UK charts: Tiger roars to the top

By Robert Purchese Published 13 July, 2009

Conduit can't do it for Wii.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 swings into the UK all-formats chart top spot, knocking two-week champ Fight Night Round 4 down to two.

Film tie-ins Transformers and Harry Potter, which opens in cinemas this week, take three and four respectively.

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood holds strong at five, tailed by Wii Fit at six, Virtua Tennis 2009 at seven and The Sims 3 at eight. Somehow Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is back in the top 10 at nine, while Prototype rounds the list off at 10.

The highest newcomer this week is Wii-exclusive The Conduit, which fails to spark much of a reaction at 29. Our Conduit review sheds light on why.

Trine, another new release, is nowhere to be found - as is the Oblivion/BioShock double-pack.

Elsewhere the downfall of Overlord II gains pace, tumbling from 18 to 33, and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite at 38 still struggles to find Japan-like success.

This Week Last Week Title Platform(s)
1 2 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
2 1 Fight Night Round 4 PS3, Xbox 360
3 3 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
4 10 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
5 6 Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood PC, PS3, Xbox 360
6 4 Wii Fit Wii
7 9 Virtua Tennis 2009 PS3, Xbox 360
8 7 The Sims 3 PC
9 12 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Xbox 360, PS3, PC, DS
10 8 Prototype PC, PS3, Xbox 360
11 5 UFC 2009: Undisputed PS3, Xbox 360
12 11 Grand Slam Tennis Wii
13 14 EA Sports Active Wii
14 16 Mario Kart Wii Wii
15 13 Call of Duty: World at War PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS
16 15 Professor Layton and the Curious Village DS
17 17 FIFA 09 PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS
18 20 Pokémon Platinum DS
19 25 Guitar Hero: World Tour Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii
20 21 Wii Play Wii
21 22 Red Faction: Guerrilla PS3, Xbox 360
22 27 Fallout 3 DLC Pack 1: Operation: Anchorage & The Pitt PC, Xbox 360
23 26 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Wii, DS
24 24 inFamous PS3
25 19 Ghostbusters PS2, PS3
26 33 SEGA Superstars Tennis DS, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
27 Re-entry Buzz! Master Quiz PSP
28 23 Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
29 New entry The Conduit Wii
30 32 Carnival: Funfair Games Wii
31 Re-entry Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs PC, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360
32 Re-entry Mario Kart DS DS
33 18 Overlord II PC, PS3, Xbox 360
34 Re-entry Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Autobots DS
35 30 Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings DS, PS2, PSP, Wii
36 34 My Fitness Coach Wii
37 40 Football Manager 2009 PC
38 28 Monster Hunter Freedom Unite PSP
39 36 Grand Theft Auto IV Xbox 360, PS3, PC
40 31 MySims Racing DS, Wii

Leisure software charts compiled by Gfk Chart-Track, ©2008 ELSPA (UK) Ltd.

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  • emaxel #1 3 years ago

    Tiger Woods 10 for Wii with M+ is simply great.

  • Santino #2 3 years ago

    i'm going to have to pick tiger wii with M+ up at some point. heard too much good stuff about it from users, wasn't really waiting on a review but it would have been nice!

  • Darren #3 3 years ago

    @Sniper_Fox - You mean the Wii version of Tiger Woods still has borders? I noticed them in Tiger Woods 08 but I'd have expected them to have gone for the later games. Tut.

    One of the brilliant things about the move to HD gaming on the 360 and PS3 is that all games now run at 60 Hz on HDTVs and no longer have top and bottom borders (unless intentional, say, for cutscenes, etc.).

  • Santino #4 3 years ago

    thanks for the warning sniper_fox, will hold off and buy it on the cheap now i think. there is no excuse for not even supporting 480p.

  • Burkey123 #5 3 years ago

    Was The Conduit not out just 3 days ago? Surely 29 isnt bad then?

  • woodnotes #6 3 years ago

    Burkey123, you'd be slaughtered on NeoGAF for saying that.

    ALL games come out on Fridays.

  • stevetuck #7 3 years ago

    I still find it weird that people dont buy the proper games for the wii then complain about the amount of shovelware it gets... if people bought the bloody games then more people would make them... Why spend millions on a half decent game when Hello Kitty Beach Party Sing-a-Long would sell more :/

  • xandaca #8 3 years ago

    Conduit's sales are a new IP with zero advertising, based on one (maybe two) days on the shelves. It's certainly not going to be a big hit by any standards, but it should get a jump for next week's chart once it has had some time to establish itself.
    Edited by xandaca at 13/07/09 @ 15:30

  • penhalion #9 3 years ago

    The conduit is crap! I bought it on friday. Played it yesterday for a few hours and got severe motion sickness from using the rediculous lock-on feature and the totally annoying shooting and aiming mechanics. The all seeing eye thing, where you scan the room for identical switch nodes every few minutes is best left undiscussed!

    I haven't had such bad motion sickness with a game since the original doom screen wobble so I traded it in today for Bound in blood.

  • KDR_11k #10 3 years ago

    Is there a platform breakdown for Tiger somwhere? Would be interesting how many of those sales came from the Wii and how many had the WMP bundled in.

    penhalion: You use the lock-on? I just shoot manually. The default side pan is very annoying though, I've disabled that, only really useful for up/down aiming. What annoys me more is the bad handling of lag online, no idea why a 50€ retail game drops the framerate for a game with Americans when an 8€ WiiWare game (Water Warfare) can run fluidly with players from Japan.

  • secombe #11 3 years ago

    I still find it weird that people dont buy the proper games for the wii then complain about the amount of shovelware it gets.

    What's a "proper game", out of interest? Please, please don't say an FPS or similar shooter.

    Tiger Woods and Grand Slam Tennis are proper games, and happen to be very, very good on the Wii. Both are selling well, what's the problem?

  • Progguitarist #12 3 years ago

    Condloluit?

  • smelly #13 3 years ago

    >Tiger Woods 10 for Wii with M+ is simply great.

    I agree.. and i hate golf!

  • smelly #14 3 years ago

    >I still find it weird that people dont buy the proper games for the wii

    Erm, im pretty sure "proper" games like mario galaxy and smash bros sold shit loads. Also of note is "proper" games link gran slam tennis in the chart.

    I only presume you're pissed that conduit (Which by all accounts looks a bit dire) didnt sell?


  • Zaltan #15 3 years ago

    Why are EA sports games coming out in the Summer now?

  • Darren #16 3 years ago

    I'm thinking that stevetuck is referring to the kind of games hardcore gamers want when he refers to "proper" games not the casual drivel that typically passes for a Wii game these days in eight out of ten cases. It's quite depressing when great games like Okami and Zak & Wiki get ignored by the masses because it means publishers are less likely to make them.