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Halo 3: ODST Leads UK Sales Chart
Bungie’s latest debuts in highest position while The Beatles: Rock Band drops out of top ten in week ending September 26.
It may not have thundered with a launch programme as loud as that granted to its older brother, but it hasn’t stopped Halo 3: ODST’s week one sales being the 12th highest sell-through ever for a single format title in the UK, according to GfK Chart-Track. Day one sales accounted for 65 per cent of the week’s total.
The week’s other new entries, Professor Layton And Pandora's Box at two and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 at seven, join a chart otherwise dominated by the season’s strongest selling titles: Guitar Hero 5, which has dropped two places from last week to four; Batman: Arkham Asylum, down two to six; and Wii Sports Resort, which holds at five.
NCSoft’s PC MMOG Aion, meanwhile, debuts just outside the top 10 at eleven, while The Beatles: Rock Band drops to 13.
Need For Speed: Shift maintains a strong position, down from top last week to three, while Bethesda’s Wet, supported by a TV advertising campaign, hangs on in there at nine, down from six, and Colin McRae: Dirt 2 drifts from three to eight.
Nothing, however, can quite tip Wii Fit out, which sits at 10.
01 Halo 3: ODST (Microsoft)
02 Professor Layton And Pandora's Box (Nintendo)
03 Need For Speed: Shift (EA)
04 Guitar Hero 5 (Activision)
05 Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
06 Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)
07 Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (Activision)
08 Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (Codemasters)
09 Wet (Bethesda)
10 Wii Fit (Nintendo)
Source
UK 2009 chart history
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Halo is a pernicious dolt, isn't it. I think most fans would have their minds blown by a mere typical PC shooter.
and before people accuse me of fanboyism, I own a 360 and do not plan to buy a PS3. But Goldeneye is still the best console FPS yet made, and Half-Life the overall best.
But Goldeneye is still the best console FPS yet made
Have you played it lately? It was good at the time...
No doubt. Delusional PC fanboy is delusional.
Goldeneye was bested by Halo: Combat Evolved 8 years ago, someone didn't get the memo.
I'm not even an Xbox fan and know that from playing those titles.
Aside from the framerate which feels worse these days, it's held up quite well.
'Pernicious dolt' OUCH!
There's nothing else to play on the 360 so what else would the xbots buy?
Yes, only seven of the ten are available for 360, what a poor show for 360 owners. Really Toad it's people like you that make me ashamed to own a PS3, what is it with the Playstation brand that it attracts this type of blinkered nay-saying fanaticism.
Yeah I wonder that too. I think it people who still think the more powerful console is the "best" console, no arguments, and then put their fingers in their ears. There is no "best" console. Its ALL about the games. Not just WHAT games are available. Games are developed in different ways, they take advantage of the hardware available better or worse than others.
Ironically, even though the PS3 is the more powerful console, Eurogamer have faced-off way over 100 games available on both Xbox 360 and PS3, and the Xbox 360 versions of cross-platform games consistantly comes out on top, not just in terms of graphics (resolution, lighting and texture resolution) but also in terms of performance (which does affect playability).
As someone who doesn't own a PS3, I'm not sure what would cause such fanaticism.
As someone who does, I don't either ; )
Yeah i forgot Beatles Rockband wasnt out on 360.....................
WAIT A MINUTE!
I didn't think anyone who was anyone was still playing games like Rock band and Guitar Hero.
Hang on, doesn't everybody have a PS3 Slim now, and also hate ODST because it's too short and apparently has out-dated graphics?
Oh wait, the sales figures (which cover the whole games market, not just a specific console) say different. There's certainly way too much hot air put around comments threads at the moment.
As edshot said, that's the main reason I still refuse to get a PS3 and feel crippled when it comes to the amount of quality titles available. GOW3 and The Last Guardian may change this in the future however, hopefully :)
I paid over the odds for a N64 and then the Dreamcast so I refuse to be taught the same lesson a third time. Sorry Sony, get it sorted.
Where's the PS3 exclusives when you need 'em? With 4 out of the 10 top-ten titles either Nintendo or MS exclusives and Sony's big guns not coming out till 2010, they're gonna have to do better than this if they want to shift some kit this xmas! Uncharted 2 can't do it single-handed.
Come on Sony, for Pete's sake get it together, we're in October already! just about.
What about Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 and Demon's Souls which are both coming out in the same month as Uncharted 2?
Its a bit disingenuous to lump the MS and Nintendo exclusives together as the only MS exclusive on that list is Halo and you could slap Halo on a dog turd and it'd still sell stupid amounts.
That's fair comment and very true. Nonetheless, in Halo, MS has a very lucrative and iconic franchise. What the hell does PS have that comes close, not in terms of quality, but in branding.
Anyone been on tombraider.com lately? Because MS gave Crystal Dynamics a back-hander for some exclusive dlc, MS have all but totally carried off PS's baby from under their noses. Whereas PS3 owners get nothing! Though I did read that no less than 51% of TR:U sales were for PS3, whereas only 34% were for 360.
It could just be that 360 owners would rather have a Gears or a Halo than a TR, I'm not a 360 owner, so I dunno. But if TR feels more comfortable on PS3 for so many people, then why aren't Sony nurturing what product they do have.
I was really commenting on Sony's totally sloth-like performance at the moment and the fact that, not only do they need to get some decent exclusives out there now, but they need to develop some IP that PS3 owners can identify as their own and truly regard as iconic.
w.r.t. tomb raider, "MS have all but totally carried off PS's baby from under their noses", but they have done so about two generations after anybody really cared about it.
I agree that Sony lack a suitably massive "mascot game" though. While Kratos and Sackboy (and potentially Nathan Drake soon?) are probably Sony's most iconic characters, I still think Gran Turismo is the closest they have to a really big, iconic game series (IMHO, they should have done absolutely anything they plausably could do to hold on to Final Fantasy).
Still, if TR shows us anything, it's that without exploring shiney new design space, even the most massive franchises can die, so I wonder how Halo will fare in the next generation or two. Do a Mario, or a Lara?
If you were after an iconic PS3 character i would go for Sackboy. Unfortunately like you say Halo as a brand could sell anything, LBP while great doesn't share that feature
I think a stronger argument could be made for Kratos than for Sackboy.
Surely Kratos!!! Duh duh da daaa!!! Da DUH DA DA!!!!! :-) God of War and God of War II sold like mutherfuckers.
Soz forgot about Kratos rather shamefully.