EA score their first chart topper of the year on the Entertainment Software (All Prices) Top 40 as ‘Mass Effect 2’ is comfortably No1, debuting on Xbox 360 & PC.

Original ‘Mass Effect’ (highest chart position on this chart No12) was a staged release having debuted in week 47, 2007 on Xbox 360 (at No2 on the Xbox 360 Full Price Chart, held off by the 2nd week of Ubisoft’s ‘Assassin’s Creed’) and then in week 23, 2008 on PC (again No2, held off by a 3rd consecutive week for Eidos’ ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’).  Sales of ‘Mass Effect 2’ on Xbox 360 are almost double that achieved first time round and three times higher on PC.  Ubisoft’s Wii ‘Just Dance’ only drops to No2 and actually enjoys a sales increase of 16% over last week.  Activision take No3 with ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ (-3%) – 12 weeks and counting and it is yet to drop out of the Top 3.  Sony take the only other new entry this week at No4 with ‘MAG’, short for ‘Massive Action Game’ on PS3 – an online-only FPS from Zipper Interactive, best known for a long line of PS2 SOCOM: US Navy Seals games.

Elsewhere within the Entertainment Software Chart there is nothing new to report with the usual protagonists jostling for position within the rest of the Top 10.

LW		TW			Title	Format	Label	Publisher
-		1			MASS EFFECT 2	XB360	EA GAMES	ELECTRONIC ARTS
1		2			JUST DANCE	WII	UBISOFT	UBISOFT
-		3			MAG	PS3	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	SONY COMPUTER ENT.
3		4			WII SPORTS RESORT	WII	NINTENDO	NINTENDO
2		5			WII FIT PLUS	WII	NINTENDO	NINTENDO
4		6			CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2	XB360	ACTIVISION	ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
-		7			MASS EFFECT 2	PC	EA GAMES	ELECTRONIC ARTS
6		8			CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2	PS3	ACTIVISION	ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
7		9			NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII	WII	NINTENDO	NINTENDO
8		10			MARIO KART WII	WII	NINTENDO	NINTENDO
9		11			FORZA MOTORSPORT 3	XB360	MICROSOFT	MICROSOFT
5		12			ARMY OF TWO: THE 40TH DAY	XB360	EA GAMES	ELECTRONIC ARTS
12		13			FOOTBALL MANAGER 2010	PC	SEGA	SEGA
11		14			WII PLAY	WII	NINTENDO	NINTENDO
13		15			ASSASSIN'S CREED II	XB360	UBISOFT	UBISOFT
18		16			UNCHARTED 2: AMONG THIEVES	PS3	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	SONY COMPUTER ENT.
14		17			ASSASSIN'S CREED II	PS3	UBISOFT	UBISOFT
16		18			NEW SUPER MARIO BROS.	DS	NINTENDO	NINTENDO
21		19			FIFA 10	PS3	EA SPORTS	ELECTRONIC ARTS
19		20			FIFA 10	XB360	EA SPORTS	ELECTRONIC ARTS
10		21			ARMY OF TWO: THE 40TH DAY	PS3	EA GAMES	ELECTRONIC ARTS
20		22			GRAND THEFT AUTO EPISODES - LIBERTY CITY	XB360	ROCKSTAR	TAKE 2
17		23			MARIO & SONIC AT OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES	WII	SEGA	SEGA
27		24			LEGO BATMAN: THE VIDEOGAME	XB360	WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE	WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
23		25			JAMES CAMERON'S AVATAR: THE GAME	XB360	UBISOFT	UBISOFT
29		26			PURE	XB360	DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS	DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
25		27			BORDERLANDS	XB360	2K GAMES	TAKE 2
24		28			DR KAWASHIMA'S BRAIN TRAINING	DS	NINTENDO	NINTENDO
34		29			EA SPORTS ACTIVE	WII	EA SPORTS	ELECTRONIC ARTS
30		30			MARIO KART DS	DS	NINTENDO	NINTENDO
15		31			DARKSIDERS	XB360	THQ	THQ
40		32			GRAND THEFT AUTO IV	PS3	PLATINUM	TAKE 2
-		33			OPERATION FLASHPOINT: DRAGON RISING	XB360	CODEMASTERS	CODEMASTERS
-		34			JAMES CAMERON'S AVATAR: THE GAME	WII	UBISOFT	UBISOFT
33		35			PROFESSOR LAYTON AND PANDORA'S BOX	DS	NINTENDO	NINTENDO
26		36			DARKSIDERS	PS3	THQ	THQ
-		37			TATSUNOKO VS CAPCOM: ULTIMATE ALL-STARS	WII	CAPCOM	CAPCOM
-		38			PUZZLER WORLD	DS	GAMES FOR EVERYONE	UBISOFT
28		39			JAMES CAMERON'S AVATAR: THE GAME	PS3	UBISOFT	UBISOFT
37		40			MARIO & SONIC AT OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES	DS	SEGA	SEGA

http://www.chart-track.co.uk/?i=781&s=1111

2009:

51-52-53

2010:

1-2-3

Netherlands

#	VW	W	Titel	MIJ
1	1	9	NEW SUPER MARIO BROS (Wii)	NINTENDO
2	2	11	CALL OF DUTY/MODERN WARFARE 2 (PS3)	ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
3		1	MASS EFFECT 2 (XBOX 360)	ELECTRONIC ARTS
4	3	11	CALL OF DUTY/MODERN WARFARE 2 (XBOX 360)	ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
5	4	8	MARIO KART (Wii)	NINTENDO
6	6	11	CALL OF DUTY/MODERN WARFARE 2 (PC)	ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
7	5	14	MARIO & SONIC OP DE OLYMPISCHE WINTERSPELEN (Wii)	SEGA
8	RE	3	MARIO & SONIC OP DE OLYMPISCHE WINTER SPELEN (DS)	SEGA
9	9	27	WII SPORTS RESORT (Wii)	NINTENDO
10	10	2	FIFA 10 (PS3)	ELECTRONIC ARTS

Reserved

Black wii is back in the rest of EU, WSR should start increasing.

It seems that Mass Effect 2 sold well in its first week.
Forza 3 out of the top 10. but still #11 with three new games. Great!
Another good week for Just Dance!! 16% increase!

But it looks like ME2 on X360 will have poor first week in "others" - about 200k. The game probably won't hit 1m on X360 WW first week because of that.

Seeing JUST DANCE at the top of the charts each week makes me smile because it shows how little online journalism and aggregated review websites can matter.

Sales of ‘Mass Effect 2’ on Xbox 360 are almost double that achieved first time round and three times higher on PC

That doesnt sound too bad. The first one sold 120k in its first week. Anyway 900k first week is still awesome.

Uncharted 2 still rising :)

wow very good xbox 360 software sales, ME2 have very good start, Forza still there, Pure have good sales