UK Medal of Honor sales top 350,000 units

Also approximate life to date UK figures for FIFA 11 and Just Dance 2.

Story updated to include analysis: 17:00 GMT, November 1 2010:

It's usually not possible to reveal life-to-date sales data for UK video game releases, but a slip up by UKIE, the trade body for the UK's wider interactive entertainment industry, and percentage sales changes of games (data published by GfK Chart Track) has allowed VideoGamer.com to extrapolate approximate weekly and life-to-date figures for Medal of Honor, FIFA 11 and Just Dance 2.

First to FIFA 11 which has shifted a massive 1.28 million copies in five weeks.

Week 1: 759,194
Week 2: 280,902
Week 3: 98,316
Week 4: 68,821
Week 5: 75,703

Our week one figure differs from EA's published 821,000 figure from early October.

Next up is EA's Medal of Honor. Our calculations put its current life-to-date UK sales at 351,220 copies.

Week 1: 199,059
Week 2: 103,511
Week 3: 48,650

And finally it's the turn of Just Dance 2 which has been slowly building momentum week-on-week, to accumulate life-to-date sales of 156,778.

Week 1: 41,173
Week 2: 57,230
Week 3: 58,375

VideoGamer.com Analysis

It's worth bearing in mind that Chart Track data is collected each week from 7,000 retail outlets representing 90 per cent of the UK software market. The 10 per cent of retail which isn't represented could account for the discrepancy between our reverse engineered figures and those released by publishers.

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Woffls

Pretty incredible to see a game with sales getting higher each week. I suppose it's mums taking 2 weeks to realise it's on the shelf in Sainsburys. It's not as if they have pre-orders down.

Posted 16:54 on 01 November 2010

PATRON

Neon-Soldier32

Looks like Medal of Honor won't be getting a sequal.

Posted 15:42 on 01 November 2010

cousinwalter @ IndoorHeroes

It would be interesting to see if it was across the board on these so called causal games rather than just a 1 off with just dance 2, because it could point to the buying trends of causal gamers opposed to the more serious among us

Posted 15:36 on 01 November 2010

IndoorHeroes

Its quite an astonishing phenomena that Just Dance game sales increase as time goes on while most other games decrease.

I expect it's the old word of mouth marketing taking place where as most gamers are already aware of what games they plan to buy before they're even out. Still, interesting to see it backed up with numbers.

Posted 15:29 on 01 November 2010