[feisar]

CHART TRACK UK ALL SOFTWARE (ALL PRICES)
WEEK 43 YEAR 2003 ENDING 25TH OCTOBER

1 FIFA 2004 - EA
2 PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 3 - Konami
3 TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 2004 - EA
4 FINDING NEMO - THQ
5 MEDAL OF HONOR: FRONTLINE - EA
6 EYE TOY: PLAY - SONY
7 MAX PAYNE 2: THE FALL OF MAX PAYNE - Take2
8 CLUB FOOTBALL - Codemasters
9 CONFLICT: DESERT STORM II - SCi
10 JAK II: RENEGADE - SONY
11 FIFA 2003 - EA
12 RUGBY 2004 - EA
13 HARRY POTTER - CHAMBER OF SECRETS - EA
14 THE GETAWAY - SONY
15 LORD OF THE RINGS - THE TWO TOWERS - EA
16 SOULCALIBUR II - Nintendo/EA
17 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: CHAOS BLEEDS - Vivendi
18 DANCE: UK - BigBen
19 COLIN MCRAE RALLY 04 - Codemasters
20 SUPER MARIO ADVANCE 4: SUPER MARIO 3 - Nintendo
21 JAMES BOND 007: NIGHTFIRE - EA
22 HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED - Microsoft
23 CRASH BANDICOOT - WRATH OF CORTEX - Vivendi
24 RAYMAN 3 - UbiSoft
25 FINAL FANTASY TACTICS ADVANCE - Nintendo
26 TIMESPLITTERS 2 - Eidos
27 HITMAN 2: SILENT ASSASSIN - Eidos
28 VIEWTIFUL JOE - Capcom Eurosoft
29 HIDDEN & DANGEROUS 2 - Take2
30 TONY HAWK'S PRO SKATER 4 - Activision
31 INTERNATIONAL CUE CLUB - Midas
32 POKEMON RUBY - Nintendo
33 DANCING STAGE PARTY EDITION - Konami
34 TOM CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL - UbiSoft
35 POKEMON SAPPHIRE - Nintendo
36 FREEDOM FIGHTERS - EA
37 WARHAMMER 40,000: FIRE WARRIOR - THQ
38 GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY - Take2
39 ENTER THE MATRIX - Infogrames
40 SIMPSONS: ROAD RAGE - EA

- Fifa takes the top spot from Pro Evolution Soccer 3.. how long will it last? Viewtiful Joe and FF Tactics Advance thankfully manage to chart thanks to universal critical acclaim, although its sad that two of the best games of the past 10 years miss the top 20 while rubbish finding nemo gets to no4.

- Sales ratio PS2:N-Gage in the UK last week = 125:1

- The UK is being brainwashed! Fifa 2004 at no1 and Fifa 2003 at no11.. with the chart filled with other EA sports shovelware *sob*

- Copies of Eye Toy sold in Europe = 1,000,000+

- Copies of Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire sold in Europe = 1,500,000+

- Next weeks big releases = Billy Hatcher & The Giant Egg, Worms 3D, F-Zero GX, Crimson Skies and Time Crisis 3.

Sequels = 29
Original games = 11
non-film/sport/boardgame/music licenced original games = 8

[DomStLeger]

Woah! Only 8 of the 40 are non-licensed games? That really suprised me, just shows how short on good ideas the games idsurty is at the moment. Either that or gamers really will buy anything.

Perhaps a few adventure games need to get a few licenses. Pete Samprases' Broken Sword anyone? Appropriate as it will be a tennis game

[nordic_guy]

Wow, Crash Bandicoot is still on the list?
And Jak II has climbed, right?

[pleto4_ryan]

3 TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 2004 - EA

Still?...i have to try it

6 EYE TOY: PLAY - SONY

That's nice...isn't it?

13 HARRY POTTER - CHAMBER OF SECRETS - EA

Yikes, why do they DO this...

20 SUPER MARIO ADVANCE 4: SUPER MARIO 3 - Nintendo

Oh...well

16 SOULCALIBUR II - Nintendo/EA

what does the game do in other consoles?

although its sad that two of the best games of the past 10 years miss the top 20 while rubbish finding nemo gets to no4.

shouldn't Final Fantasy freaks (point's self) have made this number one or something...After all IT IS final fantasy in Nintendo again....and IT IS portable

[feisar]

Jak II is up one place. Its nice to see it not only hanging on but improving. Crash Bandecoot has been in the charts for a very long time now, its a simular situation to when Rayman 1 stuck in the UK charts for 5/6 years on the psx despite being a bit crap.

Soul Calibur II. All three versions are added up and counted as one in the charts, as always with multiformat releases. The Gamecube version has outsold the others and is published by Nintendo. The Xbox and PS2 versions are published by EA.


Final Fantasy was never on nintendo in the UK. It all started with Sony on the PSOne and has been tightly ingraned with sony ever since.. although they may say different, virtually no-one cared about final fantasy in the UK until 1997.

FF has been very strong on both sony consoles. Releases of the past games have been about all thats keeping the PSOne going in terms of new releases over the past two years (along with dance games, beyblade and yu-gi-oh)..

So anyway the GBA "return to nintendo" gets treated as nintendo stealing another franchise to try to make people buy their console (like MGS & Resident Evil). Not to mention the extremely low profile release, nintendo shouldve been shouting from the hills over having a FF game yet there wasnt even an advert outside the nintendo magazines. Ive yet to see it on sale outside of a specialist online retailer either..