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Gran Turismo 5 Overtakes Black Ops To Lead UK Charts

Polyphony Digital's long-delayed Gran Turismo 5 has debuted in pole position in the all-formats UK chart, overtaking Call of Duty: Black Ops for highest number of sales in the week ending November 27.

Simon Parkin, Contributor

November 29, 2010

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Polyphony Digital's long-delayed Gran Turismo 5 has debuted in pole position in the all-formats UK chart, overtaking Call of Duty: Black Ops for highest number of sales in the week ending November 27. Kazunori Yamauchi's driving simulator joins Heavy Rain and God of War III as the third Sony-exclusive title to sit at number one on the UK sales chart in 2010. Ubisoft Montreal's Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood maintains its strong position in third place in the chart, while Criterion Games' critically-acclaimed Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit drops three places from last week to number 6. Junction Point’s Disney platformer, Epic Mickey, failed to chart in the top 40 all-formats chart, entering the Wii charts at number 11. Titles falling from the top 10 this week include Professor Layton and the Lost Future , Kinect Sports, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii, displaced by Nintendo Art Academy and Fallout: New Vegas. Below are Chart-Track's all-platforms sales charts, which include unit sales of all versions of a given title. UK All-Platforms Top 10 1. Gran Turismo 5 (Polyphony Digital, Sony Computer Entertainment) 2. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch, Activision) 3. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft) 4. FIFA 11 (EA Sports, EA) 5. Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft, Ubisoft) 6. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (Criterion Games, EA) 7. Wii Party (Nintendo, Nintendo) 8. Art Academy (Nintendo, Nintendo) 9. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, Nintendo) 10. Fallout: New Vegas (Obsidian Entertainment, Bethesda) UK Individual Platforms Top 10 1. Gran Turismo 5 (Sony, PS3) 2. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft, Xbox 360) 3. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision, Xbox 360) 4. Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft, Wii) 5. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision, PS3) 6. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft, PS3) 7. Wii Party (Nintendo, Wii) 8. FIFA 11 (EA, Xbox 360) 9. FIFA 11 (EA, PS3) 10. Art Academy (Nintendo, Wii)

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Simon Parkin

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Simon Parkin is a freelance writer and journalist from England. He primarily writes about video games, the people who make them and the weird stories that happen in and around them for a variety of specialist and mainstream outlets including The Guardian and the New Yorker.

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