Zumba Fitness, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Sims 3 on top in the UK – Charts
Another week has gone by in the world of gaming and another chart is up for everyone to analyse, or just look at, filled with gaming’s most financially successful titles from yester-week.
Starting off with the best selling game, if one could call it that, across platforms is Zumba Fitness on the Nintendo Wii. What the United Kingdom’s obsession with a workout game is, half the gaming population does not know, and the other half is too busy
playing the game to comment.
Whether or not Zumba Fitness counts as a game is still up in the air, but for now, just like for the previous five weeks, it continues to outrun everyone else in the pack.
Codemasters are doing fairly well also; remaining in the top three for another week running, but doing just as well is Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Transforming itself in the number two on the overall charts, the game is also number one on the PlayStation 3 sales charts for the previous week, replicating the box office success of its Hollywood counterpart.
Dirt 3 seems to like the number at the end of the title as it is in third place on the PS3 charts as well, just one spot behind Sucker Punch’s electrifying InFamous 2.
It is a different story altogether on the PC front as The Sims 3: Generations seems to have made the number one spot its own. The virtual reality real life simulation game managed to beat out competition from titles such as SEGA’s Football Manager 2011,
in the UK. Which makes everyone wonder, has the UK lost its interest in football and is focusing more on fitness and virtual doll houses instead?
While that in itself is a debate on its own, the charts take on a slightly more alarming picture with Sims 3 coming in at third place. Just to clarify, Bettor.com does not have anything against the Sims; however, seeing it at the top spot is a bit of a shock.
Sticking to PC and PlayStation 3 games, it seems that the recently released Annihilation Downloadable Content pack for Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has done the trick. The Vietnam-era shooter has made its way back into the charts; sneaking in at the
number 10 spot on the PC charts and doing marginally better on the PlayStation 3 charts, where it has jumped up to the number 4 spot.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 did not make it into the Top 10 however, as it could not pull off a ‘Transformers’ and replicate its Hollywood movie success in the gaming world.
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