Gamasutra writes:
Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide.
This week's charts, with data taken from January 17th, 2008, feature Rock Band leading PS2 sales in North America, while Wii owners turn their attention to budget-priced titles like Luxor and Winter Sports. Data for "Saling The World" comes courtesy of the public sales information on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.co.jp, with sales split out for each platform and territory, and pre-orders disregarded.
Nintendo Wii
North America:
1. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Bundle (Activision)
2. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
3. Winter Sports: The Ultimate Challenge (Conspiracy),
4. Luxor: Pharaoh's Challenge (MumboJumbo)
5. Carnival Games (2K Games)
Japan:
1. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
2. Wii Sports (Nintendo)
3. Caduceus: New Blood (Atlus)
4. Nodame Cantabile: Dream * Orchestra (Bandai Namco)
5. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo).
Europe:
1. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)
2. Big Brain Academy for Wii (Nintendo)
3. LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (LucasArts)
4. Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (Capcom)
5. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo).
Xbox 360
North America:
1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
2. Rock Band Special Edition (EA Games)
3. Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
4. Halo 3 (Microsoft)
5. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Bundle (Activision).
Japan:
1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
2. Armored Core 4 - Xbox 360 Platinum Collection (From Software)
3. Dead Rising/Gears of War-360 Platinum Double Pack (Capcom/Microsoft)4. The IdolM@ster - Xbox 360 Platinum Collection (Namco)
5. FIFA 08 World Class Soccer (EA Sports)
Europe:
1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
2. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Bundle (Activision)
3. Halo 3 (Microsoft)
4. Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
5. Mass Effect (Microsoft).
PlayStation 3
North America:
1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
2. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (SCEA)
3. Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
4. Rock Band Special Edition (EA Games)
5. Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (SCEA).
Japan:
1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
2. Uncharted: El Dorado no Hihou (SCEI)
3. Armored Core 4 - The Best Collection (From Software)
4. Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (SCEI)
5. Shin Sangoku Musou 5 (Koei).
Europe:
1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
2. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Konami)
3. Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
4. Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction (SCEE)
5. FIFA 08 (EA Sports).
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
Call Of Duty is back with its yearly instalment, but is Modern Warfare 3 breaking new ground, or just a lazy cash grab? The answer may not surprise you in today's review from JDR.
The original Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 games have been drawing players back in
I really hope we get other activision games on GP soon. My dream would be Scarface but I know the license probably expired
Love me some Scarface! I even bought the comics. Yeah, licensing would probably be an impasse.
I played through Scarface again last year and it still holds up. Such a fun game. I would love for Xbox to get the rights back to remaster Scarface and make a sequel. It sold well and they had plans for Scarface 2, 3, and 4. With how long it takes Rockstar to make games the market is wide open.
That game was so much fun. Expected a cheap GTA clone but it was a good drug empire building game.
They didn't just have plans but there's actual gameplay out there for scarface 2
Seriously man we need games like
True crime
Sleeping dogs
Watch dogs( more like original not legion)
And proper saints row
GTA can’t be the only option we need other games
None of those games had dedicated servers on console in the first place? Were always player hosted. Did something change?
Damn COD4 is HOT!:D
Glad to see Uncharted and Ratchet selling fairly well. Also good to see Zack and Wiki on Wii is at least selling ok in Europe.
COD4 is owning!
Shin Sangoku Musou 5 and Wii Fit - I can't wait for those ^^
Yeah I'm surprised Uncharted didn't Chart in europe (No pun intended! ;) ) Seeing how a majority of the 800 K or so sales uncharted has made worldwide almost half has come from europe if not more.