UK Game Charts: October 15-21

TorugotoShinsan hit the nail on the head there good point made people need to realise the UK market is different thats why people buy different games kids like cars parewnts buy it for them not everyone is a hardcore gamer that actually needs to get out and enjoy something else

I expected Battlefield 2142 to do a bit better

No matter how much of sports fan, Splinter Cell DA has to be HIGHER!

Several things the American users need to know before yelling "ZOMG CHART SUCKZ" Sports games are popular in the UK and they attract a lot of causal gamers. The market for casual gamers in the UK is huge hence the high sales for The Sims, the DS and PS2 was well as lisenced games like Cars. Lego Star Wars is awesome. Deal with it. There is a large market for games targeted towards kids and families which also explains why Cars is doing well. This is a combined chart. However if I remember correctly, the console listed is the one that got the most sales. Once again the market for sports games in the UK is huge. I can imagine the Wii selling out very quicklyt purely due to Wii Sports. There aren't a great deal of games on the 360 that appear to casuals. Couple that with the fact that we're still paying on average the equivalent of $550-600 for a 360 and that will explain why it hasn't really exploded over here.

I am ashamed to be a UK gamer. What kind of disaster of a top 10 is that. Am I the only one who has a quality collection of games in this country or what. (Most recent purchase was Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence before that was Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney) Fantastic games. Not the pile of garbage that sits above me.

What the hell, Cars is rubbish. Why do the people in the UK buy that game. I know I certainly didn't...

CARS!!! wtf casuals

CARS!!! still there! amazing

i live in the u.k and i am digusted about football games selling stupidly large amounts of copies, i have little intrest in a sport that involves 11 men running up and down a field for an hour and a half chasing a bit of plastic, let alone a game that people play of it, it's like watching paint dry. (hey, E.A, if your listening, there's a game idea, which you can cheat people out of their money every year), i just don't understand it

lawl ...cars

WTF!!! How is cars still in the top 10 and how has KH2 suddenly dropped from 6 to off the board?

EK-ANDY yes sport is generly the biggest genre but the second a gta game comes out the sport is put to one side and gtas first for about 2 months +

UK is loyal to PS2. Don't be surprised if this continues until PS3 comes out here.

cars has been up there for like 20 weeks now...im quite impressed

Normally there are more DS games ... but now there are none ...

For everyone saying "Only one 360 game?"...*sigh* I can't believe I have to say this again. It is a multiformat chart! Meaning that if it says PS2, it also includes any other versions of that game on any other platform. So there were 5 360 games in the chart....if you add them up.

The only suprising thing about this is that Fifa 07 isnt first. Yes the UK is obsesed with football, but hey its a much more followed sport all over the world than American Football. I think the most poprular genre in the UK is sports.

this chart is taken from one place it means basically nothing

Hold up. With all the people bringing up the fact that there's no 360 games on the charts doesn't mean that there not selling in the top 20. First off second off, wait tilll FEAR, GoW, Rainbow Six vegas, and DOA extreme 2. You'll see some 360 chart toping. And another thing Splinter Cell 4, is doing better than BattleField 2142 and Tigerwoods 07. methedemon PS3's in the UK in 2006..................................',_,'

FISHERS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cars again !!!

TintedChimes, you are fogetting that this is the U.K....It doesn't have a large Portable gaming market.

Okay, that's strange - the release date is still November 24, 2006 for The Sims 2: Pets. EDIT: Fixed now.

Seriously, where's the portable game love?

I can't wait for the current gen version of Splinter Cell! And, hey, don't criticise us for buying all the football games, it's just the same in America with the Madden games.

yaay g0g0 Fifa =D

the 360 is deadborn in europe,sony still manages to be much more successful than the so called next gen from microsoft,wait until the ps3 arrive,sony rules.

ok...do UKers just buy anything with the word "football" on the cover? seriously..

football is knocked out by football. how very post modern.

whoa! 4 ea games. fifa football not rugby or any other sport football replaced by FOOTBALL manager tells you somethin bout us brits

in an ideal world, the 360 would have more than 1 ok game released every 3 months

in an ideal world this chart wouuld be dominated by the x360............

football, the greatest sport on earth does it agn!

Wow, football knocked off the top by... football! :roll:

The two extra days due to the street date breaking makes no difference. The charts end on Saturday, not Friday. Therefore, Friday new releases are always included in the charts that are released on Monday by Chart Track. Football Manager would have been #1 with or without the extra two days on sales.

The British do enjoy their football.