Bookies now taking bets on Xmas No. 1 News

Odds of 6/5? I'll be putting a tenner on that. I'll need the money for christmas pressies. I may even have enough left over for a deposit on a house.

Both AC2 and MW2 are must buys for me. Im also getting L4D2, Brutal Legend and Borderlands.

Mario & Sonic and Modern Warfare 2 will blatantly be #1 and #2... I reckon Mario and Sonic will take it.

Does Cliff Richard's Christmas Millennium Family Party Wii come with it's own mic, or can I use the one from High School Musical Wii?

Don't be daft LazyDan lol, MW2 is undoubtedly gonna set launch records even despite Activision's shocking pricing on it. It'll still be huge.

I doubt it. COD6 will be on 3 platforms by then. There is a reason that COD4 still sells for near full price these days.

Lol GT5 is there as well. Perhaps somebody should tell them that it won't be in the shops.

Odds on Wii Sport Resort?

FIFA 10 ? doesnt it always sells like hot cakes ? and FIFA is usually on every platform you can possibly think of. I remember that Need 4 Speed used to be Xmas number 1...or was it just a sales record breaker in some other way ?

I expect since the music chart Christmas number one isn't at all interesting any more they're branching out into other charts.

Mario & Sonic got the Christmas no.1 last time it was out (and it took a big jump in the last week to get there). It's the perfect choice for gamers buying gifts for their family who have a Wii and they want to play something bearable on Christmas Day rather than Scrabble.
It was 12-1 when the odds came out so clearly a lot of people think the same if it's dropped to 5-1 after a day.

It will be MW2 definately...
on pre-orders alone its already gonna fly straight into no.1

Without a doubt, it's going to be MW2.

Ass Creed will lose to Mod WAR. WAR! It has guns! Pew pew pew!

RABicle interesting or even Wii Fit Plus. It's better because it has plus in the title :-)

@mingster woudlnt those preorders count for sales in the week it is out though not at xmas

anyway the only way it's not gonna be xmas no1 is if everyone who's gonna get it gets it on launch day

I can't see beyond Mario and Sonic personally, it's hitting Wii and DS so has a huge install base to aim at, and it's the sort of game that shops will stick in console bundles.

Cliff R ... what now? Stop putting ideas in his head!
And here some of us thought Rock Band: U2 was a bad idea ...

Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games did massive amounts so Winter Olympics has got a very good chance going of the massive success of that. Plus the money Sega and Nintendo are pumping into marketing will make sure people will know about it. Plus MW2's ridiculous £55 price point and I can see the Wii taking it again. IMO I would go for

1. Mario And Sonic at the Winter Games
2. FIFA 10
3. The Beatles: Rock Band (Its going to make a huge surge back in at Christmas. Particularly on the Wii)
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 2 (Unless Tesco/Asda slash the price. Its got no chance at No.1)
5. Need For Speed: Shift
6. Assassins Creed 2
7. Forza Motorsport 3 (Gonna be a huge system Seller for Microsoft this year)
8. Tekken 6
9. Lego Rock Band (Its gonna pick up off the back of Beatles RB plus the Lego licence will easily smoke Band Hero)
10. Uncharted 2 (Sonys System Seller. Probably not as much as they will hope though)

Brutal Legend might be up there but it would depend how well its marketed and how much sales travel from October. It seems like an instant hardcore pick up though.

Everyone place a large bet on SAW and then we all go out buy it and collect a fortune! Isn't that what the internets is for?

So nobody thinks NSMB is going to make an impression?

Proffesor Layton 2, New Super Mario Bros Wii and Wii Fit pllus are all sequals to BIG sellers, so i would be surprised if they are not up there.

I would bet on WAR, but the odds have moved to 11/10 now, so not going to bother

I think NFS: Shift is a good outsider. Anybody know what the last 2/3 years no. 1s were?

I forsee a sales boost for the new PS3 this Chrimbo and lots of take up of MW2, Uncharted 2 and FIFA 10 as a result.
MW2 FTW though.

MW2 will clearly be the best-selling game on the PS3 and 360, but don't rule out the Nintentards. Lots of kids\parents have Wiis and DSs, and will be getting their annual games haul; it was impossible to get hold of the original Professor Layton last Christmas. Plus, there's always a rip-off Sims add-on that does well (though I don't know whether PC is included in their chart).
Sounds like one I might take a punt on, anyway.

@ rashes

Heres the last few up to 2002

2008: FIFA 09
2007: Call of Duty 4
2006: FIFA 07
2005: Need For Speed: Most Wanted
2004: Need For Speed: Underground 2
2003: Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
2002: GTA: Vice City

Mario and Sonic was at the top last year, wasn't it?

I remember fifa being top last year. I'm not sure it will do it again this year with many people getting copies over the launche weekend.

FIFA topped the charts as a lot of places slashed the prices on it just before Christmas as well.

Mario And Sonic at the Olympic Games was the overall best selling game of 2008 (Though that counted the DS version that was released later too)

It has to be Modern Warfare 2. Activision jacked the price up they are that confident it will sell millions.

Duh. Modern Warfare 2 it is.

I really like what I'm seeing of AC2, and will wait for Bad Company 2 rather than Modern Warfare (yay, destructible environment), but... I don't think AC2 has quite the mass appeal as just shooting people.

pah people saying that COD MW 2 wont be number one are talking NONSENSE!

despite the damn right outrageous price tag activision are giving it people will pay the price for it. the franchise has a HUGE following and the marketing around crimbo time on the telly will guarentee it a no 1 position. however mario and sonic, AC 2 and FIFA 10 will give it a run for its money
top 10 will look like this
1-MW2
2-AC 2
3-Mario and Sonic At The Winter Olympics
4-Wii Fit Plus
5-Left 4 Dead 2
6-New Super Mario Bros Wii
7-Uncharted 2 - WILL SELL BY THE BUCKET LOAD NEXT WEEKEND
8-Forza 3
9-Halo 3 ODST
10-DJ Hero

Personally i know two people who wont buying COD 6 but did buy COD 4.

However these two people also own Killzone 2 which is clearly a better more advanced shooter than COD 6 ever can dream to be. Yes i said it... flag me as a fan boy i guess i deserve that, but i won't turn my respons down i see it as the truth in anycase :)

isn't MW2 supposed to be the biggest selling game evar? i guess who gets the xmas #1 all depends on release date.

Christmas No. 1 is kind of meaningless for games seeing as hardly anything releases within a month of Christmas anyway. Zelda: Spirit Tracks should be number 1 by rights come Christmas because it's release is very close to Christmas and it will oh so definitely be an awesome game.

I doubt it will be number 1 though in reality... but it would be nice!

My bets are on MW2 of course. It's bound to be Christmas number 1 because a lot of people wanting to buy it for others at Christmas will be waiting on it to drop in price before they buy it. When they realise that it's still £45 on Christmas week there will be plenty of last minute buys.

Is anyone actually going to put any money on that at all.

at 6/5 a tenner would get you only £12 surely?

If they're actually taking real bets then it might be worth a couple of hundred to make 40 quid. Maybe.

Lol AC2 odds getting longer fast.

I could probably create a game myself in time for a christmas release that has more chance of being a No.1 than Mario and Sonic. IW are going to create an amasing gameplay experience, even if people don't agree with the network side of things.