UK Video Game Chart: Fight Night stands tough

ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack reports that EA’s Fight Night Round 4 has held on for a second week at the top of the All Formats All Prices UK video game chart, despite a 35 per cent drop-off in sales.

EA also claims the No.2 position with new release Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 – the second of five EA Sports titles inside the Top 20: Grand Slam Tennis at No.11, EA Sports Active at No.14 and FIFA 09 at No.17.

Activision’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is up 30 per cent and climbs three places to No.3, while Wii Fit and UFC 2009 are both non-movers at No.4 and No.5 respectively. The week’s second highest new entry comes from Ubisoft’s Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood at No.6, while EA’s Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince is at No.10 – expect this to rise considerably once the movie opens in cinemas.

After what’s been a fairly busy few weeks for new releases, the coming Friday seems quiet by comparison, with only SEGA’s The Conduit likely to make any real impact in the chart. The game’s managed to build a lot of pre-release hype, but how high will it chart?

Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2001 ELSPA Ltd Entertainment Software (All Prices) Week 27, 2009

1: FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4

2: TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 10

3: TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

4: WII FIT

5: UFC 2009: UNDISPUTED

6: CALL OF JUAREZ: BOUND IN BLOOD

7: THE SIMS 3

8: [PROTOTYPE]

9: VIRTUA TENNIS 2009

10: HARRY POTTER & THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE

11: GRAND SLAM TENNIS

12: CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE

13: CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR

14: EA SPORTS ACTIVE

15: PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE CURIOUS VILLAGE

16: MARIO KART WII

17: FIFA 09

18: OVERLORD II

19: GHOSTBUSTERS: THE VIDEO GAME

20: POKEMON PLATINUM