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This week's UK sales chart sees Electronic Arts’ soccer simulation FIFA 07 returning to the top of the UK charts for the third time, after briefly being deposed by Need for Speed Carbon, a 3 year come-back from the Simpsons, and the disappea

David Jenkins, Blogger

January 3, 2007

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Electronic Arts’ soccer simulation FIFA 07 has returned to the top of the UK charts for the third time, after briefly being deposed by Need for Speed Carbon last week. With no major releases due until Lost Planet on the Xbox 360 next week, all the movement in the charts this week has been due to mass discounting of some titles in the January sales. Both FIFA 07 and fellow soccer game Pro Evolution Soccer 6 have seen their chart position benefit from the sales, although Canis Canem Edit (aka Bully) has seen the biggest jump in the top ten, with a move of twelve places. Elsewhere in the top forty, Tomb Raider Legend has risen twenty-six places to number thirteen, while The Simpsons: Hit & Run has re-entered that charts at number twenty-four – three years after its initial release. With the Wii console, and much of its peripherals and software, out of stock in the UK there are no Wii exclusive titles in the top forty. In the Wii only software chart though Ubisoft’s Red Steel is the best selling game, followed by The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Rayman Raving Rabbids.

TW

LW

Title

Publisher

Formats

Weeks

1

2

FIFA 07

EA

PS2/Xb/GC/360/PC/GBA/DS/PSP

14

2

3

Pro Evolution Soccer 6

Konami

PS2/360/PC

8

3

1

Need for Speed Carbon

EA

All Formats

9

4

5

The Sims 2 Pets

EA

PS2/GC/PC/GBA/DS/PSP

11

5

4

Call of Duty 3

Activision

PS2/Xb/360/Wii

8

6

6

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007

THQ

PS2/360/PSP

10

7

9

Gears of War

Microsoft

360

7

8

20

Canis Canem Edit

Rockstar

PS2

10

9

8

Dr Kawashima's Brain Training

Nintendo

DS

30

10

12

Cars

Activision

All Formats

25

Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2006 ELSPA Ltd

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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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