UK chart: COD batters competition

By Robert Purchese Published 15 November, 2010

UPDATE: Why Kinect Adventures is absent.

Update: Number cruncher GfK Chart-Track has explained to Eurogamer why sales of Kinect Adventures - the game the Kinect camera is bundled with - haven't been included.

Microsoft's view on this is that the Sensor sells for £129.99 and that Adventures will not be sold separately - it is a pack-in product," Chart-Track's Dorian Bloch revealed.

This is similar to Wii Sports, which was never tracked as a software item as it was never available as a solus product - only with hardware.

Original story: Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops has, predictably, obliterated all challengers in the UK all-formats chart.

This outcome was all but written last week when we heard that Black Ops had recorded the biggest day-one sales of any game ever released in UK.

A whopping 1.4 million copies of the Vietnam War game were sold in just 24 hours here.

Treyarch's shooter is top, then, and a majority 56 per cent of copies were sold on Xbox 360.

FIFA is second, Just Dance 2 third and the first Kinect newcomer Kinect Sports fourth.

Football Manager 2011 is fifth, Professor Layton and the Lost Future sixth and Fallout: New Vegas seventh.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii, The Sims 3 and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II rounded out the top 10.

There's no sign of the Kinect hardware-bundled game Kinect Adventures. The rest of the Kinect slate performed like this: Dance Central is 13th, MotionSports 15th, Fighters Uncaged 23rd, Kinectimals 26th, Kinect Joy Ride 30th, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 33rd and Sonic Free Riders 38th.

Remember, Eurogamer's review of the Kinect hardware and the launch line-up of games can be found on the homepage right now.

Sonic Colours had a disappointing first week way down in 36th. Fable III fell rapidly this week from third to 16th. Lionhead's game lead the UK all-formats chart two weeks ago.

Eurogamer TV goes to the Kinect launch.

This Week Last Week Title Platform(s)
1 New entry Call of Duty: Black Ops DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
2 2 FIFA 11 DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
3 4 Just Dance 2 Wii
4 New entry Kinect Sports Xbox 360
5 1 Football Manager 2011 PC
6 5 Professor Layton and the Lost Future DS
7 6 Fallout: New Vegas PC, PS3, Xbox 360
8 6 New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii
9 10 The Sims 3 DS, (PC, PS3, Xbox 360
10 9 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
11 11 WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2011 PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
12 12 Wii Party Wii
13 New entry Dance Central Xbox 360
14 8 Medal of Honor PC, PS3, Xbox 360
15 New entry MotionSports Xbox 360
16 3 Fable III Xbox 360
17 16 Wii Fit Plus Wii
18 14 Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
19 15 Wii Sports Resort Wii
20 13 GoldenEye 007 Wii
21 24 Halo: Reach Xbox 360
22 18 007: Blood Stone PC, PS3, Xbox 360
23 New entry Fighters Uncaged Xbox 360
24 20 F1 2010 PC, PS3, Xbox 360
25 17 New Super Mario Bros. DS
26 New entry Kinectimals Xbox 360
27 19 Just Dance Wii
28 27 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
29 21 Toy Story 3 PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
30 New entry Kinect Joy Ride Xbox 360
31 22 The X-Factor PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
32 25 Red Dead: Redemption PS3, Xbox 360
33 New entry Your Shape: Fitness Evolved Xbox 360
34 26 Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
35 28 Mario Kart Wii Wii
36 New entry Sonic Colours DS, Wii
37 29 Super Mario Galaxy 2 Wii
38 New entry Sonic Free Riders Xbox 360
39 33 LEGO Batman DS, PC, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
40 34 Sports Champions PS3
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  • carlitoswagon #1 2 years ago

    A 360 patch to fix hit recognition would be more welcome news.

  • J0rdan_KZ #2 2 years ago

    First good Sonic game in years and it performs poorly. Shame! :(

    I'm actually really pissed about Black Ops for one reason. They seriously fucked up the local split screen multiplayer. I know, I know, no one plays that any more. But me and my friends get together and actually play it split screen. A lot. I managed to prestige twice just playing split screen on Modern Warfare 2.

    What did Treyach do? Remove all progression, remove all the customisation to the play lists, get rid of player positions on the map (trust me, this is very useful with only 4 players) and generally make it pointless to play.

    Cheers guys :(
    Edited by J0rdan_KZ at 15/11/10 @ 09:43

  • coolbritannia #3 2 years ago

    360 is the console of choice for shooters, I'm picking Kinect up for Xmas too. Good times.

  • kobashi #4 2 years ago

    SEGA Europe need to improve their marketing big time. The casual game has no idea Sonic Colours has even been released.

    Has anyone seen any promotion for this at all?

  • evild_edd #5 2 years ago

    A few comments on the Kinect sales then:

    Surprising to see Kinect Sports well above Dance Central, but that may be down to the existing 360 demographic perhaps being more inclined to kicking footballs than shaking booty.....

    MS and Rare will be happy with the sales no doubt. Will be interesting to see whether the sales remain as 'sticky' as those of the Wii equivalents.

    As for no Kinect Adventures, I assume these sale are not included due to the title being sold alongside the hardware. If so, this is a little odd as Kinect is technically a peripheral, an I seem to recall Wii Play having chart representation alongside controller sales for months.

  • evild_edd #6 2 years ago

    As for Sonic Colours - tough week for that release. Might well be a slow burner though. SEGA will need to up the promotion, however....

  • captain_Carl #7 2 years ago

    After MS's pushing of the 360 version of COD, that is a VERY close split, IMO

  • dadrester #8 2 years ago

    I think that has to be, possibly the worst EG pun this year!

  • darkmorgado #9 2 years ago

    I turned on my xbox Saturday morning to play Fallout and all my mates were playing COD. ALL of them.

    Thoroughly depressing

    Same here. Literally everyone on my firends list over the weekend was playing Codblops, apart from one person who was playing, split/second.

  • Mkwone #10 2 years ago

    Won't make joke just for the halibut.

    That's so bad i laughed.

  • geeza2020 #11 2 years ago

    I'm boycotting COD this year. I'm going with Haddock instead.

    ahem.

  • toa_boa #12 2 years ago

    Impressive sales for Kinect Sports, and a very nice secondary indicator of how the hardware performed in the UK.

  • lennon #13 2 years ago

    @captain_carl - I would imagine MS are pretty happy leaving the PC and PS3 version to fight over 44%

  • feistycheese #14 2 years ago

    Wish Eurogamer would stop carping on about COD, the games got no sole . . .

    *get me coat*

  • Freek #15 2 years ago

    Activission fishing for compliments from it's shareholders.

  • Goodfella #16 2 years ago

    360 is the console of choice for shooters

    Eh? Sales are pretty close between the platforms, and considering there are slightly less PS3 owners out there that makes it pretty even to me.

  • Classique #17 2 years ago

    "There's no sign of the Kinect hardware-bundled game Kinect Adventures."

    Why the hell would there be? Its a barcodeless pack-in product, and doesn't qualify for the chart in its current form.

  • witchdrash #18 2 years ago

    Wow how out of date am I, I'm still playing Fable 3

  • Das_Ginge #19 2 years ago

    @fiesty

    Yeah they always seem to do it from some perch....

  • andywilkie35 #20 2 years ago

    Good to see Professor Layton still in the mix - fantastic game

  • muscleblade #21 2 years ago

    Black ops was released on more than 3 platforms wasnt it? I would think all versions i counted. DS and Wii versions too.

  • FreakyZoid #22 2 years ago

    > Thoroughly depressing

    Yeah, fucking depresses me to see people enjoying themselves. Those wankers. Why can't they enjoy the same games I do?

  • dwalker109 #23 2 years ago

    Ahhhh, CoD elitism. For the Velvet Underground fans of the gaming world.
    Edited by dwalker109 at 15/11/10 @ 11:03

  • alimokrane #24 2 years ago

    56% on 360 does not mean it's 44% on PS3, dont forget the PC version!

    in any case, depressing times indeed.... btw How come Kinect Adventures is not there, is it not counted because it's bundled with hardware? was Wii sports included?

    EDIT: saw the update now!
    The US does include them though. I actualy agree with not including them as they inflate software sales and attach ratios.
    Edited by alimokrane at 15/11/10 @ 11:04

  • Lee_Morris #25 2 years ago

    VG247 are reporting that the cod tie rate is 56% to the 360 and 44% to the PS3. That is a hell of a lot closer than I expected.

  • jag10 #26 2 years ago

    Xbox wii60.

  • geeza2020 #27 2 years ago

    please dont feed the trolls.

  • rivuzu #28 2 years ago

    No love for Kens Rage it seems. ):

  • des #29 2 years ago

    Actually 360 is 55% and PS3 is 42%...check Chart Track website

  • evild_edd #30 2 years ago

    Eurogamer: Now we've had clarification on why Kinect Adventures wasn't included (and that's a fair enough reason), is there any indication from Chart Track as to where it would have placed if included (so we can work out how many Kinects were sold week one)?

    Obviously would've been at least one place higher than Kinect Sports.....

  • arcam #31 2 years ago

    Black Ops has sold pretty poorly on PC by all accounts.

    Activision have realised PC gamers don't seem to be as excited about Call of Duty as consolers, but the lack of dinosaurs in Black Ops proves they no longer listen to their fanbase... <a href="http://i.imgur.com/w9MAc.png
    ">http://i.imgur.com/w9MAc.png
    </a>
    Edited by arcam at 15/11/10 @ 11:34

  • lockload #32 2 years ago

    the ps3 version of black ops is a sub, sub hd mess with 10fps less freamerate and crap 3d compared to the 360 im not surprised it sold better on 360

    I recon the ps3 is at about 30% with the other 15 to 20% on pc

  • roz123 #33 2 years ago

    The pc version is 5th in the individual formats chart

    http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c...
    Edited by roz123 at 15/11/10 @ 11:36

  • GamesConnoisseur #34 2 years ago

    Er if X360 55%, PS3 42% then that leaves only measly 3% for PC and Wii?!

    Is that seriously real?

    PC getting less than 3%?

    I realise a lot of software on PC are sold via download but that 3% manages to tells a lot of a story about all the PC owners who swore that download distribution future is still only a dream and not a reality to be completely wrong or that PC sales are indeed that very bad?

    I prefer the possibility of the former, basically from my experience as I purchases 95 percent of my PC games online such as GoG and Steam.

  • gjgjg #35 2 years ago

    PES 10 @ 18? PES11?

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #36 2 years ago

    Eurogamer: Now we've had clarification on why Kinect Adventures wasn't included (and that's a fair enough reason), is there any indication from Chart Track as to where it would have placed if included (so we can work out how many Kinects were sold week one)?

    Trying to find these exact things out and more. It's a tricky business - bit cagey with numbers around these parts.

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #37 2 years ago

    The percentage break-up for COD is a bit odd.

    On the Chart-Track website they state that the Xbox 360 sold 55%. Yet on the documents released with the full run down we're told 54% Xbox 360 standard edition plus 2% for another Xbox 360 edition (presumably collectors). Thus, 56%.

    On the documents, PS3 has sold 41%, whereas on the website that percentage is 42%.

    And yes - the bulk of PC sales are done digitally. NPD tracks this but not Chart-Track. Steam's not generally in the habit of releasing numbers either.



  • Gambit1977 #38 2 years ago

    I can't believe how little there is left before Christmas.

  • Sid-Nice #39 2 years ago

    The chart is full of Xbox 360 Wiggle-ware shit...

    Hardcore gamers "My Arse" I'll be checking out on LIVE to see who is playing what?

  • lennon #40 2 years ago

    What does a hardcore gamer look like.

    I have a picture in my head and it aint pretty.

  • dadrester #41 2 years ago

    lol @ arcam's link

  • dadrester #42 2 years ago

    lol @ arcam's link

  • Machetazo #43 2 years ago

    I feel bad for the makers of Sonic Colours :(

  • Farzlepot #44 2 years ago

    I remember a time when, back in the days as a PC gamer, I would have splurged myself over a game like CoD: BO.

    Unfortunately it's popular now, though. And if there's one thing gamers can't deal with, it's popular things.

  • Toothball #45 2 years ago

    I wouldn't own Kinect Adventures if it weren't included with the sensor. Would have liked to have seen Dance Central go a bit higher, but it seems to be doing better than Rock Band 3 at least.