Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics’ reboot of ‘Tomb Raider’ (360/PS3/PC) sees the title debuting at No1 as the biggest launch of the year so far, comfortably outselling previous best this year ‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’ by more than double the week 1 sell-through (in week 7, 2013). ‘Tomb Raider’ week 1 All Format sales set a new record for the franchise, with the previous best actually set by Crystal Dynamics’ first game in this series, ‘Tomb Raider: Legend’ from 2006 with around half the sales shown here. This is the 10th Tomb Raider game in the series (original Tomb Raider launched in 1996, week 43 on Sega’s Saturn, week 47 on Sony’s PS1) and is the first version to launch as an ‘Event’ title (Tuesday 5th March, 2013). Both the 360 and PS3 versions of ‘Tomb Raider’ set new week 1 records as the fastest selling individual formats of any Tomb Raider release so far, a record previously held by ‘Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness’ on PS2 way back in week 27, 2003. Debuting strongly at No2 is EA’s ‘SimCity’ for PC, the sixth game in the series which dates back to 1989 and which was last seen as a new release back in week 46, 2007 with the fifth instalment, ‘Sim City Societies’. Namco Bandai debut at No3 with 360/PS3 ‘Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3’ and EA bring up the last of the new entries at No4 with ‘The Sims 3: University Life’, the ninth expansion pack for ‘The Sims 3’. EA’s ‘FIFA 13’ drops 3 places to No5 (-32%) and last week’s No1, EA’s ‘Crysis 3’ is forced down to No6 (-55%).

Top 40 Entertainment Software (All Prices), Week Ending 8 March 2013

TOMB RAIDER - SQUARE ENIX EUROPE

SIMCITY - ELECTRONIC ARTS 

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: ULTIMATE NINJA STORM 3 - NAMCO BANDAI GAMES 

THE SIMS 3: UNIVERSITY LIFE - ELECTRONIC ARTS

FIFA 13 - ELECTRONIC ARTS

CRYSIS 3 - ELECTRONIC ARTS

CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS II - ACTIVISION BLIZZARD

FAR CRY 3 - UBISOFT

METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE - KONAMI 

THE ELDER SCROLLS V – UBISOFT

ASSASSIN’S CREED III - UBISOFT

NEED FOR SPEED MOST WANTED - ELECTRONIC ARTS

SKYLANDERS GIANTS - ACTIVISION BLIZZARD

HITMAN ABSOLUTION - SQUARE ENIX EUROPE

ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES - SEGA

LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES - WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE

HALO 4 - MICROSOFT

GRAND THEFT AUTO IV - TAKE 2

DEAD SPACE 3 - ELECTRONIC ARTS

FORZA HORIZON - MICROSOFT

LEGO THE LORD OF THE RINGS - WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE

GRAND THEFT AUTO EPISODES - LIBERTY CITY - TAKE 2

JUST DANCE 4 - UBISOFT

SONIC & ALL STARS RACING TRANSFORMED - SEGA

FORZA MOTORSPORT 4 - MICROSOFT

RED DEAD REDEMPTION: GOTY - TAKE 2

MARIO & SONIC LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES - SEGA

NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 - NINTENDO

FOOTBALL MANAGER 2013 - SEGA

DISHONORED - BETHESDA SOFTWORKS

SLEEPING DOGS - SQUARE ENIX EUROPE

DISNEY EPIC MICKEY 2: THE POWER OF TWO - DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS

HITMAN: HD TRILOGY - SQUARE ENIX EUROPE

WWE '13 - THQ

THE SIMS 3 - ELECTRONIC ARTS

DEAD ISLAND GOTY EDITION - KOCH MEDIA

PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2013 - KONAMI

MEDAL OF HONOR: WARFIGHTER - ELECTRONIC ARTS

THE SIMS 3: PETS - ELECTRONIC ARTS

GRAN TURISMO 5 ACADEMY EDITION - SONY COMPUTER ENT.

it's a good game, it deserves good sales

Girl power!

It is a great game actually. I played it by my friend's house and I was thoroughly impressed. Well ... with the campaign at least. Mp .... meh.

So Aliens sold 85k FW in the UK. This means Tomb Raider sold >190k? Wow, impressive. 1 million WW FW possible?

Here ya go. Topped 1 million in the first 2 days.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/08/crystal-dynamics-1-million-playing-tomb-raider-two-days-after/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fjoystiq+%28Joystiq%29

Ok, but this is shipped, right? I mean 1 million here on VGC

Also, the game was already sold to costumers on the previous week to launch. I got the game the Friday before release, so two days after release means 1 week really Expect to have a huge drop on the official week 2.

It's still selling better than expected and I hope it gets nice legs, because it's truly a great game.

Chatz please.

Gret Tomb Raider sales BTW.

gta IV woah! and skyrim in front of asscreed 3, that are some awesome legs.

Want those top 2 so bad

GT5 holding in the chatz even selling over 1 million in UK.