Call Of Duty: Black Ops
remains at number one in the UK Top Sellers Buzz chart with a total of 39,633 mentions (down from last week’s 54,289). Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood also stays unmoved, with 11,179 mentions, but Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit’s 9301 comments don’t prove enough to stay ahead of Gran Turismo’s 10,683 debut.Fallout: New Vegas, meanwhile, rounds out the top five with 7410. Art Academy manages to sneak in at number ten with 271 mentions.
In the positive buzz chart, Black Ops storms back to the top with 44 per cent of its total commentary proving positive. FIFA 11 matches this figure and comes in at second while third fourth and fifth positions go to Brotherhood, Just Dance 2 and Wii Party, all of which netted 40 per cent.
But Black Ops also attracted the highest percentage of negative commentary, with 11 per cent. Just Dance 2 (last weeks most negatively discussed game) drops to second place with its ten per cent. Wii Sports Resort, which last week attracted no gloomy discussion at all, has upset one per cent of its user base this week but remained the least negatively discussed title regardless.
Most Popular Games
In our monthly look at the most talked about upcoming and released games, Halo: Reach has dropped from the top spot to fourth place with 16,425 mentions. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 remains in second with 24,070 while Black Ops ascends the chart to take first place with 39,633. Gran Turismo 5’s 10,683 mentions earn it eighth position, while Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit comes in last with 9301.
Halo: Reach has lost no ground when it comes to positivity, however, and remains at the top with 48 per cent. Gran Turismo 5 manages sixth with 39 per cent (a percentage it shares with Angry Birds, which arrived in seventh place). Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit comes in last again with 34 per cent, while World Of Warcraft stays in ninth despite next week’s Cataclysm launch.
Worse still, World Of Warcraft tops the negative commentary chart for the second month in a row, causing 16 per cent of those discussing it to take issue. Final Fantasy XIV, meanwhile, attracts the least negativity with just six per cent.
Source: Brandwatch
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