Top 30 European software chart signifies PS3 stronghold

May 17th, 2010, 19:54 Posted By: wraggster

Heavy Rain's turned out to be a significant win for Sony in Europe this year, achieving a chart position that's bested every Xbox 360 release in 2010 so far.

The data comes by way of Nintendo's end of year financial results, which claim that Heavy Rain charted tenth in Europe - above every Xbox 360 game on the list. This is a surprising win for a game that essentially birthed its own genre.

The Top 30 list was gathered by Nintendo from GfK's data for the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium. Although this doesn't represent all European countries, we'd expect these nine nations to comprise around 90 per cent of Europe's video games market.


Three other PS3 releases charted in the top ten. These were Final Fantasy XIII in fourth, Modern Warfare 2 in sixth and God of War III in eighth. The latter achieved a third position in the US according to NPD.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 has to be content with a twelfth position in the chart, with Battlefield Bad Company 2. Modern Warfare 2 comes in at fifteenth and Mass Effect 2 just behind in sixteenth. The discrepancy in chart positions for the two Call of Duty platforms suggests that, unlike in the US, Infinity Ward's game significantly outsold on the PS3 in the last few months.

The top of the chart is dominated by the Nintendo Wii, where Wii Fit Plus, New Super Mario Bros., and Just Dance take the top three positions in that order.

Despite this, the PS3 enjoys the most chart positions with nine of the top 30. The Xbox 360 sits just behind with eight, the Nintendo Wii lags with seven and the Nintendo DS achieves just six. Although the PS3 demonstrates a significant stronghold in Europe, PSP games failed to chart.

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