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ELSPA Charts - PC - Charts Catchup

Wednesday 3rd of December, 2008 - 18:35:54 GMT

You can tell it’s a busy time of year for PC Gaming when there’s only one Sims title in the top ten and it’s grimly hanging on at 9 in the charts running up to last Saturday. That’s what happened.

In the chart following our last full PC update, Fallout was lost in the metro station as it was replaced at the top by Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 – again. The top two simply swapped places and with a reduction to £14.99 at Play.com we expect Red Alert 3 to stay high up in the charts at least until Christmas. There was one new entry at 9, Sacred 2 Fallen Angel and WoW Battlechest, helped by anticipation at Wrath of the Lich King, moved up to no.10. However every other game from 3 to 8 failed to move. At the bottom of the chart Bond held on with the Quantum of Solace game, jumping up by one place.

The following week, the chart up to exactly the middle of the month heralded a new broom of new entries with WoW Lich King at one, Football Manager 2009 at 2 and Cash on Delivery: World At War, at 3. The next new entry at 6 was the Lord of the Rings MMO, Mines of Moria. However the non-mover feat from the week before couldn’t be repeated and every other game in the chart lost places and Bond fell out of the Top 20 altogether. Cash on Delivery 4 fell to the top spot as the World War 2 replacement took over up at the top.

There was another round of musical chairs at the top in the 22 November chart but only among existing games: Football Fans sent Football Manager 2009 to the top, pushing the RPG gang down one place to WoW WOT Lich King. Valve and EA entered the chart with the Urban rather than sci-fi Zombie Shooter Left 4 Dead at, ironically, no.4. However the three games that make up the repeat of Christmas 2004 are now out and selling buckets to their respective markets, whether boxed or on Steam.

Embattled and newly Canadian Eidos launched Tomb Raider Underworld and it entered the chart at 8. The final new entries were Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir and NFS Undercover, appearing at 13 and 14 respectively. The reasonable chart position for the stable title helped renew takeover rumours, though nothing has been finalized.

Finally this week, Football Manager 2009 (hereafter known as FM 09) stayed at the top of the table and will probably do so, long after we’ve run out of puns. The place swapping was between CoD 5 and WoW Lich King, with the WWII shooter going up to 2 and the RPG dropping to 3. L4D, Red Alert 3, Fallout 3 and Spore became the non-movers at the end of the month, staying in their places from 3 to 7. Far Cry 2 climbed back into the Top 10 at 8, pushing Tomb Raider Underworld down to mid-table. FIFA has gone from the charts and PES 2009 is a non-mover at 18. Finally, Medieval Total War II’s complete edition re-entered the chart at the bottom.

- Ken

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