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Modern Warfare 2 Leads For Second Week, Assassin's 2 Follows In UK

Unit sales for Infinity Ward's hit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 dropped 86 percent week-on-week in the UK, but still led weekly charts, topping Ubisoft's new Assassin's Creed 2.

Kris Graft, Contributor

November 23, 2009

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Unit sales for Infinity Ward's hit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 dropped 86 percent week-on-week in the UK, but the shooter still led weekly charts, topping Ubisoft's new Assassin's Creed 2 for the week ended November 21, according to Chart-Track. It's the second week in a row since its November 10 debut that Modern Warfare 2 was able to handily secure the top spot on Chart-Track's all-platforms rankings, which lumps together all versions of a given game. The tracking firm said last week that the game sold 1.23 million units in day-one sales in the UK, grossing around £47 million ($77.85 million) on its opening day in the UK and generating opening week sales of £67.4 million ($111.8 million) in the region. Worldwide, the game earned an estimated $550 million in its first five days, according to Activision. Other high-profile titles made it into the UK all-platforms top 10 this week in the form of Ubisoft Montreal's Assassin's Creed 2, Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Electronic Arts and Valve's Left 4 Dead 2. UK All-Platforms Top 10 1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision) 2. Assassin's Creed 2 (Ubisoft) 3. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) 4. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) 5. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) 6. FIFA 10 (EA) 7. Left 4 Dead 2 (EA) 8. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Sega) 9. Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft) 10. Lego Batman: The Video Game (WBIE) UK Individual Platforms Top 10 The Xbox 360 version of Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2 managed to outsell their PS3 counterparts, as Wii software captured four spots out of the top 10. 1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision, Xbox 360) 2. Assassin's Creed 2 (Ubisoft, Xbox 360) 3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision, PS3) 4. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo, Wii) 5. Assassin's Creed 2 (Ubisoft, PS3) 6. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, Wii) 7. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo, Wii) 8. Left 4 Dead 2 (EA, Xbox 360) 9. Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft, Xbox 360) 10. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Sega, Wii)

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