The latest UK Software charts have been released.
Here's the Top 40.
Title Format Label Publisher
1 MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES WII SEGA SEGA
2 DR KAWASHIMA'S BRAIN TRAINING DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
3 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE XB360 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION
4 MARIO PARTY 8 WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
5 MORE BRAIN TRAINING FROM DR KAWASHIMA DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
6 ASSASSIN'S CREED XB360 UBISOFT UBISOFT
7 NEED FOR SPEED: PROSTREET PS2 EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
8 SUPER MARIO GALAXY WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
9 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: SING IT! PS2 DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS 10 THE SIMPSONS GAME PS2 EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
11 COOKING MAMA DS 505 GAMES 505 GAMES
12 BIG BRAIN ACADEMY: WII DEGREE WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
13 FIFA 08 PS2 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
14 SIGHT TRAINING DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
15 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE PS3 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION
16 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
17 NEED FOR SPEED: PROSTREET XB360 EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
18 THE SIMPSONS GAME DS EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
19 HALO 3 XB360 MICROSOFT MICROSOFT
20 RAYMAN RAVING RABBIDS 2 WII UBISOFT UBISOFT
21 FORZA MOTORSPORT 2 XB360 MICROSOFT MICROSOFT
22 LINK'S CROSSBOW TRAINING WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
23 UNCHARTED: DRAKE'S FORTUNE PS3 SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY
24 VIVA PIÑATA XB360 MICROSOFT MICROSOFT
25 NEED FOR SPEED: PROSTREET PS3 EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
26 PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2008 PS2 KONAMI KONAMI
27 KANE & LYNCH: DEAD MEN XB360 EIDOS EIDOS
28 WWE SMACKDOWN VS RAW 2008 PS2 THQ THQ
29 FIFA 08 PS3 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
30 BIG BRAIN ACADEMY DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
31 FIFA 08 PSP EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
32 RESIDENT EVIL: THE UMBRELLA CHRONICLES WII CAPCOM NINTENDO
33 PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2008 XB360 KONAMI KONAMI
34 ASSASSIN'S CREED PS3 UBISOFT UBISOFT
35 FIFA 08 XB360 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
36 THE GOLDEN COMPASS WII SEGA SEGA
37 DEAL OR NO DEAL DS MINDSCAPE KOCH MEDIA
38 MASS EFFECT XB360 MICROSOFT MICROSOFT
39 42 ALL-TIME CLASSICS DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
40 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK XB360 REDOCTANE ACTIVISION
"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".
I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.
I said this yesterday. AI isn't what we want when it comes to crafting artistry. Alas, these soulless corporate morons don't care about their work, only about cutting corners as much as possible.
Has the rapid growth of Xbox made the ship too heavy? Following the closures of Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, and Roundhouse, we explore what the future of Xbox could look like.
This ship was never meant to sail, this ship was made from the get go to sink as fast as possible. It almost feels that they want to lower the standards of quality in the industry so that they can fit in
I disagree, Xbox from the get go innovated and changed the industry. They did a lot of firsts and standardized a lot of others. It wasn’t till the beginning of the Xbox1 era that things started to go south.
Yep, although I’d argue it started going to shit when they tried to hock Kinect on their audience instead of continuing to invest in their studios and IPs. 2001-2010 Xbox was peak gaming, though.
@Stevonidas
I agree they never should have focused on it after the 360 era. But you do have to remember they were faked out by the huge volumes of Kinects sold. To quote info on Wikipedia, “Project Natal, It was first released on November 4, 2010, and would go on to sell eight million units in its first 60 days of availability.” So if your Xbox and see these huge sales on a peripheral where are you going to put some money? Criticism in hindsight is worthless…..if only we could all see our future. In other wards they had no way of knowing. Plus they had engagement numbers and a lot of signs pointed to people wanting it.
Their biggest mistake wasn’t the Kinect, but unlike Sony after the PS3 debacle. They didn’t double on down on exclusive good games. The other huge mistake was letting Call of Duty go to Sony.
Xbox has no soul and Phil has no confidence, and it's impossible to say either do when they killed Tango and Arkane Austin.
Everything they've said since has only made them look worse to a point that they're actually less competent than Embracer.
Whe you release something like the series S and expect it not to hurt your business model, and developers have to have parity with games. Then you know Microsoft don't care. Series s is the final nail that broke developers,
While on stage with Dina Bass at The Bloomberg Technology Summit the President of Xbox, Sarah Bond, was asked about the Xbox studio closures of Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios
Of course she did. She's part of the problem and will just tow the company line.
Bloomberg’s Dina Bass could barely read her scripted question without looking at her notes, whilst Sarah Bond who WAS expecting the question spoke without saying anything of substance or answering the question in any meaningful way. Clearly she’s had the same expert PR training as Phil, but this avoidance was disrespectful. In time the short-sighted decision to shut down Tango Gameworks will be seen as of the most notorious examples why Phil Spencer messed up his tenure in charge of Xbox. That’s a fully built out talented team that could’ve been put to work on any project.
Additionally, Phil Spencer should not be using Sarah Bond as a patsy for his mistakes- he should be answering that question.
I think you are all really overselling Tangos value. Hi-Fi rush was a lot of fun. Ghostwire was incredibly dull. Evil within 1 and 2 were just okay.
Evil within 2 was incredibly under rated. I thought that game was surprisingly good
Someone else said it best. I don't think it was a Phil decision. It was most likely a Satya decision. I think Microsoft is done giving out free money to Xbox.
people please boycott Activision Bethesda next release and support Hellblade.
these people mus understand that they cannot treat their fans and employees that way.
scumbags.
She's playing her role. There's absolutely nothing any of them can say other than the truth, this is about profit margins and not quality, so they just don't answer anything and wait for gamers to forget.
I think news is coming of more ps5 release but they gotta be careful cause Xbox is still sitting on store shelves. They can't get left holding all that stock
Come next month they'll flash nice looking games in our faces and expecting us to forget.
The only thing that'll be going through my mind at their showcase is how many of those studios will get shut down after release.
I'm not joking around either. MS probably expects every game to be like COD and do COD numbers. What a way to destroy gaming for the entire industry because they're dumb af at being realistic in what success means for each game.
Always feels she was brought in / promoted for this. Happened just before things started to be out in motion.
Phil and co have someone to throw under the bus and share the blame with
I always wondered why xbox had multiple leaders with similar titles like Phil Spencer, Matt Booty, and Sarah Bond, like, how many heads do you actually need?
Seems to me it would be more cost efficient to cut 2 of them instead of all those studios.
Frankly, I suspect she is the most competent of them. I don't mean that I like her more, I mean that she's the best at articulating herself and giving the talking points MS wants to give. The others are starting to sound more like her than her sounding like any of them.
Are any of these people "responsible" for what's happening? No. This reeks of Nadella. But that being said, I don't see any of the Xbox heads stepping down in protest.
"Don't shoot the messenger", sure, but at the same time, the messengers don't seem to take umbrage with the message. Not enough to remove themselves from it, anyway.
I disagree. Nadella is looking for profit as a CEO should in my opinion.
The problem is Dr. Phil & Co. had 10 years to bring Xbox back on track and have been failing woefully.
Phil needs to sell to Nadella that if we are to make a profit, we need to make great games. And to do that we need employees here for the long haul and the freedom to work on creative projects.
But as Phil said himself he doesn’t believe great games sell consoles.
Dude, 100%, forgot Major Nelson and Aaron Greenberg, like what is the point for all these suits? They have more C-level executives than games released in a generation.
This is just so they can all pass along the hot potato one at a time and in between all of them can say a lot without actually saying anything, misinformation at its finest.
The PS3 bombs.
My advise to Sony. Make good games about the concepts that are hot right now or that people care about.
People right now like futuristic shooters, zombies, horror, street crime. This games theme was too cheesy in my opinion.
ChartTracks data goes up to the 8th. The Uncharted was released on the 7th.
Give people chance to buy it.
It isn't a big secret that the 360 has the highest games attach rate. It sells more software than the Wii and the PS3 combined.
This website is funny sometimes. The legion of Sony zealots that infest it are always claiming Blu-ray's victory when it comes to disk/software sales.
But they fail to apply the same logic when it comes to disk/software sales for a games console. The defenition of irony if you ask me.
Uncharted was released on Friday the 7th, aswell as Singstar. This chart stops on the 8th. Although the software sales for the PLAYSTATION 3, in my opinion, have been very disappointing it is unfair and criminal to slant off Uncharted and the PLAYSTATION 3 with such a cheap headline.
A person above me said the same thing, yet was disagreed with which gives a suggestion of the people involved with this article. But I suppose with the lack of negativity surrounding Sony's console as of late, desperate measures to try and mock it and dismiss it because of people's insecurities, or abnormal personal hatred for Sony, have resulted in desperately cheap tactics.
Ratchet & Clank bombed and although I don't expect Uncharted to make an impact with sales, we should wait to judge by at least giving it a week instead of 24hours. This is such a stupid submission it is unreal. Mass Effect dropped from 16th last week, to 38th yet Uncharted is considered to have "bombed".
EDIT: To those who are disagreeing, you make me laugh. Honestly.
Usually the games that don't do well are usually the best like for example Okami and Suikoden series. Legendary games but they bombed in the charts.
I am getting this game for Christmas and it looks great even if it fails most charts give a week before they are placed on a top 40.
Or we could ignore the spot for uncharted and laugh at Mass Effect.