb Raider: Underworld’ gets a well needed Christmas sales boost this week, up from No10 to No9 with sales climbing by 22%.

Week 51, 2008 - Individual Formats (Units)
01 (01) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
02 (02) NDS Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
03 (04) WII Wii Play (Nintendo)
04 (__) NDS Professor Layton And The Curious Village (Nintendo)
05 (03) 360 Call Of Duty: World At War (Activision Blizzard)
06 (05) WII Wii Fit (Nintendo)
07 (26) 360 Fifa 09 (Electronic Arts)
08 (06) PS3 Littlebigplanet (Sony Computer Ent.)
09 (07) PS3 Call Of Duty: World At War (Activision Blizzard)
10 (08) 360 Gears Of War 2 (Microsoft)
11 (21) PS3 Fifa 09 (Electronic Arts)
12 (16) WII Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
13 (13) 360 Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (Lucasarts)
14 (12) 360 Kung Fu Panda (Activision Blizzard)
15 (10) NDS More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
16 (28) WII Guinness World Records: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)
17 (17) 360 Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
18 (32) WII Carnival: Funfair Games (Take 2)
19 (14) PS3 Resistance 2 (Sony Computer Ent.)
20 (19) WII Wii Music (Nintendo)
21 (15) WII Rayman Raving Rabbids Tv Party (Ubisoft)
22 (11) WII Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City (Nintendo)
23 (23) 360 Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft)
24 (22) PS3 Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
25 (24) 360 Lips (Microsoft)
26 (33) 360 Tomb Raider: Underworld (Eidos)
27 (09) 360 Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks)
28 (18) NDS Nintendogs: Lab & Friends (Nintendo)
29 (__) PS2 Singstar Abba (Sony Computer Ent.)
30 (__) 360 Quantum Of Solace (Activision Blizzard)
31 (30) NDS High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Disney Interactive Studios)
32 (__) 360 Prince Of Persia (Ubisoft)
33 (38) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
34 (25) PC Football Manager 2009 (Sega)
35 (__) PS3 Prince Of Persia (Ubisoft)
36 (36) WII High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance (Disney Interactive Studios)
37 (34) NDS Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)
38 (20) NDS Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What To Eat? (Nintendo)
39 (__) PSP Fifa 09 (Electronic Arts)
40 (37) WII Guitar Hero: World Tour (Activision Blizzard)


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Ireland:
Week 51, 2008 - Entertainment Software (All Prices)
01 (01) Fifa 09 (Electronic Arts)
02 (02) Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
03 (05) Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
04 (03) Call Of Duty: World At War (Activision Blizzard)
05 (04) Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
06 (07) New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
07 (06) Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami)
08 (10) Quantum Of Solace (Activision Blizzard)
09 (11) More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
10 (08) Gears Of War 2 (Microsoft)
11 (__) Professor Layton And The Curious Village (Nintendo)
12 (15) Wii Play (Nintendo)
13 (16) Wii Fit (Nintendo)
14 (14) Resistance 2 (Sony Computer Ent.)
15 (__) Prince Of Persia (Ubisoft)
16 (20) Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
17 (13) Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)
18 (18) Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks)
19 (19) Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft)
20 (__) Guitar Hero: World Tour (Activision Blizzard)


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Denmark:
Week 51, 2008 - Entertainment Software (All Prices)
01 (01) Fifa 09 (Electronic Arts)
02 (02) Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
03 (05) Guitar Hero: World Tour (Activision Blizzard)
04 (03) Singstar Abba (Nordisk Film)
05 (04) Lego Batman: The Videogame (Pan Vision)
06 (06) Call Of Duty: World At War (Activision Blizzard)
07 (07) World Of Warcraft: Wrath Of Lich King (Activision Blizzard)
08 (12) Crash: Mind Over Mutant (Activision Blizzard)
09 (10) Football Manager 2009 (Pan Vision)
10 (14) Wii Fit (Nintendo)
11 (08) Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (Activision Blizzard)
12 (11) Grand Theft Auto Iv (K.E. Media)
13 (09) Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
14 (17) The Sims 2: Apartment Life (Electronic Arts)
15 (__) Fallout 3 (Ubisoft)
16 (13) Disney Sing It (K.E. Media)
17 (__) Wii Play (Nintendo)
18 (15) The Legend Of Spyro: Dawn Of The Dragon (Activision Blizzard)
19 (18) Counter-Strike: Source (Electronic Arts)
20 (16) Singstar Singalong With Disney (Nordisk Film)


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Netherlands:
Week 51, 2008

01 (01) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
02 (04) [PS3] Call Of Duty/world At War (Activision Blizzard)
03 (06) [WII] Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
04 (03) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
05 (05) [360] Call Of Duty/world At War (Activision Blizzard)
06 (02) [PC] Grand Theft Auto IV (Take 2)
07 (__) [NDS] Professor Layton And The Curious Village (Nintendo)
08 (09) [PC] Call Of Duty/world At War (Activision Blizzard)
09 (07) [NDS] Brain Training (Nintendo)
10 (08) [PS3] Resistance 2 (Sony Computer Ent.)

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France:
Week 50, 2008

01 (01) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
02 (02) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
03 (03) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
04 (04) [WII] Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Ubisoft)
05 (05) [WII] Guitar Hero: World Tour Bundle (Activision Blizzard)
06 (06) [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
07 (07) [PS3] Call Of Duty: World At War (Activision Blizzard)
08 (__) [WII] Guitar Hero World Tour + Guitar (Activision Blizzard)
09 (__) [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
10 (__) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

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Week 50
Week 49
Week 48
Week 47
Week 46

 

[dabra]

Spain:


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Italy :
Week 50, 2008

01 (01) [PS2] PES 2009
02 (02) [WII] Mario Kart Wii
03 (13) [NDS] More Brain Training
04 (03) [WII] Wii Fit
05 (04) [WII] Wii Play
06 (07) [PS2] FIFA 09
07 (__) [PS2] Need For Speed Undercover
08 (08) [PS3] PES 2009
09 (09) [NDS] Brain Training
10 (06) [NDS] Pokemon Ranger: Orme Su Almia
11 (05) [PS3] Prince Of Persia
12 (12) [PSP] PES 2009
13 (__) [PS3] Need For Speed Undercover
14 (10) [NDS] High School Musical 3
15 (__) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros.


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Norway:
Week 50, 2008 - All Formatshttp://www.vg.no/spill/topp20konsoll.hbs?liste=2&uke=52&aar=2008

Consoles
01 (01) Singstar Abba (Sony)
02 (02) Guitar Hero: World Tour (Activision)
03 (05) FIFA 09 (Electronic Arts)
04 (03) Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
05 (04) Call of Duty: World at War (Activision)
06 (07) Wii Fit (Nintendo)
07 (06) Disney: Sing it (Disney Interactive)
08 (08) Lego Batman: The Video Game (Warner Brothers Interactive)
09 (09) Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
10 (17) Little Big Planet (Sony)
11 (12) Quantum of Solace: The Game (Activision)
12 (11) Lips (Microsoft)
13 (10) The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon (Activision)
14 (18) Shaun White Snowboarding (Ubisoft)
15 (14) High School Musical 3: Senior Year DANCE! (Disney Interactive)
16 (13) Crash: Mind over Mutant (Activision)
17 (__) Buzz: Quiz TV (Sony)
18 (15) Prince of Persia (Ubisoft)
19 (__) Mirror's Edge (Electronic Arts)
20 (16) Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks)
Handhelds
01 (01) Littlest Pet Shop (DS) (Electronic Arts)
02 (02) New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
03 (03) Josefine og Drømmespeilet (Pan Vision)
04 (04) Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia (Nintendo)
05 (06) High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Disney Interactive)
06 (__) Mario Party DS (Nintendo)
07 (05) Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
08 (__) Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
09 (10) Crash: Mind over Mutant (Activision)
10 (__) Nintendogs (Nintendo)
PC
01 (01) Football Manager 2009 (Sega)
02 (03) World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard)
03 (02) Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games)
04 (04) Call of Duty: World at War (Activision)
05 (07) The Sims 2: Byliv (Electronic Arts)
06 (05) Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Electronic Arts)
07 (06) Spore (Electronic Arts)
08 (__) The Sims 2 (Electronic Arts)
09 (__) Josefine Skolehjelp: Matterallyet (Pan Vision)
10 (__) Josefine Skolehjelp: Norge rundt (Pan Vision)[/QUOTE]


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Germany:


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Australia :


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New Zealand :

 

[SupahBlah]

The chart suggests Layton is back in stock which is bullshit. :lol

 

[gofreak]

I'm ashamed of my Irish brethern. UK-ers 'got it' the last couple of weeks, but no LBP reappearance at all over here. For SHAME.

Oh well, it's nice to see it staying up in the UK for another week. Even went up in the 'by value' chart this week. Nice to see Norway 'getting it' too.

 

[marc^o^]

WiiFit and Mario Kart remain the 2 best selling games in Europe, months after their release. When will it stop?!?

 

[dralla]

PoP at 32, ouch

 

[Jammy]

WiiFit and Mario Kart remain the 2 best selling games in Europe, months after their release. When will it stop?!?

It's like that in the U.S., too, and they're still holding up in Japan quite well (Mario Kart Wii will hit 2 million and Wii Fit will reach 3 million within a couple of weeks).

 

[gollumsluvslave]

I'm ashamed of my Irish brethern. UK-ers 'got it' the last couple of weeks, but no LBP reappearance at all over here. For SHAME.

Bear in mind that LBP has been on promotion in UK @ £19.99

 

[me Jojo]

Fallout from #9 to #27

 

[industrian]

Woolworths going bust is divine retribution for Valkyria Chronicles bombing in the UK.

If Yakuza 3 gets localised and bombs, then WH Smith is next.

 

[AmishFerrari]

I'm glad Prof Layton is getting some purchases (except for you Norway, come on). Its been good in Australia too from what i've heard, hard to find though, people have been buying Sight Training too...i cant really explain that.
No Rock Band 2 love in Europe at the moment, which is weird, mine just arrived in Sydney, and we ripped it up last night with the AC/DC expansion, it was pretty fun.

Hopefully, Rise Of The Argonauts will see some sales, although it'll probably bomb or be a sleeper hit.

 

[spwolf]

Bear in mind that LBP has been on promotion in UK @ £19.99

for 2 weeks now ... and last week it was even sold out for most of the week... :lol

 

[gofreak]

Bear in mind that LBP has been on promotion in UK @ £19.99

We usually get the same high street deals here, at least, as in the UK. They're the same retailers.

It also went up in the value chart this week, which suggests it was less discounted this week, perhaps, in the UK.

It's messed up that it hasn't even reappeared in top 20 here.

WiiFit and Mario Kart remain the 2 best selling games in Europe, months after their release. When will it stop?!?

When Nintendo releases 'a new hotness'. If they keep constraining the 'potential hit' supply like they have this year, expect those same names to keep cropping up over and over, and for title churn to remain minimal.

 

[Frillen]

and last week it was even sold out for most of the week... :lol

Mario Kart Wii as well, but somehow it was still number #1. Strange world we live in...

 

[AdamChrisH]

Still a tad disappointing for Animal Crossing I think.

 

[Francias Castiglione]

FIFA 09 playing a blinder! Hope they don't get lazy on this success mind.

 

[SolidC213]

Good to see LBP is still selling well.

 

[Feral Youth]

Fallout from #9 to #27

Not to mention it's around £27 quid in most places.

 

[jibblypop]

I'm happy to see those sales for Mario Kart, Little Big Planet and Professor Layton. Those are three fantastic games.

 

[CrunchinJelly]

I'll just quote myself from the other thread:

Gears 2 must have done some pretty decent numbers by now. It was only out of the top 10 for one week (it hit 11th that week), and has been out all through November and December.

Not too bad, as it hasn't had the price cuts a lot of other 'big' titles have had.

Nobody ever mentions Gears, and in a bumper year with price drops all over the shop, it has done phenomenally well over here.

 

[spwolf]

I'll just quote myself from the other thread:



Nobody ever mentions Gears, and in a bumper year with price drops all over the shop, it has done phenomenally well over here.

Gears2 did awesome, nobody mentions it because it is taken for granted

 

[SovanJedi]

Jeez, New Super Mario Bros. still in the top 40 as well. I wonder what its worldwide sales are NOW?

Professor Layton is a really good success story - it's the non-game that people seem to accept as an honorary hardcore title. I wonder how well the sequels will do when they're localised?

 

[Jaded Alyx]

When Nintendo releases 'a new hotness'. If they keep constraining the 'potential hit' supply like they have this year, expect those same names to keep cropping up over and over, and for title churn to remain minimal.

Where is Brawl then?

 

[spwolf]

Mario Kart Wii as well, but somehow it was still number #1. Strange world we live in...

I dont see anything dethroning Mario Kart as best selling Wii game for quite a while...

 

[TJ Spyke]

Where is Brawl then?

Only managed to get to 19th on the Wii chart :
http://www.charttrack.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110030

 

[Graphics Horse]

WiiFit and Mario Kart remain the 2 best selling games in Europe, months after their release. When will it stop?!?

Same as Wii Play. When the Wii stops selling, or sequels come out.

Mario Kart Wii as well, but somehow it was still number #1. Strange world we live in...

It's still being advertised.

 

[slaughterking]

Holy shit at Layton. If NoE is going to wait another one and a half year to bring the sequel over, it would really show how lazy they are. D:<

 

[HK-47]

Jeez, New Super Mario Bros. still in the top 40 as well. I wonder what its worldwide sales are NOW?

Professor Layton is a really good success story - it's the non-game that people seem to accept as an honorary hardcore title. I wonder how well the sequels will do when they're localised?

Probably like 15 million something

 

[Jaded Alyx]

Only managed to get to 19th on the Wii chart :
http://www.charttrack.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110030

That's my point.

Probably like 15 million something

It was nearing 16 million at the end of September.

 

[TJ Spyke]

Probably like 15 million something

It was already over 15 million at the end of September.

 

[Juno]

I went into Game, Smyths (large indy toy store) HMV and Zavvi today and the cheapest I saw LBP was £36.91.

 

[Captain Smoker]

Jeez, New Super Mario Bros. still in the top 40 as well. I wonder what its worldwide sales are NOW?

Professor Layton is a really good success story - it's the non-game that people seem to accept as an honorary hardcore title. I wonder how well the sequels will do when they're localised?

New Super Mario Bros.: 15.890.000


till end of September 08

 

[Danielsan]

Great to see Layton doing well.
They are actually advertising it on tv over here.

 

[Burai]

Only managed to get to 19th on the Wii chart :
http://www.charttrack.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110030

It should go back up next week. A number of retailers have been offering discounts over the weekend and Shopto.net have just posted it at £19.99 delivered, the cheapest it's ever been.

 

[Opiate]

Last week, we learned that CoD5 outsold MKWii by 27,000 units. This week, we know that CoD5 outsold MKWii by 3,000 units.

We also know that sales of MKWii are up 40%, while sales of COD5 are up 13%. Using this information, we can mathematically deduce the following:

This week:

CoD5 (360/PS3//PC/Wii/PS2/DS): ~145,500
MKWii (Wii): ~142,460

Last week:

CoD5 (360/PS3/PC/Wii/PS2/DS): ~128,761
MKWii (Wii): ~101,757

 

[slaughterking]

Heh, clever.

 

[Basileus777]

Lips seems to be doing pretty decently.

 

[Kenka]

Last week, we learned that CoD5 outsold MKWii by 27,000 units. This week, we know that CoD5 outsold MKWii by 3,000 units.

We also know that sales of MKWii are up 40%, while sales of COD5 are up 13%. Using this information, we can mathematically deduce the following:

This week:

CoD5 (360/PS3//PC/Wii/PS2/DS): ~145,500
MKWii (Wii): ~142,460

Last week:

CoD5 (360/PS3/PC/Wii/PS2/DS): ~128,761
MKWii (Wii): ~101,757

Crap, those two guys took have an appointment with the 2M mark....

 

[Salazar]

Go on Australia. How bland is our taste this time ?

 

[Jammy]

Last week, we learned that CoD5 outsold MKWii by 27,000 units. This week, we know that CoD5 outsold MKWii by 3,000 units.

We also know that sales of MKWii are up 40%, while sales of COD5 are up 13%. Using this information, we can mathematically deduce the following:

This week:

CoD5 (360/PS3//PC/Wii/PS2/DS): ~145,500
MKWii (Wii): ~142,460

Last week:

CoD5 (360/PS3/PC/Wii/PS2/DS): ~128,761
MKWii (Wii): ~101,757

:O

 

[Accident]

Last week, we learned that CoD5 outsold MKWii by 27,000 units. This week, we know that CoD5 outsold MKWii by 3,000 units.

We also know that sales of MKWii are up 40%, while sales of COD5 are up 13%. Using this information, we can mathematically deduce the following:

This week:

CoD5 (360/PS3//PC/Wii/PS2/DS): ~145,500
MKWii (Wii): ~142,460

Last week:

CoD5 (360/PS3/PC/Wii/PS2/DS): ~128,761
MKWii (Wii): ~101,757

I was working with those numbers early to get the LTD of COD5. It should has passed the 1 million mark on week 49 so it's missing 63k somewhere at least.


Week 51 145,643 (+13%)
Week 50 128,888 (+2%)
Week 49 126,237 (-15%)
Week 48 151,632 (-30%)
Week 47 216,618 (-51%)
Week 46 442,078
Total 1,211,096

 

[SupahBlah]

Nobody ever mentions Gears, and in a bumper year with price drops all over the shop, it has done phenomenally well over here.

Gears has done great, Call of Duty has had no price drop either.

Holy shit at Layton. If NoE is going to wait another one and a half year to bring the sequel over, it would really show how lazy they are. D:<

Layton would be number one if they actually had some stock, some places only sell it with a DS.

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

Same as Wii Play. When the Wii stops selling, or sequels come out.




It's still being advertised.

A lot! In spain it's one of the few wii games being advertised, the others are Wii Fit,Wii music and Animal Crossing.

0 marketing for Layton here, I'll be pretty surprising seeing that game, charting in the top 10.

 

[RBH]

Interesting how Lips has seemingly received a shitload of advertising in the UK while it's gotten next to no promotion at all in the U.S.

At least it seems to be paying off for MS in the UK, as Lips has now charted for the past three weeks, I believe.

 

[dabra]

Italy:
Week 50, 2008

01 (01) [PS2] PES 2009
02 (02) [WII] Mario Kart Wii
03 (13) [NDS] More Brain Training
04 (03) [WII] Wii Fit
05 (04) [WII] Wii Play
06 (07) [PS2] FIFA 09
07 (__) [PS2] Need For Speed Undercover
08 (08) [PS3] PES 2009
09 (09) [NDS] Brain Training
10 (06) [NDS] Pokemon Ranger: Orme Su Almia
11 (05) [PS3] Prince Of Persia
12 (12) [PSP] PES 2009
13 (__) [PS3] Need For Speed Undercover
14 (10) [NDS] High School Musical 3
15 (__) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros.

 

[APZonerunner]

Interesting how Lips has seemingly received a shitload of advertising in the UK while it's gotten next to no promotion at all in the U.S.

At least it seems to be paying off for MS in the UK, as Lips has now charted for the past three weeks, I believe.

Yeah, it's doing surprisingly well here. I was in a store the other day and they sold about 8 copies while I was in the store, plus it's being bundled with Premiums.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Interesting how Lips has seemingly received a shitload of advertising in the UK while it's gotten next to no promotion at all in the U.S.

At least it seems to be paying off for MS in the UK, as Lips has now charted for the past three weeks, I believe.

All promotion I've seen in US is for You're In The Movies... =/

 

[dk_]

Yay, LBP still does well.

 

[Luckyman]

Yay, LBP still does well.

Nah, GAF says it bombed

 

[dk_]

Nah, GAF says it bombed

Only the ignorant part of GAF.