Sony really knows how to time a release. There is no doubt that, had Uncharted 2: Among Thieves released at any other time, it would have soared to the top of the UK Chart. Unfortunately, however, Sony's latest PS3 exclusive decided to come out after FIFA 10, and as such, has been held in second place thanks to Britain's creepy obsession with soccer ... and yes I meant to call it soccer.
Aside from that, it's more or less business as usual. As always, you can hit the jump and see what the Brits have been buying this week, which is more or less the same thing they buy every week. It amazes me that in such a small island, everybody doesn't own two copies of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games by now.
- FIFA 10
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
- Wii Sports Resort
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
- Need for Speed: Shift
- Brutal Legend
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box
- Halo 3: ODST
- Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
- Wii Fit
- Super Smash Bros: Brawl
- Star Wars: Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
- Guitar Hero 5
- Mario Kart Wii
- Gran Turismo
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Brain Training
- Dirt 2
- Up
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9:20 AM on 10.19.2009
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WTF, britain, WTF?
Although could anything top madden in the few weeks after it's release?
The world is full of sheeple, they buy a lot of videogames these days.
@Chronic
There is no such thing as Soccer, it's the same as most American words - as a country you were too stupid to make up your own language so you bastardised everyone elses.
@Relic Kylias
Geeks, damn geeks
(Also United fan (: )
Search: "binocular soccer" - way more fun than watching unecducated, borderline retarded millionaires, kicking a fucking ball around and trying to look injured.
Yay for pointless "soccer" argument. Stop baiting us, Sterling.
Where's my trollface image....
rugby is way better than football
order of manly
football < American football < rugby
(btw Ireland ftw)
You talk as though half the words in the English lanuage weren't 'bastardised' from other languages in the first place.
Seriously, it should be the Daily Mail that shames you this week, not the friggin' puter charts!! ;o)
only sports im even remotely interested in are hockey(play alot of NHL09,5 seasons in) and lacrosse.
Theres an "Up" game?
Fifa > U2 for one week or U2 sells in first week in North America? Could even do both, but then that would be really providing all around news...
Honestly, this is like saying a Final Fantasy game released the same week as U2 would sell more
And, honestly, who cares about first week sales when it's kind of obvious that most PS3 users who would ever considering picking up U2 will pick it up. Just because they pick up Fifa first really doesn't matter.
youve won a red card just for that football bashing
or just plain out an uncoordinated flop.
football or soccer as the U.S. calls it
is the most enduring exercise one can engage in
there are 90 min of running the with one break in the middle thats it
you know how many people play football all over the world...
all of them that aren't fat lazy or retarded
but i digress
fifa is selling so well because
international football (soccer) is THE BIGGEST SPORT IN THE WORLD.
p.s. thats why you wont see anyone from the NFL in the Olympics
Glory,glory Man United..........
http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110032
Also, FIFA may be like a homing beacon for chavs but for the past couple of years it's actually been a good game and has been a critical success. All things considered there have been worse games sitting at the top of the charts that are much more deserving of our ire than FIFA is.
Individual charts have U2:AT sitting pretty at number one.
seriously? That's like the only game that was released on PS3 in October, so yeah, I would expect it to be No.1 on PS3 only chart. Please, think before you write!
The fact is that individual format charts remain a more consistent way of comparing the sales of different games than All-formats charts. Since a game like FIFA which is released on PS2, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii and DS can't be directly compared with a game like Uncharted that is only released on one platform or even Brutal Legend which is only released on 2 consoles. It's for this same reason that when the NPD release their North American sales numbers later today it will be as an individual formats chart.
I suppose all other companies were stupid to put out their games during the 50 weeks that Wii Fit was at the top of the charts?
I doubt it would have sold much more without FIFA on the charts at all.
Also, yes Soccer/Football is an incredibly athletic and skillful sport, but that doesn't mean it isn't still boring as fuck.
Sorry, world at large. I'll never understand your infatuation with a game that's almost as boring as Baseball.
Also, Baseball is god-awful.
you hate football AND baseball?!
stop living now... pl0x, kthnxbai
Stupid.
I for one, hear good things about Fifa 10, however I refuse to pay full launch game price for the next itteration of an anual sports game, you know the one's they literally give away pre-owned in a year.
Point is get over yourselves, Britain is just a bunch of loud mouth pricks that clings on to the fact they were an empire hundreds of years ago and are now irrelevant. You guys and the French should hang out :)
STFUAJPG!