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UK sales tracking firm UKIE has revealed the top-selling games of 2011 in the UK, and unsurprisingly, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is slap-bang at the top of the all formats sales listing, followed by FIFA 12 and Battlefield 3.
Familiar ‘faces’ in the fitness and dance genres are included in the top ten, as well as open-world offerings in the fantasy, comic book, sci-fi and contemporary categories.
Lists of top-selling games across individual platforms have also been released - find out what were the hottest games of 2011 in the UK below:
Despite a whopping 46% drop in sales compared to the week previous, Deus Ex: Human Revolution has once again claimed the top spot on Chart Track’s UK Software Sales listing, ahead of the newly released Driver: San Francisco.
Ubisoft’s Driver, however, had enough success to land it in No. 2 on the chart - as 53% of the game’s sales were seen on Xbox 360, while 46% were recorded on PS3 - effectively pushing the previous sales monster Zumba Fitness down by one place to No. 3, as that title’s sales dropped by 19% from the previous week.
Sales of Rugby World Cup also fell, this time by 30%, forcing the game down to No. 4 from No. 3, while LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean (sales down 16%) stepped down one place to No. 5.
The undisputed ‘UK Software Chart Champion,’ Zumba Fitness, has finally had its position on Chart Track’s sales listing put into dispute with the release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, as the latest first-person action game from Square Enix and Eidos Montreal has managed to climb to the top of the chart during its first week on sale.
Interestingly, Chart Track notes that in only two days worth of sales, Deus Ex: Human Revolution was only 26 000 units short of outdoing the lifetime sales of the latest series entry, Deus Ex: Invisible War. Massive!
Who will deliver us from the software sales chart dominance of Zumba Fitness in the UK? What game is tough enough to compete? Will the combined might of Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Rugby World Cup 2011 on August 26th be enough to outsell this supposed juggernaut?
One thing’s for sure: We need to act fast. The longer Zumba Fitness remains at the top, the more fit it becomes! Before long, other games won’t be able to keep up!
Zumba Fitness is seemingly unstoppable and has so far remained at the top of Chart Track’s UK Software Sales listing for seven weeks in a row, racking up a total of ten weeks at No. 1 since its release earlier this year!
Zumba Fitness continued to enjoy the current lull in videogame releases this past week as the fitness title once again topped Chart Track’s UK Software Sales listing ahead of new releases Call of Juarez: The Cartel and Cars 2.
It’s always fun to see a new and unknown game hit the top of Chart Track’s UK Software Sales Chart and stay at No. 1 for a few weeks, to the frustration and chagrin of other, better established franchises like Call of Duty, FIFA and Battlefield.
When that title begins to outstay its welcome, however, those better established franchises tend to get a little… exacerbated, and now that Zumba Fitness has remained at No. 1 for five weeks in a row, and has managed to top the chart for a total of eight weeks this year, Activision, EA and other publishers must be pulling their hair out.
This is an incredible run for 505 Games/Majesco Entertainment’s fitness game, Zumba Fitness, as the title has once again topped Chart Track’s UK Software Sales listing for the fourth week in a row.
This means that Zumba Fitness has sat at No. 1 on the chart for a total of seven weeks since earlier this year, and during a week of little resistance in terms of new games, the title is certainly capitalising on the opportunity to rack up sales.
DiRT 3 (sales up 28%) is the first game to offer a fight to the new chart king, moving from No. 7 to No. 2 during a week of price promotions in the UK. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (sales up 10%) is also a worthy adversary thanks to the release of the film of the same name, shifting up three places to No. 3 this week.
We’ve been predicting it for a while now following the game’s dominant showing earlier this year, but now that there’s little to no resistance from brand new triple-A games, Zumba Fitness is free to reign over Chart Track’s UK Software Sales listing.
For the third week in a row (and the sixth week, total), the little fitness game that could has once again topped the UK sales chart, ahead of heavy hitters like LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean and LA Noire.
There’s no stopping Zumba Fitness!
The game has once again claimed the No. 1 spot on Chart Track’s UK Software Sales listing this week, with a massive 33% increase in sales over the week previous.
Interestingly, Chart Track says that this past week represents the second highest sales week for Zumba Fitness, and outsold games appearing in the next three positions combined. Chart Track goes on to explain that the game’s best sales week earlier this year only allowed it to reach No. 2 on the chart, after Crysis 2.
What are those next three games that Zumba Fitness managed to outstrip in terms of unit sales this week?
No new game release managed to claim the top spot on Chart Track’s UK Software Sales listing this past week because they were all thwarted by the latest chart hero, Zumba Fitness.
Stepping up from No. 3 the week previous to No. 1 this week, Zumba Fitness has been showing signs of domination for a while now following its reign at the top weeks ago, and not only is the title sitting in the throne, but it beat The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D to do it.
To (temporarily) stem the tyrannical rise and rise of Zumba Fitness, Brink and LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean were unleashed on UK gamers late last week, and according to Chart Track, these debut titles were able to appear at No. 1 and No. 2 on the region’s sales chart respectively for the week ending May 14th.
It’s managed to claim the top spot on Chart Track’s UK Software Sales listing twice before, and now Zumba Fitness (sales down 3%)has been able to hit the top of the chart for a third time, ousting Portal 2 (sales down 43%) from the No. 1 position.
Zumba Fitness moved up from No. 3 last week to appear at No. 1, while Portal 2 had to step down one place to make space for the new chart-topper. Mortal Kombat (sales down 52%) also moved down one place, charting at No. 3 this week.
It’s another chart-topping performance for Zumba Fitness from 505 Games, placing itself at No. 1 for the second week in a row against heavy-hitting opposition.
Sales for Zumba Fitness are only down by 8 percent overall this week, which is good enough for the top spot, and even though the Wii version of the game dropped by 10 percent in sales, this version accounted for 90 percent of units sold, with the older Xbox 360 iteration (sales up 14%) snapping up the rest.
Well isn’t this a surprise?
After rocketing into the coveted Top Ten list of best selling games in the UK last week, Chart Track is reporting that Zumba Fitness (sales down 49%) is this week’s number one top seller in the region, surpassing two-time chart topper Crysis 2 to get there.
Chart Track tells us that this is the first time a title from 505 Games has hit No. 1, and is the first fitness game since Wii Fit Plus in late 2009 to achieve the feat.
As a result, Crysis 2 (sales down 57%) has to move to unfamiliar ground and occupies No. 2 on the listing.
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