DUTY CALLS IN RUN UP TO CHRISTMAS

14/Dec/2015

This is the week 50 chart, but thanks to the Gregorian calendar this year is also a 53 week year (last occurred in 2009).

Consequently, the last published chart before Christmas will be next week and that is the definition for the Christmas Chart (week 51, ending Saturday 19th December). Jockeying for position and next week’s Christmas No1 is looking like a 3 horse race. Activision’s ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops III’ climbs one place to No1 (-37%) – last year Activision held off EA’s ‘FIFA 15’ as ‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’ was the 2014 Xmas No1. At No2 this week is EA’s ‘Star Wars Battlefront’, up from No3 (-22%) – this title could benefit from Star Wars 7 movie mania, released in just a few days. EA also have ‘FIFA 16’ which drops 2 places to No3 this week (-49%) but ‘FIFA’ games currently hold the record in terms of Xmas No1’s with 8 so far. Records for traditional entertainment software Xmas No1’s actually date back 32 years to 1984 and although the charts back then were very different it was in fact Activision’s ‘Ghostbusters’ on Spectrum and Commodore machines that claimed the first ever Xmas No1 (week 51, 1984). Bethesda drop one place to No4 with ‘Fallout 4’ (-21%) and Telltale Games’ ‘Minecraft: Story Mode’ climbs 2 places to No5 (-3%). Last week’s 2 big new releases drop places, with Square Enix’s ‘Just Cause 3’ down 2 to No6 (-43%) and Ubisoft’s ‘Tom Clancy Rainbow 6: Siege’ down 3 places to No9 (-58%). The lone new entry this week is EA’s ‘The Sims 4: Get Together’ debuting at No38.

Go battlefront!

No 3DS or Vita game on the list. Did the UK have no special discount on handhelds this holydays, or people there just prefere consoles that much?

No XCX.I know Uk is the worst market for Nintendo, but good god, dont the UK have no good tastes???(Im joking of course)

I think consoles are prefered, hell the X1 and PS4 are going to surpass the 3DS in a few months.

I loved Ghostbusters on the Commodore 64!

Highest charting Nintendo game is on Wii, which is a feckin' travesty esp given it's Just Dance 2016!

So even though SWBF is ahead on PS4 and Xb one CoD wins the week. I guess that's because CoD is on PS360 as well and even though BOIII is only 36 on 360 and doesn't chart on PS3 that's enough to make up the difference.

Even though I reject Battlefront personally because it has no campaign, I think I would rather see SWBF as the Xmas #1 rather than the usual suspects of either FIFA or CoD. But the 7th gen might put one of those annual release games over the top of SWBF.

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WEEK 6

Call of Duty Black Ops III VS Call of Duty Advanced Warfare VS Call of Duty Ghost


Black Ops III
[WEEK 1] 635,000 / NEW
[WEEK 2] 273,050 / 908,050
[WEEK 3] 136,525 / 1,044,575
[WEEK 4] 200,691 / 1,245,266
[WEEK 5] 132,456 / 1,377,722
[WEEK 6] 83,447 / 1,461,169


Advanced Warfare
[WEEK 1] 730,000 / NEW
[WEEK 2] 167,900 / 897,900
[WEEK 3] 99,061 / 996,961
[WEEK 4] 222,887 / 1,219,848
[WEEK 5] 147,105 / 1,366,953
[WEEK 6] 107,386 / 1,474,339


Call of Duty: Ghost
[WEEK 1] 690,000 / NEW
[WEEK 2] 165,600 / 855,600
[WEEK 3] 139,104 / 994,704
[WEEK 4] 185,008 / 1,179,712
[WEEK 5] 186,858 / 1,366,568
[WEEK 6] 147,617 / 1,514,187

Wow i thought the black ops side series was bigger than that.

AW Nov 4-Dec 10

Ghost Nov 5-Dec 11

BO3 Nov 6-Dec 12

It seems 5-12 is rather poor for sales, but 3-10 and 4-11 is nice.

But it is easily explained by Cyber Monday.  BO3 week 6 is 5 days after Cyber Monday, Ghosts and AW Week 6 is 2 days after Cyber Monday.

The next few weeks will be interesting.