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Red Dead Redemption holds Mario from top spot on UK charts

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jun 14th 2010 11:00PM

Red Dead Redemption sales may have dropped 34 percent in the UK last week, but the Western beat Super Mario Galaxy 2 on the charts and continues riding high for a fourth week in a row. Meanwhile, with focus turning to the real World Cup, 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa slipped on the field to the third spot.

Now for a little bit of weirdness: Rooms: The Main Building surged the charts from 12 to the fourth spot. Oh yeah, and Just Dance is still cha-cha-ing along at fifth. Check out the UK top ten after the break.

Top 10 UK Software Sales (All Formats); week ending June 12:

Red Dead Redemption
Super Mario Galaxy
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
Rooms: The Main Building
Just Dance
Wii Fit Plus
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
The Sims 3: Ambitions
Wii Sports Resort
Blur

Source: Red Dead holds up Mario [Chart Track], Latest All Formats chart [Chart Track]

Tags: 2010-fifa-world-cup-south-africa, britain, chart-track, just-dance, microsoft, nintendo, playstation, ps3, red-dead-redemption, rooms-the-main-building, super-mario-galaxy-2, uk, wii, xbox

Reader Comments (32)

YAY!!!
Just Dance Rulez!!!

Just Dance makes me Just cry.

Shoulda made a Wii HD.

@(Unverified) for what though...? really want to see Mario in HD?

Rooms: The Main Building?

Scary.

Only Rooms: The Outlying Buildings could be any scarier!

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Sometimes I think you try too hard...
:P

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze That would only apply if I were actually trying. ;)

It's especially weird, because the game isn't even any good.

Nintendo really has nothing to worry about considering mario galaxy 2 will probably be sold out everywhere once the holidays come around

@eagle6002

I think Nintendo's problem is only what should they do next. I mean they've had such a huge success with the DS and the Wii, but what can they possibly do to top these two platforms? The 3DS is the answer to the DS, but what about the Wii? :\

@eagle6002 WTF reply system failure?!?! V2

DUDE!! Mario galaxy in HD would've been awesome! Youtube the video of it running 720p via Dolphin emulator, it looks even better than it already does.

Where's Alan Wake on there?

@Shadowbender

It sucks that Alan Wake is being completely overshadowed by Red Dead Redemption. I'm not a big fan of GTA style games so I preferred Alan Wake over RDR. So sad to not see it anywhere.

@Shadowbender Alan Wake my dear and fellow fan isn't selling more than RDR but that doesn't mean that Alan Wake isn't selling.

cant blame em' both number two and one are places that are nothing to be ashamed of, good work.

i palyed the red dead redemtion, it was ok. i mean i thought GTA was ehh, and 4 was mhee. so maby its just not my thing. "im in mexico, the game was great uptill then. then it went from great story telling to me having to go get a teach me spanish book." Realy, sub title are a nice thing. i love hunting in the game. i play the old duck hunt music in the back ground once and made my friends red with laghter.

VERY impressed that RDR beat up Mario Galaxy 2, well played rockstar, well played.

Interesting how well Red Dead is doing in the UK. Britons, is there a special fascination with the American west in general in your pop culture? And If so, why do you think?

Don't know about all the young 'uns today, but when I was a kid we always used to play cowboys and indians!

So for me it's childhood nostalgia and Spaghetti Westerns!

Wow, surprising.
Especially since many Aussies imported Galaxy 2 from there, which would have bumped it up even further.
But I suppose the UK does love their R*.

Wait, Mario was beaten?! by a game thats older by a couple of weeks?! THE EARTH IS SHAKING! THE WALLS ARE CLOSING!...wait no?
well IT SHOULD be happening. Well I'll go back to hunting me some animals and dropping outlaws left and right B]

Apparently, it only got beaten by 1,000 units and that's beaten by a game on two consoles so I'd say it did very well

It's not like Galaxy 2 is better.

The game would be amazing if the camera wasn't so damn impossible. It's unadjustable 90% of the time, and in an explorer/platformer like Mario that's unacceptable.

"Week ending June 12" - that's only *two days* (or maybe three, depending how they count) of Mario sales, since it was released on June 10th. And it's still in 2nd slot.

"Apparently, it only got beaten by 1,000 units and that's beaten by a game on two consoles so I'd say it did very well "

If thats true its even better because its 2 days of sales vs a entire week.

Single format charts tho the game is top, with red dead 2nd and 3rd.

Part of the reason for Rooms: The Main Building's success in the charts is despite it being on the shovelware pile, it's had something that most shovelware and even high profile Wii/DS games get... TV Advertising. In particular ads aimed at the older gamer in mind, and especially with father's day quickly approaching quite rightly they're attempting to cash in on sales to their key demographic. Fair play too them too that they've pulled it off.

Charts finished on the 12th and Mario was released on the 11th. For 2 days, Mario did very well. Either way, the original Galaxy (alongside every Mario game still in circulation) has an extremely long tail beside the initial spike. Nintendo has some way of making games tail away for quite a while longer than expected.

(By tail I mean consistent long term sales for quite a lot longer than other games - ie. the skew of the sales graph)

WTF reply system failure?!?!

Ugh, this new joystiq pains me to even try and use...

The trick is not to reply to replies, once that's fixed all will be well, cept maybe that the 3 heart blue is too pale.

The better game sold more. Good job, Rockstar.

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