UK Sales Chart, Week Ending January 28th

With a sudden improvement in hardware stock, the Xbox 360 has enjoyed its most successful week in the UK top forty since the console’s launch. New title Dead or Alive 4 has entered straight in at number one – an impressive feat for console with such a small user base, even during an otherwise quiet retail period. With Torino 2006 Winter Olympics the only other new entry at number thirty-eight, virtually all the other significant movement in the chart his week is related to the Xbox 360. Call of Duty 2 has risen further up the top ten, with the Xbox 360 version accounting for 78 percent of all sales of the game. Project Gotham Racing 3 has risen seven places to number nine, with Perfect Dark Zero up thirteen places to number fourteen. Monolith’s first person adventure Condemned, meanwhile, has re-entered the top forty at number eighteen. The release of Dead or Alive 4 and the new availability of hardware has in essence worked as a mini-relaunch for the format in the UK, although the Xbox 360’s real test will come amongst more concerted competition in the coming months.

Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2006 ELSPA (UK) Ltd