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UK Gaming Charts: Modern Warfare 3 takes the top spot

by Stephen Coleman on 14 November 2011, 15:09

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It's all-out war as Modern Warfare 3 takes down the opposition in this week's UK all-formats software chart. MW3 sold just under two million copies in the UK - 1.6 per cent less than Black Ops but still managed to achieve the “biggest entertainment launch ever”.

 

 

Just behind Activision's highly popular shooter is the absolutely stunning Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim followed by the destructive Battlefield 3 in places two and three.

 

The majority of sales for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim were claimed by the Xbox 360 with 59 per cent, 26 per cent on PlayStation 3 and 15 per cent on the PC, not including digital sales.

 

Fifa 12, Just Dance 3, Uncharted 3, Moshi Monsters: Moshling Zoo for the Nintendo DS, Batman: Arkham City, Zumba Fitness and Wii Party round off the top 10.

 

Here's the UK Interactive Entertainment Association's complete top 10 for the week ending November 12th, 2011:

  1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  3. Battlefield 3
  4. FIFA 12
  5. Just Dance 3
  6. Uncharted 3
  7. Moshi Monsters: Moshling Zoo
  8. Batman: Arkham City
  9. Zumba Fitness
  10. Wii Party


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Posted by shaithis - Mon 14 Nov 2011 15:12
not including digital sales

First time I've ever noticed that…

Kind of makes the PC sales figures useless.
Posted by kalniel - Mon 14 Nov 2011 15:18
shaithis
First time I've ever noticed that…

Kind of makes the PC sales figures useless.

They're a starting point. The Witcher 2 is a similar kind of game and has similar distribution methods. That sold 25% digitally to 75% retail (PC only). If the same thing happened with Skyrim then just add another 1/3rd to the retail figures to get a rough total. It's not enough to change the fact that X360 players are buy far the ones most interested in buying the game, and even the PS3 crowd, more traditionally into jRPGs than western RPGs, are more willing to buy the game. Despite the PC version being the cheapest one by far.
Posted by Noxvayl - Mon 14 Nov 2011 18:03
If other PC gamers are anything like me with respect to Bethesda produced games they'll be waiting for 2-5 patches before buying. I don't remember any Bethesda game that was fit to play on the PC at release, always some game breaking bug somewhere causing havoc. That's been my perspective of their games since Morrowind III and it's yet to be proven wrong. I think that is something worth taking into account with regards to PC sales figures, PC gamers are far more demanding.

I'll definitely buy Skyrim, but it's unlikely to be in 2011.
Posted by kalniel - Tue 15 Nov 2011 09:21
I've had the opposite experience ExHail actually - Morrowind was the first Elder Scrolls game that actually was very playable out of the box - the previous games were really buggy by comparison. I ‘finished’ both Morrowind and Oblivion relatively soon after release without problem. I think I've always been quite lucky with computer configuration however, I tend to have very few compatibility issues compared to other people/builds.