FIFA on Top as 2008 Limps Off the Line

Game sales suffer big drop as Britons reach out to FIFA.

We may have turned a page on the calendar but there's a familiar face on top of the UK sales chart this week.

In the first week of 2008, FIFA 08 has vaulted over Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, doing in the new year what it seemed unable to do towards the end of the old.

But it's in the face of a massive drop in sales that EA is seeing success.

With the Christmas binge fading into memory, sales have started returning to the more earthly levels we know them at. Because of this slowdown, games such as Assassin's Creed (down 70 per cent over last week) and Call of Duty 4 (down nearly 60 per cent) are well off their highs at the end of 2007.

Despite how the cumulative chart below looks, the best-selling individual game was More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima for the DS, which placed just ahead of Call of Duty 4 on the Xbox 360 and other Brain game, Dr Kawashima's Brain Training, in the third place.

The Top 20 games across all formats for the week ending 5 January, as determined by Chart Track, are below:

1. FIFA 08 (EA)
2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
3. The Simpsons Game (EA)
4. Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
5. Need for Speed: ProStreet (EA)
6. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Konami)
7. The Golden Compass (Sega)
8. More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
9. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Activision)
10. WWE SmackDown Vs Raw 2008 (THQ)
11. Cooking Mama (505)
12. The Sims 2: Castaway (EA)
13. Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
14. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 (EA)
15. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (LucasArts)
16. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (Eidos)
17. Wii Play with remote (Nintendo)
18. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
19. MySims (EA)
20. Football Manager 2008 (Sega)

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo