CoD: World at War tops UK charts for fifth week

"Dead Space is less than 500,000 across 3 consoles"

Is this one of those weird things where we count the PC as a console, because I think you may be a bit confused.

I think game companies have been looking for the casual market for years, and now that they've done it, the hardcore market is suffering.

That doesn't explain why the 'hardcore' market is ignoring all the games made for them that don't involve military people blowing shit up.

Well maybe the new "hardcore" is casual hardcore. Call of Duty and Halo are pretty socially acceptable and easy to pick up and play, whereas Dead Space, Mirror's Edge, and LBP will get you funny looks. Now that Activision is releasing sequels on a yearly (or sub-yearly) basis, fps and guitar games are the new sports games maybe?

slightly outdated data, perhaps? LBP broke a million, last i heard. As did Wii Music. Dead Space is at a million if you compile everything, but around 500k for the two consoles (i couldn't find PC data)

Only VG Chartz thinks LBP is over a million. I still think it'll get there eventually, but not yet. It's probably around 750,000 worldwide.
As for Dead Space, there's no WAY it's at a million copies. Last I read about a week ago, it was

Don't blame me, I voted for Kang.

CHILDREN, WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED TODAY??

The general public would rather spend money on another Fps game then something else.

CAUSE PLAYING THEM SHOOTAN GAEMS MEANS I'M HARDCORE!!! FUCK THEM CASUAL GAMES!!!!

@Turkey

I really want to beat you senseless for your stupidity. Like I said in the previous thread where we were wondering why certain games were doing poorly:

CASUAL GAMING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!! This is another example of the public buying something from a familiar franchise. Is it any surprise that CoD:WaW did well, considering the fact that it's associated with CoD: Modern Combat? This is not anything new, and there is no new "casual hardcore" (and I'm really getting tired of people labeling anything and everything casual. Stop it. It makes you look stupid). There has always been three groups of gamers: Casual, mainstream, and hardcore. This happens every year, the mainstream goes for the franchises they are familiar with (like Halo, Gears of War, and GTA). They don't give a shit about games we hype about here, they only care about games that are the most popular these days. And those are the titles they buy.

I think it's more than familiar franchises. I buy a lot of games, but I know for me and a group of my Xbox Live buddies, we never have a problem dropping $60 on games that have good multiplayer that will hold us there for months on end....like Call of Duty.

It's difficult to purchase a game for $60 that I may play for 2 days complete and never play again. I live in NYC and gamestop out here gives only $15 for trade-ins no matter how new the game is.
I occasionally purchase single player games if it is something that I must play day one. Most of the time...and this goes for the group of people on my friends list, we wait till they are discounted to get them or use game fly.

If it makes you feel any better Samfish, I just bought Valkyria Chronicles and am thoroughly enjoying it.

KingofGods has a point, a lot of it has to do with the legs a game has.

Whenever I make a game purchase, I always try to factor in how long I think my gameplay will last, or how compelling a single playthrough will be.

VC and LBP met my criteria. Dead Space (and Mirror's Edge) did not, and I'm sure thats true for a lot of people. I'm sure a lot of people will play/played the games by renting them or waiting for them to get discounted, but as it was said above, spending $60 on a game that will be over in about two days is kind of streatch.

I like that EA produced two great new franchises but its hard to actually justify buying those games at full price.

@ Vegeta:

It's called IDLE SPECULATION. If I want to meditate on the reasons for some excellent games underperforming I had damned well better be able to do it on a videogame comment board without fucking douchebags saying they want to kick my ass. What the fuck is your problem?

The proper, official link:
http://www.charttrack.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/archive/index_test.jsp&ct=110032&arch=t&lyr=2008&year=2008&week=50

I have no idea where that MCV list is coming from, and it looks little different than their previous weeks.
Maybe i'm missing something here.

http://www.charttrack.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110015

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You DO realise British people don't talk like that? Well the vast majority don't.

Of course they, do. I live down here in Texas, and this is an actual transcript from my gaming session last night:

xFenixKnightx: Yeehaw! I got me this here Hammer of Dawn, and them varmints are runnin' away faster than an armadiller ridin' shotgun in a Tahoe!

copa: You tell 'em, pardner! Seeing you do the roadie run like that makes me want to lasso you and mount ya like a filly!

xFenixKnightx: Now, it's time to haul these critters down to the OK corr... wait, what?

Copa...you win for the day, Sir. +1

:O LMAO!!!

Pip, pip, hooray! Huzzah and all that!

Agree. The running stages captured the excellence of Secret Rings, but with somewhat better level design. The werehog stages were very simple as brawlers, but were effective in their simplicity

The funniest thing is, even my friend who hates Sonic and has never liked a Sonic game before in his life likes Sonic Unleashed, even the Werehog levels, and actually borrowed and played it quite a bit. It just seems to have become cool for reviewers to rip on Sonic, even if gamers don't actually agree...

Your avatar is just a black box btw.

I still think that COD4 is a better overall experience, but I agree that its not copy and pasted. Haven't gotten to zombie mode yet, Im still in the campaign and am stuck with a brand new puppy that wont let me play video games.

Agreed.
Nazi Zombie mode is genius!
SO much fun, me and my mate could play it all day.
And I'm yet to join up with 4 mates co-op over XBL, that would be fun.
Either way, CoD:W@W is great.