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PC Sales Charts: Go, Torchlight, Go!

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:30:00 +0000

Well, whaddya know. Modern Warfare 2 came out last week, and finished last week as the #1 game on Steam. On Direct2Drive, however, it didn’t fare as well.

Probably because IGN’s online storefront wasn’t selling the game.

In its place, then, came Dragon Age, which continues to sell at a pace I honestly wouldn’t have predicted coming into this holiday season. Which isn’t a bad thing! No, I’m pleasantly surprised.

PC Digital Download Charts For The Week Ending November 14

Steam

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2. Dragon Age: Origins
3. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
4. Borderlands
5. Overload Complete Pack
6. Torchlight
7. Crysis / Crysis Warhead Bundle
8. Football Manager 2010
9. Mass Effect
10. Counter-Strike: Source

Direct2Drive

1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
3. Borderlands
4. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition (with strategy guide)
5. Torchlight
6. Best of Indie Bundle Vol. 2
7. Tropico 3
8. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
10. Fallen Earth

Aussie Charts: How’d That Boycott Work Out?

David Wildgoose — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:04 +0000

We’ve seen how some of the Modern Warfare 2 boycotters went about stickin’ it to the man. But how about in Australia? Did the alleged boycott have any impact on sales?

To judge by the chart positions below, probably not. It’s absolutely no surprise to see MW2 take the top two positions, and no surprise to see the 360 version outsell the PS3, and even less of a surprise to see the PC version in there as well.

However, what we don’t know is exact numbers. We’re still waiting on Activision to release their launch sales figures for Australia, as they’ve already done for the US and the UK.

Expect to see New Super Mario Bros., Wii Fit Plus and Wii Cricket continue to hang around the top of the chart all summer.

Next week should be interesting. Will Modern Warfare 2 hang on against Assassin’s Creed II?

All Format Full-Priced Games Top 10 for the w/e November 15:

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360)
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)
3. New Super Mario Bros. (Wii)
4. Wii Cricket (Wii)
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PC)
6. Wii Fit Plus (Wii)
7. Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (Wii)
8. Forza Motorsport 3 (360)
9. Bakugan (DS)
10. Wii Play (Wii)

British Sales Charts: A Warfare Most Modern

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0000

As expected, Activision’s Modern Warfare 2 has marched straight into the top spots on the British charts, breaking practically every sales record it passed along the way.

In its first five days on sale, the game sold 1.78 million units, with platform honours going to the 360, which accounted for “over one million” of those. In terms of the British market, that’s so many sales that if you combined every other game sold in Britain last week, Modern Warfare sold twice that amount.

The 1.78 million sold and £67.4 million raked in easily beats the country’s previous launch record-holder, GTAIV, which could “only” manage 927,000 units at £39.9 million.

PC Sales Charts: The Age Of Dragons

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0000

I was on holiday, so the PC sales charts were on holiday. Now that I’m back, well, you’ve probably read the headline by now.

When I left, MMO Aion was king, having dominated both the Steam and Direct2Drive charts for weeks. How things have changed. BioWare’s Dragon Age is now top dog, not only occupying top spot on both charts, but five of the 20 total spots available when you factor in all the different versions.

Also nice to see Torchlight doing well.

PC Digital Download Charts For The Week Ending November 7

Steam

1. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
2. Dragon Age: Origins
3. Left 4 Dead 2 (pre-sale)
4. Borderlands
5. Torchlight
6. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (pre-sale)
7. Football Manager 2010
8. Mass Effect
9. Shattered Horizon
10. Aion

Direct2Drive

1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
3. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition (+ strategy guide)
4. Borderlands
5. Torchlight
6. Tropico 3
7. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition
8. Aion
9. Fallen Earth
10. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

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Aussie Charts: What’s In Your Shopping Cart?

David Wildgoose — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:00:42 +0000

How popular are those ridiculously psychotic rabbids? Far more popular than I realised, as it turns out.

Rabbids Go Home, the nonsense platformer where our heroes collect junk to build a tower (of babble?) to the moon, leaps in at #4. It completes a quartet of Wii titles at the top of the chart. Perennials Mario Kart and Wii Fit take the top slots, while the rejigged Ashes Cricket bats at first drop.

Hey, where did Uncharted 2 go?

All Format Full-Priced Games Top 10 for the w/e November 8:

1. Mario Kart (Wii)
2. Wii Fit Plus (Wii)
3. Wii Cricket (Wii)
4. Rabbids Go Home (Wii)
5. Forza Motorsport 3 (360)
6. Tekken 6 (PS3)
7. Episodes From Liberty City (360)
8. Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
9. Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (DS)
10. Wii Play (Wii)

British Sales Charts: The Calm Before The Storm

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:30:00 +0000

Welcome to last week’s British sales charts, where a number of games have done the chivalrous thing and kept the seat warm for the incoming Modern Warfare 2.

You’ll see Wii Fit and Wii Sports Resort up there, which is awful swell of them, but if the 360 and PS3 versions of MW2 aren’t sitting in their spots next week I’ll eat whatever hat you put in front of me. Nacho, beret, bowler, doesn’t matter.

Matter of fact, FM2010 in third place is probably also in danger, what with MW2 also shipping on PC. I know, the British charts aren’t normally very PC-friendly (aside from, you know…FM2010), but if ever a PC game was going to crack it, it’s going to be this one.

Aussie Charts: Can Gay Tony Top Forza?

David Wildgoose — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:55 +0000

Surely a new Grand Theft Auto would be capable of knocking a racing sim off the top of the charts?

OK, count me surprised. I hadn’t realised Forza had such staying power. Anyone care to enlighten me as to the appeal and popularity of Forza?

Elsewhere, not a great has changed since last week. Mario Kart’s shifting a truckload due to retailers presently bundling it with (almost) every Wii sold. Uncharted 2 looks to be a solid hit for Sony. Likewise Borderlands for 2K and Gearbox.

All Format Full-Priced Games Top 10 for the w/e November 1:

1. Forza Motorsport 3 (360)
2. Episodes From Liberty City (360)
3. Mario Kart (Wii)
4. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
5. Borderlands (360)
6. Wii Fit Plus (Wii)
7. WWE: Smackdown VS Raw 2010 (PS2)
8. Borderlands (PS3)
9. Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
10. Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (DS)

Aussie Charts: Forza Takes Pole

David Wildgoose — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:00:29 +0000

And this week’s big console-exclusive number one is… Forza 3!

As we move into the big end of year games, we’ve seen Halo 3: ODST take the top slot twice and Uncharted 2 grab it last week. Drake’s grip has faltered though, dropping to fourth. ODST, meanwhile, slides out of the top ten altogether.

Forza 3 shouldn’t be a surprise; it’s the biggest racing series on the 360, after all. But I wasn’t sure if we’d be suffering some kind of genre burnout (*groan*) after Shift and DiRT2 hitting last month. Clearly my concern was unfounded.

Also, well done Borderlands. And, wow, is that a PS2 game at number six?

All Format Full-Priced Games Top 10 for the w/e October 25:

1. Forza Motorsport 3 (360)
2. Mario Kart (Wii)
3. Wii Fit Plus (Wii)
4. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
5. Borderlands (360)
6. WWE: Smackdown VS Raw 2010 (PS2)
7. Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (Wii)
8. Borderlands (PS3)
9. Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
10. WWE: Smackdown VS Raw 2010 (PS3)

Aussie Charts: You’re All Among Thieves

David Wildgoose — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:10 +0000

Exciting times in the top ten this week with no fewer than six brand new entries, including the entire top three.

Uncharted 2, to absolutely nobody’s surprise, leaps (oh yes) straight to number one. There hasn’t been a game that seemingly everyone has been playing since, maybe, GTA IV?

Below it, the release of Wii Fit Plus sees the original Wii Fit vanish like the waistline of a dedicated exergamer. And right down the bottom it’s good to see Tim Schafer score a bonafide top ten hit!

All Format Full-Priced Games Top 10 for the w/e October 18:

1. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
2. Wii Fit Plus (Wii)
3. Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (Wii)
4. Halo 3: ODST (360)
5. Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
6. Wii Play (Wii)Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (DS)
7. FIFA 10 (PS3)
8. Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (DS)
9. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (360)
10. Brütal Legend (360)

Aussie Charts: Scribblenauts Plays Chart Chicken

David Wildgoose — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:00:19 +0000

It’s possible there were queues like this outisde game stores around the country last week. Yes, that’s Scribblenauts entering the top ten two weeks after release.

For those unaware, that ridiculous red “rooster hat” was handed out as promo merch and preorder swag for the launch of Scribblenauts. The game just missed out on featuring in last week’s top ten, but it makes amends this time around with a creditable 10th place showing.

Predictably, Halo 3: ODST regains the #1 slot from FIFA 10, while EA Sports Active makes a surprise return, presumably on the back of some heavy discounting and the odd soft bundle.

All Format Full-Priced Games Top 10 for the w/e October 11:

1. Halo 3: ODST (360)
2. FIFA 10 (PS3)
3. Wii Fit (Wii)
4. FIFA 10 (360)
5. Wii Play (Wii)
6. Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (DS)
7. EA Sports Active (Wii)
8. Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
9. Need For Speed: Shift (PS3)
10. Scribblenauts (DS)