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UKIE’s announced the best selling game of 2011 was Modern Warfare 3.

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Chart-Track chief Dorian Bloch has said the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic before Christmas Eve weekend has disqualified it from being in the running for this year’s Christmas number one.

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Boom. Less than a year after its predecessor Modern Warfare 2 took over from Dr. Kawashima, Call of Duty: Black Ops has become the biggest-selling game in the UK ever.

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Chart-Track’s said that the UK games market suffered a YoY decrease in January, with unit sales down by 13.4 percent.

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According to a Eurogamer report, Xbox 360 sales have doubled within the past week in the UK thanks to the launch of Kinect last week.

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Chart-Track’s told MCV that Call of Duty: Black Ops sold 1.4 million units in its first day on sale in the UK, making £58 million in revenue.

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See this, Dr Kawashima? This is danger close right up in your bespectacled face.

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New Super Mario Bros. DS may have spent over three years on the UK charts, but another game has it beaten.

That game is the original Rayman.

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Microsoft Europe boss Chris Lewis has said UK sales of Xbox 360 are up a whopping 1,000 percent over last week, thanks to the console’s new SKU.

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Hardware sales in the UK are down a heavy 32 percent so far this year.

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Boxed UK game sales took a major hit in 2009, according to Chart-Track, with overall numbers down 18 percent for the year.

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Chart-Track’s defended its 1.23 million day one UK sales figure for Modern Warfare 2 in the UK, following Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter casting doubt on the number last night.

“UK retailers have been at the forefront of electronic data capture for decades, which in turn allows us to capture daily sales from 99 per cent of retailers on our panel,” said CT director Dorian Bloch, talking to GI.

“That’s over 6000 retail outlets plus all the etailers – currently 25 different store fronts.”

Pachter told VG247 overnight that Broadpoint AmTech’s Ben Schachter’s day one estimate of 7 million units for MW2 was “very reasonable… if we accept that the UK figure is accurate. My guess is that it’s not.”

Pachter himself put the day one number at around 4 million. Hit the GI link for a fuller explanation of how Chart-Track arrived at its figure.

FIFA 10′s sold “comfortably” more than 1 million units in the UK in three weeks, Chart-Track said today.

The game beat FIFA 09 to the million milestone by three weeks.

As reported earlier, FIFA 10 managed to hold off Uncharted 2′s launch last week to to keep hold of its top chart slot.

Chart-Track director Dorian Bloch’s told VG247 that UK PS3 sales have risen over 1,000 percent on Slim’s release.

“I’m not surprised by it,” said Bloch in a phone conversation. “There’s a lot of demand for the Slim.”

The exec said that while PS3 is shown as ‘+999%’ over week 35 in week 36, the figure is actually higher.

Chart-Track just issued the following data:

• PS3 is shown as ‘+999%’ over week 35. The system is set to display +999% when it encounters huge increases, so the actual increase in PS3 unit hardware sell-through is around 11X – so 11 times what PS3 was selling the previous week. Obviously people have been waiting for PS3 Slim.
• 360 is up +29% over the same time period.
• PS3 is the lead format in week 36 and is outselling 360/DS Lite/Wii (not combined, individually – they were all selling around the same amount in week 36) by approx 3:1.
• PS3 is the lead hardware format for week 36, 2009 and the last time it did this was back in week 1, 2008.
• PS3 software sales have increased by 17% (units) over week 35 to claim 3rd place in terms of software format units behind 360 & Wii (up from 4th place in week 35).
• PS3 software sales have increased by 5% (value) over week 35 to remain 2nd by value behind 360 (was also No2 in week 35, up from No4 in week 34).

Note that PS2 Slim came out in week 44, 2004 and showed an increase of +310% over the previous week (an increase of 3X).
Comparing the sales of all PS2 hardware in week 44, 2004 and all PS3 hardware in week 36, 2009 this shows that PS2 outsold PS3 by 21%, but of course PS2 was much cheaper at that point in the life cycle (approx £100) compared to the ASP for PS3 last week (approx £244). PS2 Slim came out in the first week of November 2004 and in Q4 you woud be expecting healthier numbers for most hardware formats.

It’s been announced that Germany has overtaken the UK to become the largest games market in all of Europe on a country-by-country basis.

According to data from Chart Track GfK international, sales in the UK dropped to twenty percent in the first half of 09, while sales went up in Sweden, Holland and Portugal: the latter having the biggest amount of growth with sixteen percent.

Sales in Italy and Belguim remain unchanged, while the markets in France and Spain had decreased.

It was also confirmed that the largest selling game this year so far in Europe is Wii Fit since the start of the year.

More over at GI.

GfK Chart-Track’s released lifetime figures for games hardware in the UK, as reported by Edge.

And here they are:

• Wii – 4.9 million (launched December 2006)
• Xbox 360 – 3.2 million (launched December 2005)
• PS3 – 1.9 million (launched March 2007)
• DS – 8.8 million (launched March 2005)
• PSP – 3.2 million (launched September 2005)
• PS2 – 10 million (launched November 2000)

That puts combined PS3, Wii and 360 sales at 10 million. Lots of millions.

More through the link.

Nintendo’s told VG247 that DSi sold 92,000 units in the UK in its opening weekend, not 103,000 as previously reported.

Both figures came from Chart-Track. The UK tracking body just revised its figure to the lower amount.

DSi enjoyed the fourth largest hardware launch in British history last week.

According to this MCV report, the British games software market is to be worth approximately £1.9 billion this year.

The site claims game sales this year are already ahead of those achieved in 2007 of £1.7 billion.

So far the market value has averaged out to £35m a week in 2008.

The calculations are based on weekly data provided by Gfk-ChartTrack/ELSPA.

There’s more through there.

DS Lite has broken the all-time weekly sales record for hardware in the UK, MCV’s reporting.

ELSPA/GFK-ChartTrack figures show that the console broke the record in week ending December 6.

The console’s beaten its own record: it first became the biggest-selling console of all time in the lead-up to Christmas last year.

As ever, no actual figures were released. God only know what’d happen if they were.

According to this MCV report, Chart-Track’s confirmed that 51 percent of all UK Tomb Raider: Underworld sales in Britain last week.

The title entered this week’s GFK-ChartTrack/ELSPA All Formats Top 40 at No.9, outselling the launch of last year’s original Tomb Raider remake (Tomb Raider: Anniversary) by 6,700 units.