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UK Sales Chart, Week Ending May 14th

While the industry’s attention was fixed on E3, the UK charts show that most consumers have instead been preoccupied with the launch of the final Star Wars movie, the vid...

David Jenkins, Blogger

May 23, 2005

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While the industry’s attention was fixed on E3, the UK charts show that most consumers have instead been preoccupied with the launch of the final Star Wars movie, the video game version of which easily held on to the number one spot in the UK sales charts. Regardless of this, Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport has performed extremely well, becoming the biggest Xbox release of the year so far in the UK. Meanwhile, the sudden spike in soccer management title Championship Manger 5’s sales is due to the release of the console versions of the game. The other new entry in the charts this week is Singstar Popworld, which has entered at a much higher position than previous iterations of the karaoke series. Although the games have proven to be long terms sellers, they have normally only occupied the lower reaches of the chart, which could suggest that Sony are genuinely starting to reach a new and significantly sized audience with non-game titles. The only other new entries in the top forty this week was SRS: Street Racing Syndicate at number twenty-three, and a re-entry for Star Wars: Battlefront at number forty – proving that the Force really is with LucasArts at the moment.

TW

LW

Title

Publisher

Formats

Weeks

1

1

Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Activision/Ubisoft

PS2/Xb/GBA/DS

2

2

NE

Forza Motorsport

Microsoft

Xb

1

3

17

Championship Manager 5

EA

PS2/Xb/PC

9

4

2

Lego Star Wars: The Video Game

Eidos

PS2/Xb/PC/GBA

4

5

3

FIFA Street

EA

PS2/Xb/GC

10

6

4

Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition

Rockstar

PS2/Xb

5

7

NE

Singstar Popworld

Sony

PS2

1

8

6

Gran Turismo 4

Sony

PS2

10

9

5

World Snooker Championship 2005

Sega

PS2/Xb/PC

5

10

8

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Ubisoft

PS2/Xb/GC/PC

7

Official UK Leisure Software Charts (c) ELSPA compiled by Chart-Track

About the Author

David Jenkins

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David Jenkins ([email protected]) is a freelance writer and journalist working in the UK. As well as being a regular news contributor to Gamasutra.com, he also writes for newsstand magazines Cube, Games TM and Edge, in addition to working for companies including BBC Worldwide, Disney, Amazon and Telewest.

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