FIFA 10 debuts with record UK sales lead, Layton maintains second

by Alexander Sliwinski { Oct 5th 2009 at 9:25AM }

FIFA 10 -- the Madden of Europa -- had the most successful "all formats" launch since Grand Theft Auto IV in the UK, according to Chart Track. First week sales of the footie fiesta grew by nearly 48 percent over its predecessor's opening week a year ago. This was the highest-selling launch of a FIFA game ever, with the Xbox 360 generating 48 percent of sales, PS3 46 percent, and the remaining formats making up six percent.

Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (the Diabolical Box in the States) held onto the number two spot from the week prior, while Halo 3: ODST sales dropped 75 percent to the third spot, after holding last week's crown.

Source -- FIFA 10 scores BIG (Chart Track)
Source -- All formats chart (Chart Track)

Tags: britain, chart-track, fifa-10, halo-3-odst, professor-layton, professor-layton-and-the-diabolical-box, sales, uk

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taurus82 (HD ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, Please) @ Oct 5th 2009 9:29AM

BAAAAA??

captainprotonx @ Oct 5th 2009 9:39AM

Yeah, baaaaaaaa...

GewurztraminerX @ Oct 5th 2009 10:06AM

Bleats me.

Another post involving FIFA = another day Joystiq's sheep joke goes over my head.

Fernando Rocker @ Oct 5th 2009 9:30AM

I heart me some football.

Peter Moore - peterfuckingmoore.blogspot.com @ Oct 5th 2009 9:31AM

I heart me some money.

Peter Moore - peterfuckingmoore.blogspot.com @ Oct 5th 2009 9:30AM

Jerk Face @ Oct 5th 2009 9:54AM

LOL @ Your fucking website. Jesus.

Solace @ Oct 5th 2009 11:38AM

that new blog post was pretty damn funny though

Mr Khan @ Oct 5th 2009 9:41AM

Still so heavily unbalanced in PS360's favor, despite the fact that Wii is otherwise doing quite well in Britain.

Madden of Europa indeed. With all the same sell-through features.

Jesus (PSN: Luttdawg) @ Oct 5th 2009 10:20AM

No suprise there really. The game is designed around the ps/360 controllers. The wii versions of fifa are always awful two-bit afterthoughts. Fifa isn't the best looking game on the 360 or ps3 but it looks a fuck load worse on Wii.

Bad visuals + dumb downed Fifa = poor sales for Wii.

Ashitaka @ Oct 5th 2009 4:45PM

Basically, the only reason for buying FIFA for the Wii is if you only have the Wii.

Uncontrol @ Oct 5th 2009 9:41AM

Holy crap, Professor Layton beat ODST?

Hydrophobicfish (PSN: HydrophobicFish) @ Oct 5th 2009 10:29AM

Not surprising, Europe is a completely different market than America. They don't need to inject testosterone into their veins every 20 seconds via playing Halo/Gears.

We, however, do. WARGARBL WHERE'S GEARS OF WAR 3!?

Jerk Face @ Oct 5th 2009 11:12AM

But these are the UK sales numbers, not all of Europe. UK's market is arguably pretty similar to the US, actually.

xtremeholymuffin @ Oct 5th 2009 11:12AM

wow, stfu

Discotheque @ Oct 5th 2009 11:41AM

Nice one troll. I hope you also believe Uncharted 2 fits into that genre aswell. Otherwise you're just a hypocrite (I'm leaning towards the latter for you).

Lunastra78 (PSN: lunastra78) @ Oct 5th 2009 9:45AM

Kinda surprising that Sigma 2 isn't higher up on the list. Or perhaps it's because it was released just before list was released?

Jerk Face @ Oct 5th 2009 9:53AM

I just beat Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box this weekend. So damned good!

I also beat ODST this weekend. Spoiler alert: While the game is great, the ending is more like a 'meh'nding.

Also, Brits love football.

YoshimiMac @ Oct 6th 2009 3:14AM

Obviously a popular game, but the increase in sales from last year could be put down to some supermarket chains selling the game for £25 for the first weekend / week.

bigphil2003 @ Oct 5th 2009 10:14AM

Only reason it sold so well is because Tesco and Asda were selling it at £25 over the weekend

Kyle @ Oct 5th 2009 2:30PM

Not really. Supermarkets barely get any stock and sell out very fast, they just sell it that price (and at a loss, I might add) to get people into the stores. Dedicated game retailers have been selling barely anything but Fifa for the whole weekend, so I'd assume most of the sales are from those.

Archon (PSN: Archonik, XBL: DarkARHN) @ Oct 5th 2009 10:15AM

Wow! PS3 sales pretty much = XB360 sales?! Wow! First Batman, now this. Do you think PS3 can overtake X in the long run?

Tom Kalinske, CEO. @ Oct 5th 2009 10:18AM

Probably, mainly because the 360 will have been discontinued long before the PS3. I don't see Microsoft implementing a 10 year life cycle for it.

JoeTheBlow @ Oct 5th 2009 3:54PM

Long run?
More like, after christmas.

Slim is da new hotness, the momentum behind the PS3 (seemingly *still* building as word of mouth spreads) now must be scaring the living shit outta Microsoft.

butaneko @ Oct 5th 2009 10:16AM

Wah I don't wanna wait another two weeks!

They have to rub it in my face by advertising during every premier league game as well. I did enjoy the quote they put up on the ad boards though. "FIFA 10... The beautiful game" - The Sun

Most generic quote ever! I like to imagine the original quote as "FIFA 10 takes a big shit on the beautiful game"

breaklaw @ Oct 5th 2009 10:25AM

So is FIFA officially better than Pro Evo now? Not sales-wise quality-wise.

Jack @ Oct 5th 2009 10:38AM

Yes it's the better game by far quality wise and it shows even more than it did 5 years ago in terms of sales vs the competitor they know have an extra 33% market share in Europe than they did only 3 years ago.

Nigeria: Charmy Bee DF @ Oct 5th 2009 10:42AM

I'd say the PS2/Wii versions of Pro Evo stil trump HD Fifa. But if we were to compare the 360 versions of Fifa 10 and the latest Pro Evo, then Fifa wins by a country mile.

But EA still have a long way to go to match Pro Evolution Four - the one with Henry and Totti on the front cover.

Eh @ Oct 5th 2009 11:57AM

Its been undeniably better since FIFA 08 and arguably better since FIFA 07. Where have you been? Its always been then best game on todays consoles.

They havent made a PES with a built from scratch engine made for current consoles, they are still dragging along with most of the PS2 engine. Its painful watching the videos for PES 2010, the gameplay is identical to the old PS2 games with almost no physics anywhere.

Konami needs to take a 2 year break and focus on making a new game engine, they are killing the series with this PS2 crap.

Kyle @ Oct 5th 2009 2:32PM

My boss has played both (Pro Evo at a managers conference) and he said that "Fifa pisses all over Pro Evo this year", and he's usually a Pro Evo fan.

kal3003 @ Oct 5th 2009 10:59AM

baaaaaaaaa

DinnyHoon @ Oct 5th 2009 12:28PM

I'd imagine this is due to how surprisingly good last year's FIFA was compared to Pro Evo 2009.

PSN ID -- TheUnforgivenII @ Oct 5th 2009 3:37PM

This game deserves every sterling you spend into.

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