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
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A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
The price of entry is too high to take chances like I used to. Was looking at V Rising and that ranges from $50-$130 CAD. That’s a lot for an indie imo. By the time it goes on sale, the player count might be dwindling. But that’s the trade-off, I guess.
"Nordic Game has revealed the winners of this year’s Nordic Game Awards, which took place on Thursday, May 23, during NG24 Spring and streamed live from Slagthuset in Malmö, Sweden." - Nordic Game.
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.