"2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa’ (-42%) hits a hat-trick of weeks at No1 despite strong competition from 3 new games making their debuts in the Top 5 this week.


Microsoft’s Xbox 360 title ‘Alan Wake’ enters at No2, only 1,000 sales behind FIFA. First announced back in 2005 and developed by Finnish Max Payne developer Remedy Entertainment, Alan Wake also tops the Xbox 360 chart almost 12,000 sales ahead of Capcom’s newcomer ‘Lost Planet 2’. Although released early (on Tuesday rather than Friday) and on both Xbox 360 and PS3, ‘Lost Planet 2’ has to settle for No3 in the All Formats Chart. Ubisoft’s ‘Just Dance’ falls to its lowest position for 7 weeks, slipping to No4 but maintaining its position as the week’s top selling Wii game despite a 19% drop in sales. EA have this week’s third new entry at No5 with ‘Skate 3’ and is the most represented publisher in the Top 10 thanks to a 5% rise in sales for ‘Battlefield: Bad Company 2’ at No6.

Xbox 360 and PS3 newcomers ‘Lost Planet 2’ and ‘Skate 3’ enjoy most success on Microsoft’s format with 66% of sales on Xbox 360 for ‘Lost Planet 2’ and 68% for ‘Skate 3’. ‘Modern Warfare 2’ (-14%) slips down from No3 to No7 after 3 weeks of promotion at retail. Final Fantasy XIII bounces back into the Top 10 after 8 weeks outside it, up from No14 to No8, boosted by price promotions which push sales up 90%. Nintendo’s regular big hitters ‘Wii Fit Plus’ and ‘Wii Sports Resort’ fall to No’s 9 and 10 respectively. Neither title has been out of the All Formats Top 10 since they were launched in July (Wii Sports Resort) and November (Wii Fit Plus) last year. There are a large number of re-entries this week thanks to strong price promotions at retail, notably ‘Call of Duty: World at War’ back at No15, ‘Nier’ at No23, ‘Lips: I Love the 80s’ at No25, ‘Bioshock 2’ at No30, ‘Bayonetta’ at No31 and ‘Napoleon: Total War’ at No35. "

Alan Wake>Combined Lost Planet 2

Alan Wake=Lost Planet 2 360 + 12.000 units (ergo Lost Planet 2 PS3 is 11.999 at best or both would be more than Alan Wake)

Lost Planet 2 PS3 is one third of the total LP2 sales

so 12.000x3=36.000, which is the maximum possible amount Alan Wake could have sold.

Maybe it's wrong.

http://www.chart-track.co.uk/?i=856&s=1111

Maybe MS know the game won't sell millions like Halo or COD so they not going to advertise it as much. MS will advertise shooters more cause they sell the most on 360. That's what I think it could be.

Im dissapointed, I told some guys to get Alan Wake and they were clueless on what it was!!!!
Unfortunately Ms is just to fixated on time-elxcusives rather than real ones

They have to compete with the likes of Rockstar running Red Dead ads all day.

I saw a 1 minute ad for it at the Cinemas here in Sweden when I was going to see the new Robin Hood movie.

Even a stupid commercial as that would sell more copies!!

Personally I'm expecting ads during Lost tonight as well as during the finale on Sunday. Expensive for sure, but also smart as the game could appeal to a large section of the Lost audience.

what a coincidence. I JUST saw a TV ad for it. It played on Korea's video game channel, the e-sports network during the show "양민이 뿔났다" or " Civilians dead upset" or "three guys in traditional korean outfits shout a lot and make jokes I can't understand" show.

Based on that commercial placement, it should go far.