Official UK Video Game Charts: Star Wars and the Apocalypse

Activision scores a blinder

22 Sept 2008

Activision's Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has stormed the Charts like... a Sith Lord storming some charts.

It's Number 1. In fact, it's Number 1 on every format under the sun except the Wii (Number 3) and the DS (aaallll the way down at Number 39). 48% of the sales were on the 360, while the PS3 got 30%. That makes it the 10th best-selling game ever on each format.

Nintendo follows that up, with renewed stock pushing Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii up three places to Numbers 2 and 3 respectively.

EA suffers a bit, with Mercenaries 2 dropping 65% of its sales to fall to Number 6. It's the only publisher other than Activision to get fresh titles into the Top 40, however, with Warhammer Online breaking in at Number 4 and Crysis: Warhead landing at Number 21.

Also, the Apocalypse started in earnest today, with SEGA's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games dropping out of the Top 10 to Number 13.
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Activision Blizzard does well out of Guitar Hero III, with the game rocking up at Number 12, an impressive 15 place climb on last week. It doesn't do quite so well out of On Tour, however, with the handheld game dropping waaaayyyy down from Number 8 to Number 23.

Next week, watch out for Wario Land: The Shake Dimension, Pure and Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway.

You can see the Top 10 in full below

(N/E) 1 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - LucasArts
(5) 2 Wii Fit - Nintendo
(6) 3 Mario Kart Wii - Nintendo
(N/E) 4 Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning - Electronic Arts
(2) 5 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 - Electronic Arts
(1) 6 Mercenaries 2: World In Flames - Electronic Arts
(10) 7 Wii Play - Nintendo
(7) 8 Carnival: Funfair Games - Take 2
(9) 9 Tna Impact! - Midway
(3) 10 Spore - Electronic Arts


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8 comments posted.

First comment

Posted by haritori
cant wait for the next wii

"Yeah we made the graphics like the Snes, production costs us about 8p per unit and we are selling it for £200.00 with the wii suit, where even pissing can be replicated 1:1 on screen!"

Miyamota "Yeah i got up and thought wouldnt that make a great game, so i am now creating Wii Wake Up, then had breakfast and thought wouldnt that make a great game, so im making Wii Toast (Jam and Marmalade sold seperate) then i went to work and and thought........" does he even try anymore?, what happened to the creator of New and Innovative games!, sure the wii was inovation but now the guy just makes what ever he see`s or does, seriously if he was always like that then the guy had a trippy teenage life.

really i cant belive people are still buying into Nintendos shit, its really overboard now, even capcoms great games were ignored, but fecking Wii Music will top everything, and all you do is move the Wii Mote while pressing any Button!!!! seriously that s just a piss take, its like he just cant be arsed making GAMES anymore.

At least we know EA`s evil! and there games actually do have some gameplay.

But look how its always Ninty in the top 10!!

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Posted by Daz
hopefully it's the drain on your resources because I'm 24 and I don't let that stop me from spending hour reliving the days when original IP's where indeed original and not trying to copy other games

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