FIFA dominates Spain, Germany

By Robert Purchese Published 8 October, 2007

Halo also strong in Euro charts.

FIFA 08 and Halo 3 made up the majority of the Spanish and German charts this week, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

According to data from Media-Control GfK, FIFA 08 held first, third, eighth and tenth in Spain; and first, second, fifth and sixth in Germany.

Halo 3 came in second in Spain and third in Germany, with Limited and Legendary Editions featuring further down.

MySims on DS, Heavenly Sword and WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007 Platinum were the other top-ten inhabitants in Spain; Germany saw The Settlers: Rise of an Empire, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, The Sims 2: Bon Voyage and More Brain Training mix up the list.

Spain looks like this:

  1. FIFA 08 (PS2)
  2. Halo 3 (X360)
  3. FIFA 08 (PS3)
  4. Halo 3: Limited Edition (X360)
  5. WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2007 Platinum (PS2)
  6. My Sims (DS)
  7. Heavenly Sword (PS3)
  8. FIFA 08 (PSP)
  9. Halo 3: Legendary Edition (X360)
  10. FIFA 08 (X360)

Germany looks like this:

  1. FIFA 08 (PS2)
  2. FIFA 08 (PC)
  3. Halo 3 (X360)
  4. The Settlers: Rise of an Empire (PC)
  5. FIFA 08 (PS3)
  6. FIFA 08 (X360)
  7. Halo 3: Limited Edition (X360)
  8. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (PC)
  9. The Sims 2: Bon Voyage! (PC)
  10. Dr Kawashima: More Brain Training (DS)

If GamesIndustry.biz was a chart, each week would be dominated by fact.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (22) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • JonFE #1 4 years ago

    I wonder what place would Halo 3 occupy, if they had sum the total sales of all three SKU's...

  • Santino #2 4 years ago

    probably miles behind fifa and all its sku's

  • morriss #3 4 years ago

    Those stupid Germans and their PC gaming habits! ;)
    Edited by 1 at 08/10/07 @ 16:44

  • UncleLou #4 4 years ago

    I don't know what it is with these German and Spanish all-formats charts lately, but keep it up please, they're almost impossibe to find.

  • Steroyd #5 4 years ago

    pfft looking at these charts it's insanity Sony wants to choke the PS2 to it's death.

  • Psychotext #6 4 years ago

    Fifa sells more on the PS3 than 360 in Germany / Spain even with the (currently) lower hardware sales... interesting.
    Edited by 1 at 08/10/07 @ 17:38

  • Dizzy #7 4 years ago

    Germans and Spanish in no taste shocker.

  • DjFlex52 #8 4 years ago

    "Fifa sells more on the PS3 than 360 in Germany / Spain even with the (currently) lower hardware sales... interesting."

    @Psychotext

    PS3 probably has more hardware sales in Germany & Spain than does the 360. It's in the UK where the majority of 360 consoles for Europe are being bought.

  • Xerx3s #9 4 years ago

    So how would these charts look if you didn't split the sales of H3 into three?

  • Zomoniac #10 4 years ago

    Germans and Spanish in no taste shocker.

    Someone who hasn't played FIFA 08 extensively assuming it's shit and that because it's not the nth identical iteration of Pro Evo then it can't be the best football game ever made despite the fact that it is shocker...

  • Psychotext #11 4 years ago

    @DjFlex52: Nah, we had their numbers recently and the 360 is still quite a bit ahead of the PS3.

  • zoidberg #12 4 years ago

    Actually... the Settlers 6 in the German chart is WAY more news-worthy.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #13 4 years ago

    Actually... the Settlers 6 in the German chart is WAY more news-worthy.

    Why? The series (generally strategy/sim games) does very well in Germany - it's hardly a surprise. Of course it's nice to see it up there because I love the Settlers but I never expected it to not seeing it in the charts.

  • UncleLou #14 4 years ago

    Yeah, it really isn't a big surprise - although it did get a lot of rather mediocre reviews. I was in the Saturn in Hamburg last week (allegedly "Europe's biggest mediastore";), and the number of copies they had of The Settlers was almost ridiculous. Their gaming floor is as big as a soccer field*, and half of it was filled with The Settlers, stacked hip-high.*


    *might be slight exaggerations
    Edited by 1 at 08/10/07 @ 20:00

  • Steroyd #15 4 years ago

    Xerx3s

    Probably the same if they didn't split Fifa into different formats. ;)

  • DjFlex52 #16 4 years ago

    @DjFlex52: Nah, we had their numbers recently and the 360 is still quite a bit ahead of the PS3.

    @Psychotext

    I'm surprised and as you said earlier...interesting.

  • RMXtreme #17 4 years ago

    @ UncleLou

    Soccer field???!!!

    The more charts the merrier, but are there also salenumbers to go with them?

  • Arwin #18 4 years ago

    You could say that among the 360 owners, Halo is very popular. The interesting bit is wondering whether that indicates something about the 360's mass market appeal. It's hard to tell, because Halo is an fps and fps is I think the biggest genre right now. If you look at gamercards all round, then you do see an aweful lot of fps games, from Gears, to Bioshock, to Halo, etc. It could be worrying to Microsoft, actually.

  • penguin_overlord #19 4 years ago

    In some ways it isn't surprising that sales of FIFA on PS3 exceed sales on the 360. It's mostly only in the UK and US that the 360 dominates. Europe is very pro-PlayStation on the whole, especially countries like Spain. Even in the UK, the PS3 version of FIFA tracked only one place behind the 360's (fourth place). In fact, in the UK with the PS2, PS3 and PSP versions taking up four places in the top 5 (including first for the PS2 version), it really shows how much the PlayStation brand dominates in the UK as well. The Wii version only made it to number nine (the only Wii title in the top ten) proving again that its software sales not match its impressive hardware sales.

    What's going to be interesting now is how big an impact the PS3's price drop will have on sales of FIFA in the coming weeks. Will people choose to buy that over the 360?

  • Der_tolle_Emil #20 4 years ago

    I was in Hamburg to watch "Tanz der Vampire" last year (was fantastic) and the Saturn in Hamburg is indeed huge. The saturn stores here in Austria are usually quite big as well but Hamburg is at least twice the size of the ones I know here.

    I haven't read any reviews of the game yet - I have a demo disc at home that I got at the games convention but I haven't installed it yet. A friend of mine has and it seems like they went back to the old way of building infrastructure (borders are back etc) and there was an incredible amount of buildings available. Other than that I don't know much about it; I do know however that Heritage of Kings was a very weak game and I didn't really enjoy it all that much.

  • peteb #21 4 years ago

    this sounds about right, i went into a shop here in germany and halo3 was just tucked up on the top shelf, nothing special, but fifa was all over the place

  • Yaster #22 4 years ago

    You know I had never heard the term "sku" until recently. Is it an americanism?