UK Charts: PS3 storms the top ten

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via gibiz

After hardware sales saw Sony's PS3 achieve record success in the UK, it's not surprising to see software for the new home console also bedding into the all-formats charts.

Insomniac's Resistance: Fall of Man and Evolution Studios's Motorstorm take the number one and two positions respectively, scoring hits for first-party development.

However, Codemaster's Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 took the number three position in the charts, proving that it wasn't necessary to be on a new console to achieve high sales during the busy launch weekend.

The multiformat Virtua Tennis 3 took the number four position in the charts, while Activision's Call of Duty 3 saw a boost from new format sales – jumping from number 20 to number five.

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories still managed to perform well at a budget price, sitting at number six in the charts and beating the PS3-exclusive Formula 1: Championship Edition at number seven.

THQ's long-awaited PC shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl achieved good sales on its first weekend of release, taking the number eight position in the all-formats chart.

EA's Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 is at nine this week and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 is at number ten.

There are plenty of other new entries in the top twenty this week, with Bandai Namco's Ridge Racer 7 at number 11 just ahead of EA's Def Jam: Icon at number 12.

Sega's Virtua Fighter 5 enters the charts at number 14, EA's UEFA Champions League 2006 – 2007 at number 15 and Sony's Genji: Days of the Blade at 16.

Ubisoft's TMNT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles also makes its debut this week at number 19, while EA's Fight Night Round 3 and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog both enjoy a sales spurt due to PS3 releases - they're at numbers 13 and 24 respectively.

A look at the specific PlayStation 3 chart reveals that Sony has four first-party developed titles in the top twenty, with Resistance, Motorstorm and Formula 1 holding the top three positions. Electronic Arts has five titles in the top twenty, Sega has four and Activision has three.

[IM back!]

sucses!

maby sony can now have more income to incres PSP support!

[SushiP]

IM back!:
You're joking, right? Sony lacks EVERYTHING BUT large amounts of money. XD

[VFerg]

Great for sony. STALKER on the other hand was pretty bad...

[Basil Zero]

IM back!:
You're joking, right? Sony lacks EVERYTHING BUT large amounts of money. XD

can u please stop acting like a mindless fanboy with no evidence to back up


anyways, this is good for sony ,especially the amount of ps3s they sold in the launch in euro

cheers for sony:thumbup:

[Arun70]

Does anyone know how many PS3s have already been sold?

[jonezybaby]

well im guessin hundreds of thousands cus every1 in the world arnt microsoft and nintendo fanboys, and most ppl arnt botherd by the price, i look at the price and see wat it can do and wala! bargin.

£425 for a PS3 is a bargin becus of the blu-ray player, normal blu-ray players are sellin at around the £1000 mark so suck on that microsoft and nintendo fanboys

[tsimehC]

Haha! I can't help but laugh. The Sony PR have been very clever, they feed through various sites certain success stories but when I browse through other sites, I find things like 5 out of 50 PS3's sold in HMV in Brighton. What's that about?