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EA has shown that Need for Speed still has pulling power as new game Shift debuts at the top of the UK All-Formats Chart.
Of the platforms the game is available on, PS3 takes the biggest bite of the sales pie with 52 per cent. That leaves 44 per cent for Xbox 360 and five per cent for PC and PSP.
As a result, last week's top finishers are nudged down a spot: Guitar Hero 5 moves to two, Colin McRae: DiRT 2 slides to three, Batman: Arkham Asylum rolls to four and Wii Sports Resort bounces to five.
Bethesda's WET joins the fray at six, which means The Beatles: Rock Band falls three spots to seven. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Wii Fit and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 round out the top 10.
There are two other new entries in the top 40: SingStar Mototown at 36 and NHL 10 at 37. Katmari Forever only manages 28 in the PS3-specific chart, and MotorStorm: Arcitic Edge debuts at three on the PSP list. Heroes Over Europe is another that misses the top 40 entirely.
Oldies Quantum of Solace and Far Cry 2 spring back to life, however - re-appearing at 16 and 19 respectively. They must be part of a very enticing deal.
| This Week | Last Week | Title | Platform(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New entry | Need for Speed: Shift | PC, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360 |
| 2 | 1 | Guitar Hero 5 | PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 3 | 2 | Colin McRae: DiRT 2 | DS, PC, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 4 | 3 | Batman: Arkham Asylum | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 5 | 6 | Wii Sports Resort | Wii |
| 6 | New entry | WET | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 7 | 4 | The Beatles: Rock Band | PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 8 | 8 | Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | Xbox 360, PS3, PC, DS |
| 9 | 5 | Wii Fit | Wii |
| 10 | 11 | Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 | PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 11 | 7 | IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey | DS, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360 |
| 12 | 12 | Fight Night Round 4 | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 13 | 9 | Mario Kart Wii | Wii |
| 14 | 13 | Championship Manager 2010 | PC |
| 15 | 15 | Mini Ninjas | DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 16 | Re-entry | Quantum of Solace | DS, PC, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 17 | 10 | Ashes Cricket 2009 | PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 18 | 14 | Call of Duty: World at War | PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS |
| 19 | Re-entry | Far Cry 2 | PC, PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 20 | 19 | LEGO Batman | DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 21 | 20 | Brain Training | DS |
| 22 | 18 | Grand Theft Auto IV | Xbox 360, PS3, PC |
| 23 | 24 | Professor Layton and the Curious Village | DS |
| 24 | 31 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 25 | 26 | Guitar Hero: World Tour | Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii |
| 26 | 33 | SEGA Superstars Tennis | DS, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 27 | 21 | Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood | PC, PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 28 | 28 | Killzone 2 | PS3 |
| 29 | 25 | FIFA 09 | PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS |
| 30 | 29 | Mario Kart DS | DS |
| 31 | 27 | The Sims 3 | PC |
| 32 | 23 | G-Force | DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 33 | 36 | Sonic Unleashed | PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 34 | 17 | Wolfenstein | PC, PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 35 | 16 | Dissidia: Final Fantasy | PSP |
| 36 | New entry | SingStar: Motown | PS2, PS3 |
| 37 | New entry | NHL 10 | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 38 | 30 | Wii Play | Wii |
| 39 | 40 | Halo 3 | Xbox 360 |
| 40 | 32 | Mystery Stories | DS, PC |
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Comments: 1-28 of 28 in total
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Kill_Crazy
21/09/09 @ 09:25
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The missus wants this but unless she's willing to pay then i want a demo first ;) Supercar is more my style.
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PlugMonkey
21/09/09 @ 09:55
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I struggle to see how Modern Warfare is still in the top 10. Good game and all that, but still......
It's mind boggling. Looking on play.com and the like, it doesn't even look to have been reduced in price! |
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donnie080208
21/09/09 @ 09:58
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good to see two very polished excellent games from the racing genre in the top 5. NFS shift has surprisingly sold more on ps3, i suspect with the release of the slim ,new owners have been buying a well know franchise to go along with the system. I also think a lot of 360 owners are waiting for HALO odst next week and forza3 next mth ,while ps3 owners dont have a solid date for gt5.(which may slip to 2010)
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DrRobotnik
21/09/09 @ 10:16
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"NFS shift has surprisingly sold more on ps3"
You're surprised? NFS has traditionally been a very 'PlayStation' focussed title. I think that without the die-hard NFS fans this game would have performed very averagely. That's not to say it's a bad game, just that recent iterations have put a lot of gamers off the franchise. |
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"NFS shift has surprisingly sold more on ps3"
it was advertised as a playstation game, must have helped. "and I'd guess the Slim is still selling like hotcakes. " in fact it was in those adverts and i'd imagine it's still selling well so soon after launch so must have helped.
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Its not much of achievement to top Beatles second week sales...but i am not surprised, NFS games have always attracted lots of attention among racing fanatics.
"Is there any way of tracking how many of those copies get traded in next week? " Watch second week sales,massive drop in sales will indicate lots of used copies on the market. Chart Track tracks only "new" games. |
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DrRobotnik
21/09/09 @ 11:51
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"The 'popular = chav' stance bores me to fucking tears. Give it a rest."
Sayings all come from somewhere. And I find it fitting that NFS shift was advertised all over lads-mags etc. What demographic do you think EA were aiming at? |
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PlugMonkey
21/09/09 @ 12:34
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What demographic do you think EA were aiming at?
Young men. It's a game about cars. Who do you think they would aim it at? 40-50 year old female divorcees? Not every male between the age of 15 and 30 is a chav, I think was the point. |
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Need for Speed SHIFT is good so it's a shame people are dissing it on the basis of the last few much poorer games. It'd be very good on my PC if it actually worked in Vista 64-bit without crashing but it doesn't so I have to boot up Windows 7 just to play it!
In 7 though it's fun, fast, thrilling and rewarding so I've no real complaints about it except for the twitchy handling on corners. Soon got used to that though. Compared with the woeful ProStreet and Undercover, SHIFT is a classic! :) |
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The 'popular = chav' stance bores me to fucking tears. Give it a rest.
Given that for many years the NFS series had nothing to do with decent driving and everything to do with trying to impress sluts in hotpants by putting a mile-high spoiler and 12" wide exhaust on your car it's understandable that people still make that assumption. They've probably put enough people off the series with that self-inflicted stereotype that it will always have that image to some people. It's in much the same way that there are people in the PES threads saying FIFA 10 is unresponsive licensed shite. It will take the new EA time to fully undo the damage they did to their reputation in the bad days. Whilst I'm EA's biggest fan in recent years and can't give them enough praise for the speed and quality of their transition from evil to brilliant, I can sympathise with those who are still a little weary. So it's not "popular = chav", it's "used to be really chav = presumed to still be chav" |
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DrRobotnik
21/09/09 @ 12:53
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"Not every male between the age of 15 and 30 is a chav, I think was the point."
No, but then who said that everyone who bought the game was a chav? The fact is, Chavs buy games, right? And as racing games go they don't get much more 'chavvy' than the old NFS series. The new one is likely riding on the success of the brand name (and, by extention, its followers) because it's sure not riding on the success of the piss-poor recent iterations. |
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I agree with donnie080208 that I think Forza's release next month, with Demo this week, means 360 owners are more likely to wait - certainly for me it was between this, Forza 3 & Dirt 2 on 360, so I pre-ordered Dirt (which I really like) and will probably get Forza 3. NFS I think looks good - and I'm sure I don't fit in the 'Chav' category, but I'm afraid it will have to wait. Maybe a Christmas present if the demo (assuming there will be one) is any good! Otherwise it will be when it's cheap. I think not releasing a demo may have been a real mistake as this would have been the one way to prove the game really is better.
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