UK chart: Fallout: New Vegas wins big
Vanquish, DJ Hero 2, MMA miss top 10.
Bethesda's new Fallout game has entered the UK all-formats chart at number one.
A considerable 60 per cent of New Vegas' sales were made on Xbox 360, with 30 per cent attributed to PS3 and 10 per cent to PC.
Fallout: New Vegas' arrival meant last week's leader, Medal of Honor, was pushed to second.
FIFA 11 dipped to third ahead of another newcomer, Professor Layton and the Lost Future on DS.
Eurogamer's Game of the Week Vanquish failed to make the top 10 and entered in 12th. EA Sports MMA and DJ Hero 2 faired worse, and spent their first weeks at 23rd and 25th respectively.
From fifth to 10th, the chart went Just Dance 2, Wii Party, Wii Sports Resort, F1 2010, PES 2011 and Dead Rising 2.
| This Week | Last Week | Title | Platform(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New entry | Fallout: New Vegas | PC, PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 2 | 1 | Medal of Honor | PC, PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 3 | 2 | FIFA 11 | DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 4 | New entry | Professor Layton and the Lost Future | DS |
| 5 | 3 | Just Dance 2 | Wii |
| 6 | 4 | Wii Party | Wii |
| 7 | 15 | Wii Sports Resort | Wii |
| 8 | 6 | F1 2010 | PC, PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 9 | 5 | Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 | PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 10 | 7 | Dead Rising 2 | PC, PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 11 | 8 | Halo: Reach | Xbox 360 |
| 12 | New entry | Vanquish | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 13 | 13 | Toy Story 3 | PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 14 | 12 | Just Dance | Wii |
| 15 | 19 | New Super Mario Bros. | DS |
| 16 | 28 | Wii Fit Plus | Wii |
| 17 | 26 | Red Dead: Redemption | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 18 | 14 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | PC, PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 19 | 21 | Mafia II | PC, PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 20 | 10 | Castlevania: Lords of Shadow | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 21 | 22 | Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock | PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 22 | 16 | Mass Effect 2 | PC, Xbox 360 |
| 23 | New entry | EA Sports MMA | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 24 | 29 | LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 | DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 25 | New entry | DJ Hero 2 | PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 26 | Re-entry | Super Smash Bros. Brawl | Wii |
| 27 | Re-entry | Forza Motorsport 3 | Xbox 360 |
| 28 | 25 | New Super Mario Bros. Wii | Wii |
| 29 | 17 | Sports Champions | PS3 |
| 30 | 24 | Super Mario Galaxy 2 | Wii |
| 31 | 11 | Enslaved: Odyssey to the West | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 32 | 31 | Art Academy | DS |
| 33 | 33 | Mario Kart Wii | Wii |
| 34 | Re-entry | Assassin's Creed II: Complete Edition | PC, PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 35 | 37 | BioShock 2 | PC, PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 36 | 27 | Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands | DS, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 37 | 9 | Narruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 38 | 23 | Dance on Broadway | Wii |
| 39 | 20 | Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 | Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 40 | 18 | WRC FIA World Rally Championship | PC, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360 |
Leisure software charts compiled by Gfk Chart-Track, ©2008 ELSPA (UK) Ltd.
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Well with Virtual DJ free editon going and maybe a little extra cash, one of the hardware controllers you can basically DJ for real. Especially with the sync function...
As for Fallout, I want but will wait until some patches have been released - the feedback across various forums makes it sound somewhat buggy, especially the PC version (which is the one I want)
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"So... it's like Gears... but without multiplayer? Why do I want this £40 singleplayer only experience?"
To which I would turn around and break their face for saying. It's beautiful.
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"Nobody's dick is that long, not even fucking Long Dick Johnson, and he had a fucking long dick"
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Edit: Located and activated Fisto last night, that was surreal.
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If you have sex with Fisto before you order him to go to Atomic Wrangler, and you have Wild Wasteland active, on your way out the building you will be ambushed by a load of grannies with rolling pins who attack you for being a "ponce".
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But Platinum seem to sell enough games worldwide. Enough for them to continue making stunning games. Which is good news for everyone.
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/sad panda
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DJ HERO 2 - 13th (XBOX360), 16th (PS3), 23rd (WII)
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The link also shows Vanquish @ 7th place. DJ2 was only released on Friday as well....
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No it isn't. http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c...
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Same thing happened with Enslaved.
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Digital sales aren't counted - so all those people that bought it on steam don't figure into these stats.
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Exclusive DLC helps then. I bought Xbox 360 version cos of two reasons - DLC and no jaggies.
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As for New Vegas, even after the patch I've experienced some very annoying bugs. The worst of these was invisible enemies, shooting at me from no where and having to use my reticle colour change to identify them. If I used VATS it would lock the game up and the only way past it was to get lucky and kill the invisible enemies, at which point they'd appear as a dead body.
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Encountered the same bug before the patches. Really damn annoying one.
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But putting it against MOH, Fallout, Fable 3, Castlevania, DR2, Enslaved etc.
Yeah, Everybody loses.
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I got DJ Hero 2 on friday as I am expecting Vanquish and EA MMA to drop pretty soon. EA have let EA MMA bomb, not seen one advert on sky sports!
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Too much games to play at the moment. Haven't even completed the first Fallout game. I'll buy New Vegas when the price drops in Spring. I need to throw that Fifa 11 away. It's eating up my gaming time and it's not even that good.
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That happens anyway, you dont need to have sex with the robot first. Sick man!!
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I've stopping playing it until these are fixed, it was wrecking the immersion IMO.
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You found youself and big hobby if you're in that quest.
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Does this chart take into account digital sales? If not then that explains it a bit.
Also like to add that i haven't experienced any noticable bugs. Except a couple of times i saw an NPC misplacing their objects, like a gun appearing inside your companions arm until you moved to a new area. Those bugs were in F3 too though. Of course there are other bugs but the game is so huge and so many different variables are involved that an average player will probably experience only a few of them at most during an average playthrough.
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To be frank, I just love Platinum, not hardcore cover shooters, so that's why.
I would rather have another Okami or Bayo.
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Pretty crazy PC is only 10% of the sales, it's by far the best version and doesn't even require a high spec machine. I swear there must be thousands of people unaware PCs can be used to play games.
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Don't feel sorry, some of us really don't care about 10 gazillion megapixels and triple buggering on the whatnot.
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It is like EA saw UFC 2010 Sales and thought we are not gonna bother promoting this game as that struggled and THQ have the biggest MMA brand in the West. Problem EA has is that UFC fans tend to just follow UFC, they are ignorant of the world of MMA and do not bother watching any other promotions. EA had one UFC fighter in Randy Coture but they never used him at all to try and push the game!
It will take huge marketing by EA to get this new brand doing some decent numbers. I am worried they may give up on MMA if it bombs in Europe and the US.
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Neither do I, really, my PC is 3 years old. But for a game with such epic scope I think it does matter. Im a console gamer mostly, but the difference is huge in NV. Framerate is way smoother too, and I think that does matter a bit.
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As for the UFC fans.. I would say that Europeans tend to have greater knowledge of the competing promotions because UFC is not present on European TV stations much. From the last year I remember only a short bio of Rapage Jackson on Eurosport, otherwise its all K-1
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"I can imagine Mr Average Joe's thoughts when it comes to Vanquish.
"So... it's like Gears... but without multiplayer? Why do I want this £40 singleplayer only experience?"
I think it's more like "Hmm, if I wait a few months I'll be able to pick that up for 20 quid just like Bayonetta by which time I will have finished Fallout"
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The truth is that most consumers aren't as educated as the people who post on specialist gamer site forums. They probably haven't heard about Vanquish, and they probably haven't heard about the issues with NV.
The flaw with your business plan (as well you know) is that people are buying NV because they had a good experience with FO3, and if they have a shitty experience with NV they are less likely to buy FO4. It takes time, but this is how all big franchises can ultimately be brought to their knees, be that Medal of Honor or Need for Speed or Tony Hawk. The great unwashed masses may not read about this stuff so much ahead of time, but they're not stupid. Give them a shitty experience, and they will stop coming back.
What this highlights is that if you have an interesting new game, and you don't have a marketing budget with a hell of a lot of zeroes a the end of it, releasing in later October is fucking moronic. It's strange that the only people who don't seem to know this are video game publishers. Someone really should tell them.
It's interesting to see DJ Hero tanking, and it will be doubly interesting to see how RB3 does in a week. Is the music genre dead, or has Rock Band simply won?
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but im using a controller for sure, I find KB/M very floaty and lacks the feeling of weight and inertia you get form controllers
sad to see vanquish not make the opt 10 even when prices are below £30, I will pick up NV when the patches are lreased
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Yeah you maybe right about EA not caring about european promotion!
EA have got more ammo in Japan then THQ did with UFC as they have Japanese fighters in the game. EA too Randy off the front cover in Japan and replaced him with Yoshida. Nobody in Japan really gives a damn about UFC to be honest!
I dont think it will do great numbers though as the MMA buzz has died in japan so it will be a hard sell. I do hope it does well as by all accounts EA has a good base with this game so a follow up could be really great.
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This bears repeating, but Chart-Track only deal with retail, not Digital Distribution. Which is kind of important if you're going to make any accurate tally of PC sales. Heck, even the NPD admitted that their PC sales stats were pretty meaningless largely because they couldn't track Digital Distribution, and they believed that DD had actually surpassed brick-and-mortar retail for PC games sales.
This is particularly important to consider when people start going talking about how the PC version didn't have pre-order DLC. The PC version did have pre-order DLC, at least on Steam, and I'm guessing other DD vendors as well.
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So fuck off.
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+1 for playing Fallout NV on the PC with a controller. Personally, I prefer it plus you get the vibration feedback. Unlike others, I've been playing it for about a dozen hours and haven't encountered any serious bugs other than a dog with its eyes hanging out (more unnerving that the mutants really!) and an NPC in the mid-distance suddently disappearing from sight. The game has not crashed either. With these sort of games though it really is blind-luck whether the game will run OK for you or not because no two people will ever play it the same way.
I'm enjoying it, it is a good game, but it is far too similar to the last one IMO. I've seen very little that is actually new and overall it feels more like an expansion than a proper sequel. Considering it is two years since the last game it is a little disappointing that it lacks a real identity of its own.
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I only have one life, after finishing "Halo Reach" and "GTA: TBOGT", I dwelved into "Red Dead Redemption" yesterday.
Toooooo many great games coming out at the same time. Backlog is absolutely unbearable.
Glad to hear "Fallout NV" is bug-infested, makes me less anxious to buy/play it soon.
I will get to "Vanquish" later, don't know when exactly though...
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Last year it was Batman, Borderlands and Brütal Legend. And the year before that it was Mirror's Edge, Dead Space and sorry Fable 2 and Gears of War 2.
Between these periods I try to buy new underated original Ip's as well and I'm buying lots of indie games as well.
Now it will be Enslaved, Vanquish and sorry, I bough Halo Reach. I wanted to buy Fable 3 instead of Reach, but my friends pushed me into buying Reach. Enjoyed Enslaved though, I hope they can afford a better sequel. Today I'm buying Vanquish, I'm not waiting for a price drop, I want to support this developer. I want to see more new Ip's, I want to see creative ideas and I'm willing to pay for that.
Although I know Vanquish doesn't have to sell as much as the next COD because of a different budget, It saddens me it doesn't. I just hope they're being profitable at least. Maybe people really want more CoD/MoH type of shooters, or maybe Sega has to advertise more? Or maybe a combination of both?
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You don't have an LCD TV?
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Was happy to see Red Dead Redemption, not totally original but we’ve been waiting for a true Western game for ages. Still can’t believe we haven’t had next gen style Street of Rage or Double Dragon. Some variety is needed but developers are playing it safe and some genres just haven’t been touched at all.
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Want Vanquish but not prepared to part with €50 for a 5 hour game. Will wait for a 22.99 price tag in HMV in 2 weeks.
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Yep can't argue with that; explains why it was so rough around the edges.
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How far is nowhere near? I've had some reasonable results from the opposite end of a lounge/diner with 10m DVI to HDMI and audio cables, and a wireless keyboard / mouse.
(apart from me constantly having to re-tell Vista and my telly that the audio isn't coming through HDMI)
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This what I do too, although I drop down through a hole in the floor from the bedroom above (and I use a 360 controller instead of a mouse). Add a USB hub on a long cable and you can plug in wireless receivers (so you don't have to worry about operational range), speakers, the usual USB sticks etc.
Do this, add XBMC, and you have nearly all the benefits of a console, none of the disadvantages, and the best home media setup you can get to boot
I used to have two separate computers but this is a much better arrangement.
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Rumours of it's death are greatly exaggerated. The charts don't track digital sales, and I can't remember the last time I bought a PC game on a disc. How quaintly 20th century!
The best they can do is estimate that digital sales now exceed hard copy sales, which would bring the PC close to in line with the PS3 at the very least. Personally, I suspect that digital PC game sales now completely dwarf disc sales.
Discs really are just pointless clutter.
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Doesn't matter how many QA staffers you have on a project if the devs simply ignore them.
So in correction I'd probably say, "hopefully Bethesda will retire the ancient Gamebryo engine and invest the Fallout money in something that doesn't look and run like a bag of shit"
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I hoped Vanquish would do better, it's awesome! Seriously, anyone who likes action games should get it. It's scientifically proven that Vanquish makes your life better. Now I have to get back, I have robots to destroy!
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