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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:00 am 
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FIFA Street has scored a second week on top of the UK all formats chart. It managed the feat despite a 44 per cent drop in sales.
EA now has nine all format number ones so far this year, across five different titles. This time last year the gargantuan publisher had managed five weeks at number one across four different titles.
Capcom's Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, the first Resident Evil game developed outside of Japan, debuted in second place. 60 per cent of the sales were on Xbox 360, 40 per cent on PlayStation 3. When Resident Evil 5 launched three years ago, 55 per cent of sales were on Xbox 360 and 45 per cent were on PS3.
EA took the rest of the top five. Mass Effect 3 (down 55 per cent) fell one place to number three. FIFA 12 (plus eight per cent) remained steadfast in fourth. And SSX slipped two places to fifth off the back of a 31 per cent drop in sales.
Nintendo's new 3DS game Kid Icarus: Uprising entered the chart in seventh place. Bouyed by a 12 per cent increase in sales, Modern Warfare 3 is in sixth. Price promotions for Battlefield 3 (plus 31 per cent) and F1 2011 (plus 19 per cent) saw both games return to the top ten, in eighth and ninth place respectively. Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games falls four places to tenth.
The only other two new entries in the UK all formats chart were Sega's Shogun 2: Total War - Fall of the Samurai, which entered in 17th place, and Tecmo Koei's action game Ninja Gaiden 3, which managed a disappointing 19th. Namco Bandai's Armored Core 5 and Nintendo's PokePark 2 failed to chart. (DB's note: PokePark 2 did manage to make it onto the individual unit charts: at a lowly #34)

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:04 am 
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Capcom's Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, the first Resident Evil game developed outside of Japan, debuted in second place.


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Would probably have helped if anybody had decided to actually stock the strawberry floating thing.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:05 am 
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The name Resident Evil will sell anything. :lol:

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:03 pm 
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Why has anyone bought that Resident Evil game? :fp:


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My faith in the mass UK audiences is now completely gone.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:04 pm 
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Namco could have put Armoured Core V in a few shops. I went everywhere Saturday trying to find a copy and nowhere had it.

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My faith in the mass UK audiences is now completely gone.

May I ask why?

You like your niche Japanese games right? Kid Icarus seems to have done pretty well.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:16 pm 
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It got 7th. Behind Fifa, COD, SSX and the worst Resi game ever released.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:18 pm 
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Niche, relatively-unheard of game selling worse that FIFA, CoD, SSX and Resident Evil shocker.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:24 pm 
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Hime123 wrote:
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My faith in the mass UK audiences is now completely gone.

May I ask why?

You like your niche Japanese games right? Kid Icarus seems to have done pretty well.

It got outsold by Modern Warfare 3 (individual charts: 17th for the 360 version, 27th for the PS3 version). That probably means it sold less than 10k. That said, like most major Nintendo titles, I'd expect it to hang round the charts for an age, but still: Nintendo will probably chalk that up as a bomb in the UK.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:53 pm 
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Still no sign of Yakuza Dead Souls either.

I did actually see Armoured Core in the Redcar branch of Grainger Games on PS3. But I wasn't paying £40 for it.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:12 pm 
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Did Kid Icarus get any advertising as it's not exactly a household name?


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:14 pm 
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That's a good result for Kid Icarus!

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Peter Crisp wrote:
Did Kid Icarus get any advertising as it's not exactly a household name?

The TV adverts are on constantly.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:16 pm 
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The TV adverts are on constantly.


Oh, fair enough I've not watched all that much tv recently. Glad to hear a game outside the usual suspects being given some proper advertising rather than being sent out to die and then complaining when it doesn't sell.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:29 pm 
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The name Resident Evil will sell anything. :lol:

Dear God. :fp:

Seems to be the case. I actually thought the negative reviews and word of mouth would have impacted it more.

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tomvek wrote:
Zellery wrote:
The name Resident Evil will sell anything. :lol:

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Seems to be the case. I actually thought the negative reviews and word of mouth would have impacted it more.


Nah, seems Cal is going around the Uk on a open top bus telling people how all the reviews are wrong and you should buy it because he likes it. Seems to be doing the trick at the moment

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It got 7th. Behind Fifa, COD, SSX and the worst Resi game ever released.

Meanwhile in Japan, dating simulators and terribad JRPGs reign supreme. I'll take the football game over that shitheap thanks.

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It got 7th. Behind Fifa, COD, SSX and the worst Resi game ever released.

Meanwhile in Japan, dating simulators and terribad JRPGs reign supreme. I'll take the football game over that shitheap thanks.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:34 pm 
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Not directly related but how will the closure of stores/collapse of GAME affect the charts?

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