Ubisoft’s ever popular
Rainbow Six series has once again topped the UK charts, with the Tom Clancy brand notching up its fifth all format number one in the UK (after
Splinter Cell,
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow,
Rainbow Six: Lockdown and
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2).
The success of
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 comes shortly after Ubisoft’s decision to acquire the Tom Clancy brand outright, for a figure
estimated to be around €60 million.
The game also topped the individual format charts, with the Xbox 360 version accounting for 77 percent of sales and selling 3.6 times more than the original from December 2006. In so doing it became the fourth fastest selling Xbox 360 game ever in the UK, behind only
Halo 3,
Call of Duty 4 and, by just 1,000 units,
Assassin’s Creed.
Sales were up almost across the board in the first half of the Easter weekend – generally reckoned to be the second busiest retail period in the UK after the run-up to Christmas. Combined sales of
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games were up 60 percent, but there were no other genuine new entries in the top ten.
Wii Play did re-appear once more in the top forty, at number seven, as usual signifying increased stock of Wii hardware. A number of Wii format re-entries lower in the charts further underlined the increased availability of the console itself, with
Guitar Hero III at number twenty-eight and
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz at number thirty-three.
Outside of the top ten the Wii version of
Sega Superstars Tennis entered the charts at number twelve, although none of the other versions charted in the top forty. The only other genuine new entry of the week was the Wii version of
CSI: Hard Evidence at number eighteen.
Overall there were eleven Wii titles in the top forty, equaled by eleven for the Nintendo DS. The Xbox 360 had eight titles in the charts, the PlayStation 3 six, the PC two and the PSP and PlayStation 2 one each.
| TW | LW | Title | Publisher | Format |
| 1 | NE | Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 | Ubisoft | 360 |
| 2 | 1 | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games | Sega | Wii |
| 3 | NE | Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 | Ubisoft | PS3 |
| 4 | 3 | Dr Kawashima's Brain Training | Nintendo | DS |
| 5 | 4 | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games | Sega | DS |
| 6 | 6 | Carnival Funfair Games | Take-Two | Wii |
| 7 | RE | Wii Play | Nintendo | Wii |
| 8 | 8 | Cooking Mama 2 | 505 Games | DS |
| 9 | 2 | Army of Two | EA | 360 |
| 10 | 12 | More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima | THQ | PC |
Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2008.
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