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Mario & Sonic maintains Chart sprint

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Mario & Sonic maintains Chart sprint

Sega’s Olympic title makes it three straight weeks at the top of the ChartTrack All Formats Top 40

Despite some stiff competition from four new entries in the ChartTrack All Formats Top 10, Sega’s Wii and DS sports outing Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games maintains its grip at the top of the charts for the third week in a row.

It marks the sixth time that the Beijing-themed outing has ruled the UK charts roost.

Nintendo’s Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training continues its remarkable sales record by climbing one space to second, and it’s closely followed by two chart debutants – Ubisoft’s Lost: The Video Game and THQ’s Frontlines: Fuels of War, which claim third and fourth respectively.

Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare clinches fifth spot, just ahead of Microsoft’s RPG epic Lost Odyssey which enters the charts in sixth position.

EA’s FIFA Street 3 enters the Top 10 for the first time this week, climbing from 11th to number eight, whilst the only other new release to enter the charts, EA’s The Sims 2: Freetime, does so in tenth spot.

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Notable omissions from the Top 40 this week include two new releases – Capcom’s PS3 iteration of Lost Planet and Namco’s Xbox 360 title Beautiful Katamari.

The ChartTrack Top 10 in full:

1. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)
2. Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo)
3. Lost: The Video Game (Ubisoft)
4. Frontlines: Fuel of War (THQ)
5. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
6. Lost Odyssey (Microsoft)
7. More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
8. FIFA Street 3 (EA)
9. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Konami)
10. The Sims 2: Freetime (EA)

My poor little Katamari...

posted by _-MrT-_ Mar 04, 2008 at 10:35 am
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I can't hide my sadness at Katamari's failure to chart. Number 17 in the Xbox 360 chart I believe. Am cry...

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Re: My poor little Katamari...

posted by Hark Mar 04, 2008 at 10:51 am
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Hark

its a shame but Katamari isnt really suited for the 360 crowd....look at what happened to poor viva

Hark

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Re: My poor little Katamari...

posted by MrJolly Mar 04, 2008 at 3:45 pm
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It died on it's backside on ps2 as well in the west, along with Doshin the Giant on GC, Ico when it first came out and a few other titles that were original that people suggested the market wanted to buy but in the end didn't.

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Re: My poor little Katamari...

posted by _-MrT-_ Mar 04, 2008 at 3:55 pm
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Sad but true...

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Re: My poor little Katamari...

posted by Mar 04, 2008 at 4:12 pm
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I love these quirky titles as a gamer but consistently these products fail at retail. Its a real shame, but any publisher with a sound business strategy has more high end FPS games and brain trainers for Wii and DS and fewer quirky 'don't really know how to describe'-em-ups like this.

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good

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