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Major Nelson mixes it up this week and provides expanded lists and data to show what the most popular games and downloads are on Xbox LIVE for the past week, and to give “a much better idea what the 23 million Xbox LIVE members are playing,” with a top twenty instead of a top ten.
That doesn’t change the fact that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is still the most played game on the service, however, ahead of Halo 3, the Bad Company 2 demo, Call of Duty: World at War and Fifa 10.
The best selling Xbox LIVE Arcade game, as a result of a Deal of the Week, is Portal: Still Alive, ahead of Trials HD and Castle Crashers, while the best selling Xbox LIVE Indie game is Avatar drop, finally dethroning I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1, with The Impossible Game following in at third.
The full global list of top played Xbox Live games, original Xbox games and top selling XBLA and Xbox LIVE Indie Games follows below, all based on unique users and full versions purchased.
It’s official: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was the best selling, biggest blockbuster of a game to release during 2009. All of those other times you were told Modern Warfare 2 was the biggest and best don’t count.
As part of an in-depth report published by GfK Chart Track on trade site MCV.co.uk, some interesting worldwide software sales figures for the top five videogames of 2009 have been revealed, with a breakdown by region (US, Japan and UK) also provided.
At number one, Modern Warfare reigns supreme with worldwide sales of 11.86 million units, while Wii Sports Resort dillydallies behind with 7.57 million units.
To find out who the other three are, and what the sales breakdown per region is, you need only casually roll your eyeballs a little further below:
I guess it’s with little surprise that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the most played game on Xbox LIVE for the past week, and we can expect this trend to continue for a while, with very little in the way of resistance, other than Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Halo: Reach, the next Call of Duty, and maybe even the Medal of Honor reboot releasing in the near to far-flung future to give Modern Warfare 2 a run for its money… but for now, that game remains the king of LIVE.
As far as the best selling Xbox LIVE Arcade titles go, Magic: The Gathering takes the top spot for the past week, followed in hot pursuit by the newly released Serious Sam HD: TFE, with Trials HD in third.
As usual (and good for them) I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 is still the best selling Xbox LIVE Indie Game, followed by Head Shot 2 and The Impossible Game.
The full global list of top played Xbox Live games, original Xbox games and top selling XBLA and Xbox LIVE Indie Games follows below, all based on unique users and full versions purchased.
Ubisoft’s Just Dance holds on to the number 1 spot on the UK’s All Formats Chart for a second week in a row, despite a 33% drop in sales and fighting off competition from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 which moves into second place (-10%) ahead of Wii Fit Plus at number 3 (-17%).
In so doing Just Dance becomes the first Ubisoft title since the original Assassin’s Creed to retain the top spot for more than a week. Last week the title broke records, claiming the highest ever sales for a game in the second week of the year. This week the only game to sell better in week 3 is World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade from 2007.
During E3 last year, Microsoft revealed how the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would be receiving timed exclusive content packs sometime in the unknown future, ensuring PS3 players would have to wait for any additional content for the game until Xbox 360 owners had their fill.
The unknown release date was subsequently narrowed down to ‘Spring’ this year in an announcement made during CES, but the exact period of exclusivity was still unknown until today. In comments made to Eurogamer, a Microsoft spokesperson said:
Nintendo’s popular Wii Play has become the best-selling game of all time in the United States. That’s according to the latest data released by tracking firm The NPD Group who came to this conclusion after compiling fifteen years worth of videogames sales in the US.
Wii Play, released back in 2006, overcome competition from both the Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto series to triumph, despite being a Wii exclusive title. As many of you will know Wii Play is a compilation of mini-games that comes bundled with a Wii Remote. Guitar Hero III came in second on the list, being available on no less than four platforms, with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (available on two platforms) finishing third.
Ubisoft’s Just Dance has done the unthinkable and ended Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s 9 week run at the top of Chart Track’s UK Software Sales Chart, snagging the No. 1 position after a sales increase of 114%.
The Writers Guild of America has announced its five nominations for the Videogame Writing Award of 2009, comprising the games Uncharted 2, Assassin’s Creed II, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Wet and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
The winner will be announced on February 20th during the 2010 Writers Guild Awards ceremony, being held simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York.
Despite an excellent set of results for December 2009, which saw a 4% year-over-year increase in revenue and the best ever results in a single month, overall US retail console game industry revenues for 2009 were down by 8%, falling to $19.66 billion from the record-setting $21.4 billion in 2008.
This was an expected decline, says Entertainment Software Association president Michael D. Gallagher, in light of a tough overall economic year:
US sales tracking firm NPD has revealed that December 2009 has become the videogame industry’s best ever month in terms of sales in the US, generating $5.53 billion in console retail game market revenues – a 4% year-over-year increase from $5.32 billion in December of 2008.
The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) has published a list of the top twenty best-selling titles in the UK for 2009, and (surprise surprise) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is right at the top of the list, followed by another ‘shocking’ entry, Fifa 10, at number two.
Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit Plus and Wii Fit fill out the rest of 2009’s top five best-selling games in the UK, but where do popular titles such as Forza 3, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Resident Evil 5 show up? Head on down below for the answers.
Gross is right.
Activision Blizzard, with chest puffed out and trumpets blowing, has announced that last year’s industry destroying Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has grossed a mind-boggling $1 billion worldwide since its release on November 10th 2009.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (sales down 41%), for an unbelievable 9th week in a row, has managed to remain at the top of Chart Track’s UK Software Sales Chart, beating newcomers Bayonetta and Darksiders, as well as old timers Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit Plus, to the No. 1 position.
Microsoft delivered their annual keynote at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2010 show, which kicked off last night in Las Vegas, and true to form some interesting Xbox 360 news was revealed.
Microsoft announced that over 39 million Xbox 360’s are now in homes around the world, while over 500 million games have been sold since the console launched, generating 20 billion dollars in sales.
A huge batch of stunning screenshots from EA’s upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has been released, showing a number of action shots and good looks at some amazing atmospheric and subtle lighting effects, sharp textures and good depth-of-field implementation, all adding up to extremely realistic looking scenes.
Bad Company 2 is also being touted as something of a Modern Warfare 2 killer, or rather, a pretender to the throne, and if it can keep these visuals up throughout the game, while offering a satisfying singleplayer component and a similarly deep level of customisation, content and skills upgrades in multiplayer, I wouldn’t argue with the claim.
Check out the rest of the excellent Battlefield: Bad Company 2 screenshots below:
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