World at War loses out in Live chart

By Tom Bramwell Published 19 November, 2008

Top in the UK, fourth on Xbox 360.

Call of Duty: World at War may blasted its way to the top of the UK charts this week, but the same cannot be said for Xbox Live, where its first-week performance leaves it trailing Gears of War 2, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and Halo 3.

That's all the more interesting given that it was the Xbox 360 version of World at War that sold the most copies of any game last week in the UK (the PS3 version was third, the other side of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King).

As usual, Major Nelson's blog lists the top ten and explains that it accounts for global unique users connected to Xbox Live with the full game.

Meanwhile, Worms surges to the top of the Xbox Live Arcade chart following its recent price-cut, and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 makes it up to five under the same circumstances. The other price-cutter, Feeding Frenzy, is down in the depths somewhere beyond Marble Blast Ultra at ten.

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  • DFawkes #1 3 years ago

    CoD4 is still doing better? I thought after people tried CoD:WaW out they might go back, but I thought it'd become the main CoD for a few weeks after release at least.

  • Pirotic #2 3 years ago

    Interesting, looks like a big chunk of the CoD4 fan base have opted not to get World at War (at release anyway). My opinion of the average xbox liver has just jumped up a notch, hopefully it's because they have some taste rather than them having forked out too much cash already this month on the 10/10's

  • cyacomini #3 3 years ago

    Perhaps because all the 'hardcore' live users already updated their 360's to NXE meaning no live connection..

    (until today that is!)

  • ruttyboy #4 3 years ago

    I'd imagine there aren't enough stock units produced yet to compare with the sellthrough on CoD4.

  • menage #5 3 years ago

    WaW = Mainstream WO2 game, which aren't that into live multi as the hardcore who will probably opt for a better experinece because they are more informed.

    Just like PGR will always be above NFS online. Even though it sold less.

    My theory at least.

  • penhalion #6 3 years ago

    How about the obvious. It's simply not as fun as any of the other titles mentioned

  • DAN.E.B #7 3 years ago

    PGR sold less than NFS? WTF?

  • menage #8 3 years ago

    I think PGR4 didn't really sell that well, NFS did last year if I remember it right.

  • CreepinJesus #9 3 years ago

    PGR4 never did too well.. which is a shame because it was one of, if not the, best racing games of the year. I might even push for best racer on the console!

  • Putty-Man #10 3 years ago

    Totally off topic, but stll has to be said.

    PGR4 was awesome!

  • agparrot #11 3 years ago

    These aren't sales, though, are they? It is the top ten of how many people are connected to Live playing the game, isn't it?

  • Xerx3s #12 3 years ago

    "Meh, couldn't care less about Xbox Lolve. "

    So much less that you have to respond to it.

  • beastmaster #13 3 years ago

    Perhaps just going through single player mode first?

  • Triggerhappytel #14 3 years ago

    I agree with Menage, it's probably more a case of the massively mainsteam audience who bought it aren't as hardcore or tech-savvy, and so many of them probably aren't even on XBL.

    However, you have to take into account the sales figures - CoD4 had, what, about 10 million sales, and I expect 2/3 of that was on 360. W@W might have sold a lot already, but it's still far, far less.

  • The_Inquisitor #15 3 years ago

    CoD:WaW is a great multi-player experience so I imagine many people will finally come round to it sooner or later or maybe after playing CoD4 for so long, like me, they need something a bit different.

    I haven't played it as much as I thought I would as I'm finding Far Cry 2 online a nice change of pace.