UKIE Week 12 2012 UK Video Games Charts

 
‘FIFA Street’ (-44%) holds on to top spot in the Entertainment Software Top 40 this week, helping publisher EA score nine All Format No1s so far this year across 5 different titles. It is an improvement on this time last year, when they managed five weeks at No1 across 4 different titles. Capcom breaks up EA’s monopoly of the Top 4, debuting at No2 with ‘Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City’ – 60% of sales were on XB360 and 40% on PS3 (3 years ago RE5 launched with 55% on XB360 and 45% on PS3). EA has to settle for the next 3 positions with previous chart toppers ‘Mass Effect 3’ (-55%) down one place to No3, ‘FIFA 12’ (+8%) a non-mover at No4 and ‘SSX’ (-31%) slipping 2 places to No5. ‘Modern Warfare 3’ (+12%) is still battling it out in the Top 10, climbing 4 places to No6, while Nintendo’s new 3DS title ‘Kid Icarus: Uprising’ swoops in at No7, re-igniting a franchise dormant for over 20 years. It’s Nintendo’s only Top 10 title this week as ‘Mario Party 9’ (-39%) drops out of the Top 10, down from No5 to No13. Price promotion lifts ‘Battlefield 3’ (+31%) and ‘F1 2011’ (+19%) back into the Top 10 at No’s 8 and 9 respectively, while Sega’s ‘Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games’ (-23%) falls 4 places to No10. There are only 2 other Top 40 newcomers this week – ‘Shogun 2: Total War – Fall of the Samurai’ at No17 and ‘Ninja Gaiden 3’ at No19.
 
Top 40 Entertainment Software (All Prices), Week Ending 24 March 2012

  1. FIFA STREET - ELECTRONIC ARTS
  2. RESIDENT EVIL: OPERATION RACCOON CITY - CAPCOM
  3. MASS EFFECT 3 - ELECTRONIC ARTS
  4. FIFA 12 - ELECTRONIC ARTS
  5. SSX - ELECTRONIC ARTS
  6. CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3 - ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
  7. KID ICARUS: UPRISING - NINTENDO
  8. BATTLEFIELD 3 - ELECTRONIC ARTS
  9. F1 2011 - CODEMASTERS
  10. MARIO & SONIC LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES - SEGA
  11. ASSASSIN'S CREED: REVELATIONS - UBISOFT
  12. FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 - SQUARE ENIX EUROPE
  13. MARIO PARTY 9 - NINTENDO
  14. THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM - BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
  15. RAGE - BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
  16. SAINTS ROW: THE THIRD - THQ
  17. SHOGUN 2: TOTAL WAR FALL OF THE SAMURAI - SEGA
  18. UNCHARTED 3: DRAKE'S DECEPTION - SONY COMPUTER ENT.
  19. NINJA GAIDEN 3 - TECMO KOEI EUROPE
  20. ZUMBA FITNESS - 505 GAMES
  21. RAYMAN ORIGINS - UBISOFT
  22. MOSHI MONSTERS: MOSHLING ZOO - MIND CANDY
  23. FORZA MOTORSPORT 4 - MICROSOFT
  24. PORTAL 2 - ELECTRONIC ARTS
  25. JUST DANCE 3 - UBISOFT
  26. SKYLANDERS: SPYRO'S ADVENTURE - ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
  27. LEGO HARRY POTTER: YEARS 5-7 - WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
  28. SUPER MARIO 3D LAND - NINTENDO
  29. UFC UNDISPUTED 3 - THQ
  30. ZUMBA FITNESS 2 - 505 GAMES
  31. STREET FIGHTER X TEKKEN - CAPCOM
  32. MARIO KART 7 - NINTENDO
  33. SONIC GENERATIONS - SEGA
  34. HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED ANNIVERSARY - MICROSOFT
  35. LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
  36. TWISTED METAL - SONY COMPUTER ENT.
  37. BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY - WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
  38. THE SIMS 3 - ELECTRONIC ARTS
  39. METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION - KONAMI
  40. THE SIMS 3: SHOWTIME - ELECTRONIC ARTS

 
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