UK Video Game Chart: FIFA 09 claims Xmas No.1

NewsPosted 22/12/2008 - 7:53pm GMT

EA's sixth All Formats No.1 in the last eight years.

ChartTrack reports that EA's FIFA 09 has made a late charge to claim the 2008 Christmas No.1 spot, ahead of Activision's Call of Duty: World at War and Nintendo's Mario Kart Wii.

FIFA 09's Christmas No.1 is largely thanks to a retailer promotion which saw sales of the game rocket, with an 89 per cent increase over last week. This week's No.2, CoD: World at War, could only manage a 13 per cent sales increase.

1: FIFA 09
2: CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR
3: MARIO KART WII
4: NEED FOR SPEED: UNDERCOVER
5: DR KAWASHIMA'S BRAIN TRAINING
6: WII PLAY
7: QUANTUM OF SOLACE
8: PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE CURIOUS VILLAGE
9: TOMB RAIDER: UNDERWORLD
10: WII FIT
11: GUITAR HERO: WORLD TOUR
12: MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES
13: LEGO INDIANA JONES: ORIGINAL ADVENTURES
14: FALLOUT 3
15: LITTLEBIGPLANET
16: PRINCE OF PERSIA
17: FAR CRY 2
18: CARNIVAL: FUNFAIR GAMES
19: LEGO BATMAN: THE VIDEOGAME
20: SONIC UNLEASHED

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xboxlive

NO! Gears of war 2! or NO! Mirrors edge lol
o well still now that bad of a list lol.

Posted 11:35 on 23 December 2008

Karlius

Hopefully I believe more games will be sold but obviously they will have to sell approx 3 times as many games to reduce the price to this point and maintain profit margins.

Posted 09:48 on 23 December 2008

FantasyMeister @ Karlius

I'm thinking Professor Layton and the Curious Village would have been in with a chance if it wasn't for Woolies distribution getting in trouble. It has been interesting this year to see so many games go from new to roughly £19.99/$39.99 within such a short period (days in some cases).

Maybe the industry is experimenting to see if this lower price point is a viable RRP?

Posted 09:43 on 23 December 2008

I have noticed that the ighest selling games this week are the ones that have been heavily discounted. Fifa £19.99 / Mario Kart £19.99 / Need for speed and several others. So I would say the best selling game for Christmas would be Call of Duty 5 which has recieved no discount followed by Wii Fit.

Posted 07:41 on 23 December 2008