FIFA Scores Christmas No. 1
The momentum of the mainstream pushes EA's footballer into the top spot before Christmas.
The glory stayed with EA this year but it wasn't Need For Speed: Carbon that ended up as the Christmas No. 1. Rather, that honour fell to a more obvious choice: the popular and massively multiplatform FIFA 07.
This is the first time since 1998 that a FIFA game has taken the year-end victory. The last two years have both gone to Need For Speed games, and bookmakers had tapped Carbon to make it three in a row.
Elsewhere, the lack of comparative audience sizes kept the big games for Xbox 360 and Wii down, though Gears of War did still manage to hit the Top 10. Not so for Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Link's sword-happy adventure fell to No 12 this week, and Wii Play nearly fell out of the Top 40 altogether.
No matter. Nintendo is lining up a strong roster of games to keep Wii owners busy over the coming months, in an attempt to stave off the calm that usually follows the hardware launch storm.
The Top 10 games for the week ending 16 December, as determined by Chart Track, are below:
- FIFA 07 (EA)
- Need For Speed: Carbon (EA)
- WWE SmackDown Vs Raw 2007 (THQ)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (Konami)
- Call of Duty 3 (Activision)
- The Sims 2: Pets (EA)
- Gears of War (Microsoft)
- Happy Feet (Midway)
- Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (LucasArts)
- Cars (THQ)
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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