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UK Weekly Chart, Ending 12th May 2012

Hardware:

1: X360 - 12,454 (-2%)
2: PS3 - 9,731 (-9%)
3: 3DS - 7,982 (-7%)
4: PSV - 4,072 (-10%)
5: Wii - 3,252 (-25%)
6: DS - 3,152 (-9%)
7: PSP - 2,510 (+6%)

Software:

1: Sniper Elite V2 (X360) - 18,845
2: Sniper Elite V2 (PS3) - 13,121
3: FIFA Street (X360) - 8,132
4: FIFA Street (PS3) - 6,905
5: Prototype 2 (X360) - 6,186
6: Kinect Adventures! (X360) - 5,806
7: FIFA Soccer 12 (X360) - 5,663
8: Kinect Star Wars (X360) - 5,266
9: Mass Effect 3 (X360) - 4,743
10: Prototype 2 (PS3) - 4,086

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mcstorm5159d ago

No bad number for a time where we don't really have any big names out and it looks like Kinect is still selling strong in the UK too with the number for Kinect Adventures and Kinect Star Wars

TheLyonKing5159d ago

UK is such a small population that these numbers are pointless and where I live (Scotland) its half the population of London :L

UK is not a note worthy market the bigger picture ususally is just Europe and North America and WW.

No starhawk on that list and I have not bought it yet cause I never knew it was out away to order it soon though.

TekoIie5159d ago

1: X360 - 58,208
2: PS3 - 42,300
3: 3DS - 38,499
4: Wii - 23,350
5: PSV - 18,375
6: DS - 13,645
7: PSP - 4,337

Those were the US numbers. I think that MS, Sony and Ninty deeply care about UK sales even if most are about 1/4 (or 1/5th) of the size of the US numbers which is not bad at all.

TheLyonKing5159d ago

Well I don't think they do people can disagree with me but if I was running a big corperation I would be looking at where my biggest sales come from and that would be main land europe north america. These sales are a side note to be presented with. The UK is an influential market but its not a big market decider.

You think Sony/Microsoft and Nintendo care about the UK? Guess again basically what they do is present the UK with what NA is getting really and ship it off theres no need for a thought process to it.

Like I said disagree all you want but fact will always remain fact.

TekoIie5159d ago (Edited 5159d ago )

1: 3DS - 186,867
2: PS3 - 146,882
3: 360 - 123,867
4: Wii - 78,683
5: PSP - 68,935
6: PSV - 59,323
7: DS - 39,31

Those are last weeks WW numbers ending on the 5th of May. Between 10%-50% of those sales come from the US varying which product we're talking about. Remove the UK from total WW sales and they take a sleight hit and i doupt any company would want to lose the contribution of any individual EU country.

When smeone buy's a console they buy games for that console. Some of that money will go to MS/Sony/Ninty for licencing and for every game they sell they get a small portion of the money. In the UK 9000 more PS3's definitely means more than 9000 games are going to be collectively bought by those people.

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-Foxtrot65d ago

Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.

They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

solideagle65d ago

they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted

Relientk7765d ago

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

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ActualWhiteMan71d ago (Edited 71d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg71d ago

My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.

Smellsforfree70d ago

Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.

Loktai70d ago

Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.