PES 2010 is top seller in UK, Forza and FIFA close behind

by Griffin McElroy on Oct 26th 2009 9:41AM

Man, when is Europe going to get over this whole soccer thing? Not only do they love the real-life sport to an unhealthy degree, often leading to gang formation and general acts of hooliganism, but they also possess a collective, soul-crushing addiction for the game's many virtual representations. For instance, Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 debuted in the top sales spot for UK last week, bumping former first-place finisher FIFA 10 down to third place.

Nestled betwixt these two was Forza Motorsports 3, which admittedly has little to do with soccer. Fourth and fifth place went to Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games and WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010 respectively, which have even less to do with soccer -- though the appearance of a wrestling game in the top five gives us hope for the nation. Now there's a sport.

Source -- PES 2010 Scores All Formats No1 [Chart Track]
Source -- All formats chart [Chart Track]

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Tags: chart-track, fifa-10, forza-3, mario-and-sonic-at-the-olympic-winter-games, Microsoft, pes-2010, wwe-smackdown-vs-raw-2010, Xbox-360

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Funny, some people around here were saying that PES 2010 would bomb in sales just because in their opinion FIFA is better than this one. Regardless, people have to get the idea that in europe, PES is big, I mean, its pratically the only game that non-gamers who like football buy or at least download illegally for the pc.

This said, I gotta admit PES commercials are all over the place in my country. Even the main sports channel around here (which normally has videogames commercial) only has PES publicity and no FIFA around here to see.

But PES2010 is shit.
The only reason its No.1 - is that the numpties buy it.

PES is like playing in thick mud.

I'm so ashamed to be British at times. This is one of them.

eNrique Madden????????

Mate, to most Europeans you would have to explain what Madden is before they can tell you they didn't buy it because it isn't about SOCCER.

In fact, to most Europeans you would have to explain the difficult concept that there are other sports besides SOCCER. A fact that may cause their heads to explode so be careful! Many Europeans truthfully have no idea that any other football sports exist.

A game about Gridiron in the UK! Most ignore their own sports in their one eyed obsession with the worlds dullest form of football, SOCCER.

And you asked about.................what was it again?????

Is there a way to get rid of sports titles out of the charts? i mean they are games but not ones i care to see how they are selling. Sigh

We'll let you know when the Rosssas Weekly Charts get posted.

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Green Street Hooligans is such a good movie

.... its called GREEN STREET

Watch The Football Factory too. Much better.

Or this years 'The Firm'.

But, not all football is about hooliganism, but these jumped up films, prove to you yanks, thats all that football contains.

UNITED, UNITED

it gave me chills listening to that song when i watched the west ham vs arsenal game yesterday. love it.

Upton park sounded great when we came back from 2-0 down.

also to MrXile, in the states the movie is called Green Street Hooligans..... Its not his fault the name changed when they brought it over here

You may call it green street over there but we call it GSH over here. Ill check out that other movie too. Thanks

shit film with dodgy accents.watch football factory

if you keep calling us all yanks, we're gonna keeping calling it soccer

And the trolls/fanboys be all like;

"EA keep milking FIFA Hero. PES Band has a better tracklist and better gameplay."

"FIFA Hero: Van Der Sar was terrible, no wonder they gave it away free with FIFA Hero 5."

"I can't wait to export stuff from Lego PES Band."

"Kids should go out and learn a real sport."

"If EA keep pumping out football games so often, they'll kill the genre!"

errr Europe is not a nation.... and Africa also isn't a country like most people believe.

I'm surprised PES sold this much. i already have FIFA and looking forward to the release of PES in Canada, why games have to be released at different dates still confuses me.
By the time we in North America get to go online to play... the Europeans would have played to their hearts content hence being way better and harder to beat online if you get matched up with them.. thats been my experience in FIFA so far. I doubt PES would be different.

but in turn, having a harder competitor to play against makes you a better player in a shorter amount of time.

i thought about that online advantage but because you play people based on level, its actually better to start late. Starting late means that the better players have already leveled up so you just get to play the scrubs that are either starting late or are just plain bad....It helped a lot when i was on my way to my nice fifa record :)

wtf

SvR2010 in the Top 5!?!? WTF!?! and in the UK no less...most intersting

believe it or not there's a massive wwe following over here

Not as surprising as the NFL being as popular as it is over there.

But I've given up on the NFL. My team sucks.

megalolz.
PES is the game of choice here for sure. All my friends that that game go for that over Fifa it's true

"...though the appearance of a wrestling game in the top five gives us hope for the nation."

Uh, Europe? A nation? I must've missed the memo.

"For instance, Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 debuted in the top sales spot for UK..."

Oh, so we're talking about the UK here? I was unaware the UK was representative of the European continent as a whole. Sloppy writing, Joystiq.

I don't think it's their "sloppy" writing, but your sloppy reading skills. Griffin never called Europe a nation but merely asked, "When will Europe get over this soccer thing?" Stop nitpicking.

Well they sure as hell proved my speculations wrong.

Wonder if this is a shot-term thing, or if they're in it for the long haul.

When I see Elijah Wood, I can't help but see Spyro, the purple dragon. So the idea of Elijah Wood playing a hooligan sounds doubly ridiculous to me.

Not to suggest that violence is in any way correlated to manliness, but we've reached a nadir in manliness, it seems.

Really? I see a little hobbit...AND HE'S GOING TO ISENGARD!

Elijah Wood is Frodo first and foremost. Not bloody Spyro.

It's like saying Mark Hammill is the Joker. No, I'm sorry guys but Luke Skywalker first.

elijah wood has been in so many movies since lotr he is not frodo anymore. he's not like mark hamil where's he's only been in one thing.

I remember him from sin city more than anything.

Me never having never seen Lord of the Rings, Elijah Wood will always be:

1) Spyro, then;
2) Sandy from Flipper, then;
3) the guy who I sometimes mistake for Tobey Maguire.

When will Europeans get over football ? When you yanks stop caring so much about crappy baseball.

Please, don't start.

the UK is the werdest place in Europe. and im in Iceland and that says alot.

We are? Whats weird about us? :D

Is it because we...like.....BIG BUTTS AND WE CAN'T DENY

i feel ashamed for being downvoted.

i lived in Reikjavík (grafarvogur) most of my life but i now live in Akranes and have been there for over 3 years now.

I was a big PES fan, but since it went "HD", konami really fucked up what was near to perfection by last gen standards. Nowadays I’m a FIFA player, and those o really like football should be playing this excellent game too. Graphically is shit, but gameplay, animations and physics are astonishingly fantastic, it's everything you expect from a simulation.

PES10 sales success is kinda absurd because this game fails in so many departments, in my perspective the only reason for this game unexpected success is because the ones that bought FIFA day one are buying PES as well.

Bought FIFA, downloading PES...

I'm sorry for the crappy grammar, but I wrote my comment in a hurry, and English ain’t my native language. : )

Couldnt agree more!

I reckon it's more to do with the fact that people have become so attached to PES over the good years that they will buy the crap Konami keeps churning out these days out of their blind love for the name.

Like you I used to share that attachment for PES, but then FIFA 09 came out. At first it felt a bit dirty to be playing "the enemy" but PES is now so shit I would not play it if someone paid me.

I doubt anyone who bought FIFA would want to actually buy PES too.

I know I haven't bought it, and in response to Griffin, yeah when will you yanks actually stop promoting a sport that's for girls. I'd love to see your yankee football players go against the New Zealand rugby players, it would be like watching waves crash against a cliff lol

(btw) I'm not being spiteful, or trying to be a troll, I just find it funny how every continent except Europe find the love of footall/soccer so confusing (particularly North America).

@ramin

I'm speaking as an american that lived in NZ for a while...

The all blacks are great rugby team. they're very athletic. The haka is sick in person. but in rugby they tackle to tackle and stop the run nothing more.

in the NFL they are on steroids and huge. But when they tackle, they tackle to end careers.

you just don't see the same hits in rugby. sure they wear pads on their shoulders but it's really not that much. it's mostly to prevent dislocated shoulders and spine injuries.

infact, I think the eagles used to have an aussie on their team that used to play aussie rules football. But on the eagles he was the kicker...the smallest guy on the team.

@Ramin123: Not just Europe. Football is one of the dominant sports in every continent apart from Northern Europe. Actually, even that ignores Mexico.

I don't have a problem with the main US and Canadian sports - I have watched far too many US sports movies for that - but it always surprises me when they talk about it like some minority sport when the last world cup had a global audience of over 30 billion people according to the FIFA website.

There must still be a lot of fanboys left. PES used to destroy FIFA on the old consoles, but PES on current consoles is just REALLY bad. Its a joke, its had the same gameplay since PES4 while FIFA keeps making significant strides with each release.

Space is spot on about the size of NFL players vs rugby players (Both League and Union)

NFL players are HUGE. A quarter back is the size of Most Rugby forwards, around 105kg to 115kg (230lbs - 250lbs). He can be like that because NFL is almost a completely anaerobic sport. Short burst of intense power. Absolutely no staying power.

If NFL players didn't wear armour, it's armour guys not padding, there would be deaths on the field. It's not about toughness. It's smart for crying out load.

In short an NFL player would last 5 minutes in Rugby because he wouldn't be able to breathe and he may have a heart attack (they have to play for up to 80min with one 10min break). A rugby player might last in NFL if he wasn't broken in his first tackle.

no matter how much you whine, hardcore soccer fans will never stop playing the only good alternative we can get, which has always been PES.

Are you kidding? the US must be about the only country on the planet that don't understand the love for football/soccer. It's appreciated in Latin America, Asia and Africa just as much as in Europe (and maybe even more in LA).

Chalito said "Are you kidding? the US must be about the only country on the planet that don't understand the love for football/soccer."

Actually here's a list off the top of my head of countries for whom SOCCER is an afterthought.

Australia India (Over 1 Billion people only care about CRICKET)
Canada Pakistan
United States Sir Lanka
New Zealand Just about every south pacific nation

South Africa. Rugby and Cricket are still massively popular, although the all pervading parasite that is world SOCCER is making devastating inroads and soon the country may be lost to the disease.

haha! use of & fail.

Australia & India
Canada & Pakistan
United States & Sir Lanka
New Zealand & Just about every south pacific nation.

Maybe all of these UK buyers are Wii owners, where PES has been pretty much the best sports game on the system (and the best version of soccer on any system, really)... just sayin'.

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