2009's UK Top 10 Games
The games industry had a stellar 2008, with both games and consoles sales booming. With less new consoles sold in 2009, fewer games were bought, too. But there was one massive success story: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
In its first week on sale, gamers spent £67.m on this single title - more than the combined value of the music and movie markets during those 7 days. It even eclipsed the traditional market-leader from the FIFA franchise, and became the biggest-selling home entertainment title of the year.
1) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 2.9m copies sold
2) FIFA 10 - 2.2m
3) Wii Sports Resort - 1.5m
4) Wii FIT - 1.2m
5) Wii FIT PLUS - 968K
6) Assassin's Creed II - 920K
7) Mario Kart Wii - 918K
8) Mario & Sonic at Olympic Winter Games - 825K
9) Call of Duty: World at War - 770K
10) FIFA 09 - 713K
The popularity of its Wii console and DS handheld saw Nintendo continue to be the market-leader, with software for its platforms outselling those for Sony and Microsoft platforms combined.
Other notable trends include a 13% rise in X-Box software sales and a massive decline - almost 25% - in PC games sold.
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