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Discount Titles Dominate UK New Year Charts

With no major new game releases so far this year, the UK sales charts continue to be dominated by discounted titles in January sales, but with Electronic Arts' soccer title FIFA 07 still firmly ensconced in the number one spot, closely followed by

David Jenkins, Blogger

January 9, 2007

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With no major new releases so far this year the UK sales charts continue to be dominated by discounted titles in January sales, with soccer title FIFA 07 still firmly ensconced in the number one spot. The only new entries in the top ten are returning favorites Lego Star Wars II and New Super Mario Bros., while Canis Canem Edit (aka Bully) continues to sell well at its new unofficial budget price. Other returning titles in the top forty include Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team at number thirty-eight, Guitar Hero II at number thirty-nine and the original version of The Sims at number forty. Stock of Wii hardware and software is still extremely limited across the UK, with The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess the only quasi-exclusive in the top forty at number thirty-six, with the GameCube version accounting for 12 percent of unit sales.

TW

LW

Title

Publisher

Formats

Weeks

1

1

FIFA 07

EA

PS2/Xb/GC/360/PC/GBA/DS/PSP

15

2

3

Need for Speed Carbon

EA

All Formats

10

3

4

The Sims 2 Pets

EA

PS2/GC/PC/GBA/DS/PSP

12

4

2

Pro Evolution Soccer 6

Konami

PS2/360/PC

11

5

8

Canis Canem Edit

Rockstar

PS2

11

6

5

Call of Duty 3

Activision

PS2/Xb/360/Wii

9

7

10

Cars

Activision

All Formats

26

8

14

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

Activision

PS2/Xb/GC/360/PC/GBA/DS/PSP

18

9

15

New Super Mario Bros.

Nintendo

DS

28

10

7

Gears of War

Microsoft

360

8

Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2007. ELSPA Ltd

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About the Author

David Jenkins

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David Jenkins ([email protected]) is a freelance writer and journalist working in the UK. As well as being a regular news contributor to Gamasutra.com, he also writes for newsstand magazines Cube, Games TM and Edge, in addition to working for companies including BBC Worldwide, Disney, Amazon and Telewest.

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