C&C 3 Tops Turtles on Chart

EA's real-time strategy game squeaks by the half-shelled heroes in the UK.

TMNT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is out on more platforms and has a movie in the cinemas to spur it along, but Ubisoft's game wasn't able to parlay those advantages into chart victory this week.

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars sold just 592 copies more than TMNT but that was still enough to give EA's real-time strategy game a third week on top of the latest weekly ranking, according to Chart Track.

PlayStation 3 hardware sales slid for a second week despite no reports of any shortages. Software for the PS3 followed suit. Both Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm find themselves outside of the Top 10 this week.

No tears for EA, though. In addition to Command & Conquer 3, the company had another six games in the Top 20, underlining its status as the biggest publisher of games. Medal of Honor: Vanguard jumped into the Top 10 and The Sims 2 and related offshoots surged too.

The Top 20 games for the week ending 7 April, as determined by Chart Track, are below:

1. Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (EA)
2. TMNT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ubisoft)
3. Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 (Codemasters)
4. Medal of Honor: Vanguard (EA)
5. Guitar Hero II (Activision)
6. Virtua Tennis 3 (Sega)
7. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar)
8. UEFA Champions League 2006-2007 (EA)
9. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (EA)
10. Need for Speed: Carbon (EA)
11. Resistance: Fall of Man (Sony)
12. The Sims 2 (EA)
13. The Sims 2: Pets (EA)
14. Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
15. MotorStorm (Sony)
16. Rayman Raving Rabbids (Ubisoft)
17. Call of Duty 3 (Activision)
18. Sonic & The Secret Rings (Sega)
19. Crackdown (Microsoft)
20. New Super Mario Bros (Nintendo)

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo