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UK games retailers made 8.4m from software sales last week, the lowest since records began. The market has been teetering at this level for a few weeks now as new releases dry up. 394,688 games were sold in total for the week, with Sega’s official Olympics game the No.1 seller. …
Read More »UK CHARTS: FIFA Street breaks series records
FIFA Street is this week’s retail No.1, beating the week one sales of all of its predecessors. EA holds the entire Top Four this week, and has posted three new No.1s on the trot – SSX, Mass Effect 3 and FIFA Street. The first time it has achieved that since …
Read More »UKIE sells stake in Chart-Track
UK trade body UKIE has sold its stake in charts body GfK Chart-Track – but still has a deal for exclusive access to its data. The organisation’s 20 per cent has been sold to GfK, which already had the majority ownership of Chart-Track since 2008. UKIE this afternoon told MCV …
Read More »The REAL entertainment Top 40
You know that Entertainment Top 40 released last week and published online by the games press (including MCV)? Well it was wrong. MCV can reveal that the video game numbers were based on the raw Chart-Track data and were not up-weighted to account for the whole market. That means Black …
Read More »UK CHARTS: FIFA still No.1
FIFA 12 is the UK No.1 for the fourth consecutive week. It was a tough week for games retail with sales down week-over-week, and there was a distinct lack of new titles on shelves. FIFA is followed closely by Ubisoft’s Just Dance 3, which is up two places. Elder Scrolls …
Read More »UK CHARTS: FIFA 12 still top
Electronic Arts maintains its grip on the top of the charts with FIFA 12 at No.1 and Battlefield 3 at No.2. Both titles saw a 63 per cent drop in sales, but Battlefield 3 manages to climb one place. Last week’s No.2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, slips to …
Read More »Software Sales Monitor: UK market climbs to £62.2m
The UK games marketgenerated 62.2m last week,up 13.9 per cent over theseven days prior. Unit salesalso rose 19.6 per cent from1.9m to 2.2m in the firstweek of December. Activision’s Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 3 beatdown the competition againlast week, topping the chartsahead of FIFA 12 andAssassin’s Creed:Revelations. The CoD gamealso …
Read More »UK Software Sales Monitor: Market falls to £9.03m
As if last year’s ten-year low wasn’t bad enough, this week the market value fell even further. After a six per cent week-on-week decline, the figure now stands at a worrying 9.03m as of the week ending August 20th. Similarly, unit sales were down – also by six per cent …
Read More »July shocker for UK retail
UK boxed game sales have just suffered their worst month this year. July’s GfK Chart-Track data shows the full extent of the market decline. Games retailers generated 44.76m last month, a drop of 26.4 per cent compared to the same period the year before. In terms of unit sales, 2,327,966 …
Read More »Zumba fends off new entries in UK charts
505 Games’s Zumba Fitness holds onto the top spot of the UK GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40, despite the arrival of several new entries this week. This is the sixth consecutive week at No.1 for the dance workout game, making for a total of nine weeks at No.1 since …
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