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UK Charts Dominated By World Of WarCraft

This week's UK sales chart sees World of WarCraft expansion The Burning Crusade topping the all-formats chart, accounting for 30 percent of all PC titles sold throughout the week, and narrowly missing the record for fastest-selling PC title

David Jenkins, Blogger

January 23, 2007

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Although there was only one major new release in the UK last week, the first expansion for the hugely popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of WarCraft has dominated the charts. Despite being released on a Tuesday instead of the more traditional Friday, it narrowly missed out (by under one thousand units) on beating the record for the fastest ever selling PC title in the UK, currently held by Eidos’ Championship Manager 04. The Burning Crusade’s success has still been remarkable, though, accounting for 30 percent of all PC titles sold during the week – although this is again lower than Championship Manager 04’s record of 40 percent in April 2003. The expansion outsold the original World of WarCraft’s launch week by a factor of almost 4 to 1, a unique feat for any expansion. Other movement in the chart has been limited, with Lost Planet and WarioWare moving down only one space – although Capcom’s Xbox 360 title outsold its rival by more than 2 to 1. As the current snooker championships continue on UK television, Sega’s official tie-in saw sales rise by 44 percent, to launch it into the top ten at number six. As well as the original version of World of WarCraft re-entering at number twenty-eight, the top forty also contains a number of PC “super budget” titles, which have become a regular feature of the post-Christmas chart in the UK. eGames’ Galaxy of Games Red debuted as high as number twenty-four, with arcade conversion Sega Rally from GSP at number twenty-seven and Puppy Luv at number thirty-one.

TW

LW

Title

Publisher

Formats

Weeks

1

NE

World of WarCraft: The Burning Crusade

Vivendi

PC

1

2

1

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

Capcom

360

2

3

2

WarioWare: Smooth Moves

Nintendo

Wii

2

4

3

FIFA 07

EA

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

17

5

4

Pro Evolution Soccer 6

Konami

PS2/360/PC/PSP

13

6

17

World Snooker Championship 2007

Sega

PS2/360/PSP

2

7

5

Need for Speed Carbon

EA

All Formats

12

8

10

Call of Duty 3

Activision

PS2/Xb/360/Wii

11

9

7

The Sims 2 Pets

EA

PS2/GC/PC/GBA/DS/PSP

14

10

6

Canis Canem Edit

Rockstar

PS2

13

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

About the Author

David Jenkins

Blogger

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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