Crime Pays for LA Noire at No1 for 3rd Week
06/Jun/2011 Rockstar/Take 2’s ‘L.A. Noire’ (-56%) takes a third consecutive week at No1 and will make the Developer/Publisher combo (plus Team Bondi in Australia) very proud to be No1 again as the videogame industry arrives for E3 this week. Disney’s ‘Lego Pirates of the Caribbean’ (-9%) climbs back up one place to No2, passing Codemasters’ big new entry from last week, ‘Dirt 3’ (-49%) down one place to No3. 505 Games’ ‘Zumba Fitness’ (+14%) is turning out to have a lot of stamina, No4 for a third week in a row and never out of the Top 4 since the launch of the Wii version back in week 13 this year. Bethesda’s FPS ‘Brink’ from UK developer Splash Damage (+8%) takes a 2nd week at No5 and has dropped no lower in the 4 weeks on chart. Nintendo’s ‘Wii Sports Resort’ remains at No6 (+8%) with continued activity on the Wii hardware bundles – the Wii has been the top-selling piece of hardware for the past 2 weeks thanks to the Black Wii+Sports Resort and the launch 3 weeks ago of the new Wii White Mario Kart Pack.
The biggest new entry this week is EA’s ‘The Sims 3: Generations’ for PC, the fourth expansion pack for this product. The others, including year/week of release, were ‘World Adventures’ (2009 week 47), ‘Ambitions’ (2010 week 22) and ‘Late Night’ (2010 week 43). The only other new entry this week is Bethesda’s RPG action adventure ‘Hunted: The Demon’s Forge’ at No14 from independent developer Inxile based in the USA.
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Title
Format
Label
Publisher
1
1
L.A. NOIRE
XB360
ROCKSTAR
TAKE 2
2
2
L.A. NOIRE
PS3
ROCKSTAR
TAKE 2
4
3
ZUMBA FITNESS
WII
505 GAMES
505 GAMES
3
4
DIRT 3
XB360
CODEMASTERS
CODEMASTERS
6
5
WII SPORTS RESORT
WII
NINTENDO
NINTENDO
-
6
THE SIMS 3: GENERATIONS
PC
EA GAMES
ELECTRONIC ARTS
8
7
BRINK
XB360
BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
5
8
DIRT 3
PS3
CODEMASTERS
CODEMASTERS
12
9
FIFA 11
XB360
EA SPORTS
ELECTRONIC ARTS
13
10
CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS
XB360
ACTIVISION
ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
9
11
MARIO KART WII
WII
NINTENDO
NINTENDO
16
12
ART ACADEMY
DS
NINTENDO
NINTENDO
7
13
LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
XB360
DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
10
14
LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
WII
DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
11
15
JUST DANCE 2
WII
UBISOFT
UBISOFT
18
16
BRINK
PS3
BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
15
17
WII FIT PLUS
WII
NINTENDO
NINTENDO
17
18
LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
DS
DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
23
19
WII PARTY
WII
NINTENDO
NINTENDO
20
20
PORTAL 2
XB360
EA GAMES
ELECTRONIC ARTS
14
21
LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
PS3
DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
27
22
KILLZONE 3
PS3
SONY COMPUTER ENT.
SONY COMPUTER ENT.
-
23
HUNTED: THE DEMON'S FORGE
XB360
BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
40
24
CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS
PS3
ACTIVISION
ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
24
25
KINECT SPORTS
XB360
MICROSOFT
MICROSOFT
33
26
PORTAL 2
PS3
EA GAMES
ELECTRONIC ARTS
29
27
ZUMBA FITNESS
XB360
505 GAMES
505 GAMES
22
28
POKEMON BLACK VERSION
DS
NINTENDO
NINTENDO
31
29
POKEMON WHITE VERSION
DS
NINTENDO
NINTENDO
30
30
SNIPER: GHOST WARRIOR
PS3
CITY INTERACTIVE
CITY INTERACTIVE
39
31
RED DEAD REDEMPTION
PS3
ROCKSTAR
TAKE 2
-
32
LITTLEBIGPLANET 2
PS3
SONY COMPUTER ENT.
SONY COMPUTER ENT.
26
33
DONKEY KONG COUNTRY RETURNS
WII
NINTENDO
NINTENDO
-
34
SHOGUN 2: TOTAL WAR
PC
SEGA
SEGA
-
35
PILOTWINGS RESORT
3DS
NINTENDO
NINTENDO
-
36
VIRTUA TENNIS 4
PS3
SEGA
SEGA
35
37
FIFA 11
PS3
EA SPORTS
ELECTRONIC ARTS
36
38
FOOTBALL MANAGER 2011
PC
SEGA
SEGA
19
39
CRYSIS 2
XB360
EA GAMES
ELECTRONIC ARTS
32
40
RED DEAD REDEMPTION
XB360
ROCKSTAR
TAKE 2
