After missing out on the top spot last week by the smallest of margins, Ubisoft’s critically panned movie tie-in
TMNT has finally reached the top of the UK sales charts – after four weeks on sale. It has been a week of unusual triumph for Ubisoft, with the company’s new range of super budget PC re-releases also charting highly.
Older titles such as
Rayman 2, the original
Brothers in Arms and
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time all re-entered the top ten at their new £1 ($2) price point. In total, seven of the super budget titles were released, alongside heavy retailer promotions.
The original
Ghost Recon re-entered at number sixteen,
Heroes of Might & Magic IV at number eighteen,
Rainbow Six 3 Gold at number twenty-three and the original
Splinter Cell at number twenty-five.
Although the £1 price point is used by some specialist budget publishers, this is the first time that a major international publisher has launched its own range of titles with such a committed marketing push.
Technically, the only genuine new entry in the top ten is Nintendo DS title
Pokemon Ranger, which despite mixed reviews and a long delay from its U.S. release has performed extremely well for Nintendo – who have also seen
Brain Training (aka
Brain Age) re-enter the top ten for the third time.
The only other new entry in the top forty is mini-expansion
The Sims 2: Celebration Stuff, although the budget priced collection of items and clothing was actually released last week.
The highest ranked PlayStation 3 exclusive game of the week is
MotorStorm at number twenty-two, with a fall in Wii stock availability, after the busy Easter holidays, meaning that
Wii Play is the highest ranked Wii exclusive at number twenty-one.
| TW | LW | Title | Publisher | Formats | Weeks |
| 1 | 2 | TMNT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Ubisoft | PS2/360/Wii/PC/GBA/DS/PSP | 4 |
| 2 | NE | Pokemon Ranger | Nintendo | DS | 1 |
| 3 | RE | Rayman 2: The Great Escape | Ubisoft | PC | 22 |
| 4 | 9 | Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 | EA | PS2/Xb/360/Wii/PS3/PC/PSP | 24 |
| 5 | 1 | Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars | EA | PC | 3 |
| 6 | RE | Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 | Ubisoft | PC | 19 |
| 7 | 3 | Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 | Codemasters | PS2/360/PC | 4 |
| 8 | 7 | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories | Rockstar | PS2/PSP | 22 |
| 9 | 14 | Dr Kawashima's Brain Training | Nintendo | DS | 45 |
| 10 | RE | Prince of Pesia: The Sands of Time | Ubisoft | PC | 29 |
Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2007.
ELSPA Ltd
