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Massive FIFA 13 raises curtain on Q4

01/Oct/2012

It’s time for the market to explode, as EA’s ‘FIFA 13' debuts at No 1.


It joins the select club of titles that have sold more than 1m units in their opening week, the others being Call of Duty series Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 & 3. ‘FIFA 13’ outsold previous best ‘FIFA 12’ by +27% in units and +31% by revenue (based on opening week sales). Week 39 total market units climb 196% over the previous week (+282% by revenue) to become by far the biggest week of the year so far and the curtain-raiser for the much hoped for Q4 revival.

‘FIFA 13’ accounted for an astonishing 71% of all units and 80% of all entertainment software revenue this week (up from 62%/72% for FIFA 12 last year), revealing an even greater polarisation of sales towards triple A product. Finally, in a comparison between week 39-12 vs. week 39-11, this week is up 11% in units and 18% in revenue. Last week’s No1 ‘Borderlands 2’ drops to No2 (-60%) and Codemasters also drop one place to No3 with ‘F1 2012’ (-38%).

But it’s not just a FIFA festival this week as Activision Blizzard’s ‘World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria’ debuts at No4, a mid-week release from Tuesday 25th September. Also debuting this week is Ubisoft’s innovative ‘Rocksmith’ at No7, Tecmo Koei’s ‘Dead or Alive 5’ at No11, Rovio/Activision’s ‘Angry Birds Trilogy’ at No16 and Sony’s ‘Gran Turismo 5 Academy Edition’ at No17. In the console hardware world Sony’s PS3 ‘Super Slim’ 500GB debuts this week and immediately sees PS3 hardware sales rocket 138% over last week – the 500GB variant accounted for 37% of all PS3’s sold.

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  TW     Title Format Label Publisher
- 1     FIFA 13 XB360 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
- 2     FIFA 13 PS3 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
1 3     BORDERLANDS 2 XB360 2K GAMES TAKE 2
- 4     WORLD OF WARCRAFT: MISTS OF PANDARIA PC BLIZZARD ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
2 5     BORDERLANDS 2 PS3 2K GAMES TAKE 2
3 6     F1 2012 XB360 CODEMASTERS CODEMASTERS
4 7     F1 2012 PS3 CODEMASTERS CODEMASTERS
5 8     PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2013 PS3 KONAMI KONAMI
7 9     SLEEPING DOGS XB360 SQUARE ENIX SQUARE ENIX EUROPE
- 10     ROCKSMITH XB360 UBISOFT UBISOFT
- 11     FIFA 13 WII EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
11 12     NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 3DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
22 13     THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM XB360 BETHESDA SOFTWORKS BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
21 14     FORZA MOTORSPORT 4 XB360 MICROSOFT MICROSOFT
9 15     SLEEPING DOGS PS3 SQUARE ENIX SQUARE ENIX EUROPE
10 16     LITTLEBIGPLANET PS VITA VITA SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.
8 17     PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2013 XB360 KONAMI KONAMI
- 18     FIFA 13 VITA EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
- 19     ROCKSMITH PS3 UBISOFT UBISOFT
- 20     GRAN TURISMO 5 ACADEMY EDITION PS3 SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.
12 21     GUILD WARS 2 PC NCSOFT EUROPE NCSOFT EUROPE
- 22     DEAD OR ALIVE 5 XB360 TECMO TECMO KOEI EUROPE
- 23     FIFA 13 PC EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
16 24     DEAD ISLAND GOTY EDITION XB360 DEEP SILVER KOCH MEDIA
25 25     SUPER MARIO 3D LAND 3DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
- 26     DEAD OR ALIVE 5 PS3 TECMO TECMO KOEI EUROPE
6 27     BORDERLANDS 2 PC 2K GAMES TAKE 2
14 28     THE SIMS 3: SUPERNATURAL PC EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
15 29     LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES XB360 WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
20 30     MAX PAYNE 3 XB360 ROCKSTAR TAKE 2
17 31     LONDON 2012: THE OFFICIAL VIDEO GAME XB360 SEGA SEGA
29 32     MARIO KART 7 3DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
- 33     ANGRY BIRDS TRILOGY XB360 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
24 34     MARIO & SONIC LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES WII SEGA SEGA
13 35     TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 PS3 NAMCO BANDAI GAMES NAMCO BANDAI GAMES
19 36     MAX PAYNE 3 PS3 ROCKSTAR TAKE 2
28 37     MOSHI MONSTERS: MOSHLING ZOO DS MIND CANDY MIND CANDY
- 38     DARKSIDERS II XB360 THQ THQ
- 39     FIFA 13 PS2 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
- 40     UNCHARTED 3: DRAKE'S DECEPTION GOTY PS3 SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.