Kotaku: sales charts

PC Sales Charts: Oh, Hello 2010

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:30:00 MST

After a Christmas break, we're back this week with some PC sales charts, outlining some of the big sellers (or at least big revenue earners) of the new year period.

Since both Steam and Direct2Drive had big sales on over the holiday season, these charts are all screwy. But screwy in a good way! Great seeing games like Borderlands, Mass Effect and Torchlight stick it to the bigger December titles.

PC Digital Download Charts For The Week Ending January 3

Steam

1. Left 4 Dead 2
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
3. Crysis: Maximum Edition
4. Borderlands
5. Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition
6. Mass Effect
7. Torchlight
8. The Orange Box
9. Left 4 Dead
10. Killing Floor

Direct2Drive

1. Star Trek Online Digital Deluxe Edition (pre-sale)
2. Dragon Age: Origins (Mac)
3. Torchlight
4. Aion
5. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition
6. The Sims 3
7. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition (Mac)
8. Mass Effect 2 Digital Deluxe Edition
9. Star Trek Online
10. Red Alert 3 Bundle

[via Shacknews]

British Sales Charts: Just Dance!

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:30:00 MST

Finally, a little variety in Britain's sales charts, as the PS3 version of Modern Warfare 2 and FIFA 10 make way for...oh. Just Dance, for the Wii. Way to go, Ubisoft. Way to go, Britain.

Those who may not have heard of Just Dance, please see this for reference.

The rest of the charts is the usual post-Christmas mix of steady Wii titles and discounted blockbusters, but regardless of which of those categories Borderlands fits into, it's nice seeing it back in the top 40.

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Luke Plunkett — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:30:00 MST

Is there an echo in here? I only ask because last week's British sales charts look an awful lot like this week's British sales charts.

And it's not just the first couple of games, either. The top 10 from December 26 is exactly the same as the top 10 from December 19, with only the order of a few titles swapping around to keep things interesting.

British Sales Charts: A Whiite Christmas

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:00:00 MST

In the penultimate holiday season charts, there was only going to be one system dominating the top 40. And it's not the Xbox 360. Not the PS3, either.

No, it's the Wii, which looks set to enjoy its fourth successive Christmas atop the British charts. Fourth. I mean, come on. Mario Kart in the top 10? Another year or two of this and the game will be older than the people it's being bought for.

British Sales Charts: Pro Evo, MIA

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:00:00 MST

Not going to talk about the top titles this week. Instead, I'm going to talk about a series that isn't even in the charts, a series that even 2-3 years ago would have been challenging for top Christmas honours.

I'm talking about Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 2010. There once was a time that Britain's best-selling Christmas games were as predictable as clockwork; there'd be a Call of Duty game, there'd be a Need For Speed game, and there'd be Pro Evolution Soccer.

There's no more telling indication of the slipping quality of Konami's series than a look at the British charts only a few weeks out from Christmas. While FIFA 10 - a game released in September - is still doing well, Pro Evo has failed to even make the top 40.

British Sales Charts: Wii Stages A Fightback

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:30:00 MST

Britain looks set to party like it's 2008 this Christmas, with the weekly sales charts headed by Wii games after what seems like an eternity of 360/PS3 domination.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii is at #1, followed by Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit Plus, as Britons gear up for the Christmas season stocking up on gifts for people who already own Wii Sports and Wii Fit and need something new.

British Sales Charts: The Mustachioed Interloper

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:30:00 MST

You laughed when Reggie bet the farm that New Super Mario Bros. Wii would outsell Modern Warfare 2. We laughed too. But last weeks British sales charts show he may be onto something.

Because Modern Warfare 2 has already been toppled from its perch, after only two weeks on sale. And it's been toppled by Nintendo's multiplayer platformer, incessant TV ads and family appeal winning out over MW2's formula of guns, multiplayer and rubbish story.

British Sales Charts: Little Italy

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:30:00 MST

Big surprise this week, as Modern Warfare 2's cross-platform domination is abruptly ended after only seven days, with the PS3 version nudged aside by a stealthy, Italian newcomer.

Assassin's Creed II has dropped from the rafters and, with a flick of the wrists, shanked MW2 in the guts, the 360 version of Ubisoft's big franchise coming in at #2, with the PS3 iteration not far behind at #5.

PC Sales Charts: Go, Torchlight, Go!

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:30:00 MST

Well, whaddya know. Modern Warfare 2 came out last week, and finished last week as the #1 game on Steam. On Direct2Drive, however, it didn't fare as well.

Probably because IGN's online storefront wasn't selling the game.

In its place, then, came Dragon Age, which continues to sell at a pace I honestly wouldn't have predicted coming into this holiday season. Which isn't a bad thing! No, I'm pleasantly surprised.

PC Digital Download Charts For The Week Ending November 14

Steam

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2. Dragon Age: Origins
3. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
4. Borderlands
5. Overload Complete Pack
6. Torchlight
7. Crysis / Crysis Warhead Bundle
8. Football Manager 2010
9. Mass Effect
10. Counter-Strike: Source

Direct2Drive

1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
3. Borderlands
4. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition (with strategy guide)
5. Torchlight
6. Best of Indie Bundle Vol. 2
7. Tropico 3
8. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
10. Fallen Earth

[via Shacknews]

British Sales Charts: A Warfare Most Modern

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:00:00 MST

As expected, Activision's Modern Warfare 2 has marched straight into the top spots on the British charts, breaking practically every sales record it passed along the way.

In its first 5 days on sale, the game sold 1.78 million units, with platform honours going to the 360, which accounted for "over 1 million" of those. In terms of the British market, that's so many sales that if you combined every other game sold in Britain last week, Modern Warfare sold twice that amount.

The 1.78 million sold and £67.4 raked in easily beats the country's previous launch record-holder, GTAIV, which could "only" manage 927,000 units at £39.9m.

PC Sales Charts: The Age Of Dragons

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

I was on holiday, so the PC sales charts were on holiday. Now that I'm back, well, you've probably read the headline by now.

When I left, MMO Aion was king, having dominated both the Steam and Direct2Drive charts for weeks. How things have changed. BioWare's Dragon Age is now top dog, not only occupying top spot on both charts, but 5 of the 20 total spots available when you factor in all the different versions.

Also nice to see Torchlight doing well.

PC Digital Download Charts For The Week Ending November 7

Steam

1. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
2. Dragon Age: Origins
3. Left 4 Dead 2 (pre-sale)
4. Borderlands
5. Torchlight
6. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (pre-sale)
7. Football Manager 2010
8. Mass Effect
9. Shattered Horizon
10. Aion

Direct2Drive

1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
3. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition (+ strategy guide)
4. Borderlands
5. Torchlight
6. Tropico 3
7. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition
8. Aion
9. Fallen Earth
10. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

[via Shacknews]

British Sales Charts: The Calm Before The Storm

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:30:00 MST

Welcome to last week's British sales charts, where a number of games have done the chivalrous thing and kept the seat warm for the incoming Modern Warfare 2.

You'll see Wii Fit and Wii Sports Resort up there, which is awful swell of them, but if the 360 and PS3 versions of MW2 aren't sitting in their spots next week I'll eat whatever hat you put in front of me. Nacho, beret, bowler, doesn't matter.

Matter of fact, FM2010 in third place is probably also in danger, what with MW2 also shipping on PC. I know, the British charts aren't normally very PC-friendly (aside from, you know...FM2010), but if ever a PC game was going to crack it, it's going to be this one.

PC Sales Charts: Aion? Aion?

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:30:00 MDT

No let-up for sales of Aion this week, which if it keeps this up may well rank as one of the biggest surprise hits of the year on the PC.

The MMO took the top two spots on both the Steam and Direct2Drive charts, leaving other big releases like Fallen Earth, Resident Evil 5 and Batman in its dust.

PC Digital Download Charts For The Week Ending September 26

Steam

1. Aion Collector's Edition
2. Aion
3. Fallen Earth
4. Batman: Arkham Asylum
5. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
6. Left 4 Dead
7. Resident Evil 5
8. Counter-Strike
9. Star Wars Jedi Knight Collection
0. Red Faction: Guerrilla

Direct2Drive

1. Aion Collector's Edition
2. Aion
3. Fallen Earth
4. Neverwinter Nights 2
5. Assassin's Creed Director's Cut
6. Titan Quest Bundle
7. Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir
8. Champions Online
9. BioShock
10. Star Wars: KOTOR

[via Shacknews]

PC Sales Charts: Yeah Yeah, Aion

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:00:00 MDT

With the game out this week, you'd think sales of MMO Aion would have dropped off. That maybe it was one of those "get in early" types of games, with sales dying down once it was released. Nope.

NCSoft's MMO is still #1 on both the Steam and Direct2Drive charts, to the point where it kept the release of Batman: Arkham Asylum out of top spot.

PC Digital Download Charts For The Week Ending September 19

Steam

1. Aion Collector's Edition (Pre-Sale)
2. Batman: Arkham Asylum
3. Resident Evil 5
4. Star Wars Jedi Knight Collection
5. Garry's Mod
6. Left 4 Dead
7. Red Faction: Guerrilla
8. Aion Standard Edition (Pre-Sale)
9. Counter-Strike Source
10. Champions Online

Direct2Drive

1. Aion Collector's Edition (Pre-Sale)
2. Champions Online
3. Batman: Arkham Asylum
4. Fallen Earth (Pre-Sale)
5. BioShock
6. The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
7. Need for Speed SHIFT
8. Star Wars: KOTOR
9. Majesty 2
10. Aion Standard Edition (Pre-Sale)

[via Shacknews]

PC Sales Charts: Still With The MMOs

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:30:00 MDT

Last week's charts were dominated by two MMOs, Champions Online and Aion. This week? Same story.

Both games continue to hold down the top two spots on both the Steam and Direct2Drive charts, ahead of usual suspects like Left 4 Dead, new/old kid on the block KOTOR and, surprisingly, Darkest Days. I say "surprisingly" because I've heard it's complete rubbish.

PC Digital Download Charts For The Week Ending September 12

Steam

1. Aion Collector's Edition (pre-sale)
2. Champions Online
3. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
4. Left 4 Dead
5. Street Fighter IV
6. Braid
7. Counter-Strike: Source
8. Darkest of Days
9. Section 8
10. Aion Standard Edition (pre-sale)

Direct2Drive

1. Champions Online
2. Aion Collector's Edition (pre-sale)
3. Fallen Earth (pre-sale)
4. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
5. Aion Standard Edition (pre-sale)
6. Section 8
7. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition
8. Civilization 4
9. Darkest of Days
10. The Sims 3

[via Shacknews]

British Sales Charts: We Did Not See This One Coming

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:00:00 MDT

The British charts are a mostly predictable thing. Nintendo games most of the time, football games when applicable, shooters at Christmas. But last week threw up a little surprise.

Topping the charts was not Batman, not a Wii game, not a DS game, and definitely not Beatles Rock Band.

No, coming in at #1 was the 360 version of Colin McRae: DiRT 2. Bit of a shock, seeing the sequel to a decent if unappreciated racer come in ahead of The Beatles and The Batman. Then again, neither of those games were advertised by a pair of tits.

So, Which Games Made The NPD's 11-20 List For August?

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:20:00 MDT

The NPD Group always announce the ten best-selling games for the previous month first. Let the glory boys get all the attention. Then, on Friday, they quietly pay respects to the ten games that didn't quite make the cut.

Those ten games, running 11-20 on the charts, can be found on Gamasutra, and what a pitiful bunch they are. For reference, Madden 10 on Wii only sold 67,000 units across the United States, meaning in August for a game to make the top 20 it simply had to be released.

PC Sales Charts: They Are The Champions, My Friends

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:30:00 MDT

The PC world went MMO mad last week, with both the Steam and Direct2Drive charts topped by the same two massively multiplayer online titles.

Champions Online came in at #1 on both charts, while Aion's strong pre-release sales continued, ending up in second place on both charts.

PC Digital Download Charts For The Week Ending September 5

Steam

1. Champions Online
2. Aion Collector's Edition (Pre-Order)
3. Street Fighter IV
4. Left 4 Dead
5. Counter-Strike: Source
6. THQ Collector Pack
7. Section 8
8. Team Fortress 2
9. Killing Floor
10. The Orange Box

Direct2Drive

1. Champions Online
2. Aion Collector's Edition (pre-sale)
3. Fallen Earth (pre-sale)
4. Section 8
5. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition
6. Aion (pre-sale)
7. Rise of Flight
8. Fallout 3
9. Dawn of Discovery
10. F.E.A.R. 2

[via Shacknews]

August's Top-Selling PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade Games

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:00:00 MDT

No prizes for guessing what the most popular games were on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade last month, what with the release of a much-loved fighter and a modern take on Metroid.

Shadow Complex easily comes in on top of the XBLA charts, as you'd expect from a game that's challenging retail games in terms of units shifted. As for the PSN, Marvel vs Capcom 2 came in ahead of Fat Princess.

In-Depth: North American PlayStation Network Sales Analysis, August 2009 [GamerBytes]
XBLA: In-Depth: Xbox Live Arcade Sales Analysis, August 2009 [GamerBytes]

PC Sales Charts: Buy Now, Play Later

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:30:00 MDT

One thing that always gets me about the PC sales charts is the number of times you see a game tagged "pre-sale".

It's interesting, because it reveals a level of dedication in the PC market you don't normally see from console gamers. When you think of a "pre-order" for a game at, say, GameStop, you think of a small investment. $5-10 down up-front, then you pay for the rest once the game comes in. If, that is, you still want it by then.

But the "pre-sales" offered by Steam and Direct2Drive are something else. You are, in effect, committing to purchase a game weeks/months before it's actually released. That's dedication. It also gives us these strange sales charts, where games that aren't even out are able to "outsell" those that are.

PC Digital Download Charts For The Week Ending August 29

Steam

1. Left 4 Dead
2. Aion Collector's Edition (pre-sale)
3. THQ Collector's Pack
4. Counter-Strike: Source
5. Killing Floor
6. Team Fortress 2
7. The Orange Box
8. Fallout Collection
9. Call of Duty 4
10. Valve Complete Pack

Direct2Drive

1. Champions Online (pre-sale)
2. Fallen Earth (pre-sale)
3. Aion Collector's Edition (pre-sale)
4. Rise of Flight
5. Fallout 3
6. Hearts of Iron III
7. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition
8. Call of Duty: World at War
9. The Sims 3
10. The Witcher: Enhanced Edition - Director's Cut

[via Shacknews]