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UK PS3 CHARTS: Deus Ex highest selling game, Red Dead and GTA reappear

Shubhankar Parijat — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:00:04 +0000

Deus Ex: Human Revolution, like with the PC and all formats charts, was the highest selling game on the PS3 in UK for the week ending September 3. Driver: San Francisco came in next, with Rugby World Cup 2011, Maddn NFL 12 and Call of Duty: Black Ops following consecutively.

Red Dead Redemption and GTA: Episodes From Liberty City also reappeared on the charts, claiming the 7th and 9th spots respectively. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Mortal Kombat also made it to the top 10.

Here’s the full top 10 list:

GfK/Chart-Track PS3 Top 10 (week ended September 3):

01. Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Square Enix)
02. Driver: San Francisco (Ubisoft)
03. Rugby World Cup 2011 (505 Games)
04. Madden NFL 12 (EA)
05. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision)
06. DiRT 3 (Codemasters)
07. Red Dead Redemption (Take 2)
08. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft)
09. Grand Theft Auto Episodes from Liberty City (Take 2)
10. Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros. Interactive)

New Rockstar San Diego game “will blow gamers away”

Shubhankar Parijat — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:03:03 +0000

Rockstar San Diego, the creators of the Red Dead series, and the masterful sandbox game called Red Dead Redemption, “working their socks off” on a new title that “will blow gamers away.”

A new report that has emerged on the internet says Rockstar San Diego is working on a totally new project, that is neither a Red Dead DLC, nor a GTA or a Midnight Club title.

We speculate it is Red Dead 3, or Red Dead Revolution, as it was recently leaked.

Red Dead Redemption to be a movie soon, Brad Pitt will be John Marston

Shubhankar Parijat — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:38:17 +0000

“Sources” have told Showbizspy.com that Hollywood star Brad Pitt will be given “first refusal” to play the role of Joh Marston in the Red Dead Redemption movie. “This is an exciting project with a great character at the center of it,” the sources said. “Brad is perfect for the role and he is being given first refusal,” they concluded.

“The idea is to make this in the style of an epic Western movie but with a few modern touches.”

Sounds really interesting, and yes, Brad Pitt would fit perfectly in Marston’s role. Red Dead Redemption already shows promise as a movie, so a true movie wouldn’t really be a bad idea.

NPD June Figures

Shubhankar Parijat — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:59:39 +0000

The NPD June figures are out, and my oh my, Xbox 360 is this month’s largest selling home console, and is in second place overall, the DS being in the first. The Xbox 360 has sold 451,700 units in June. As opposed to May’s 20% in hardware sales, the new Xbox 360 Slim model gave aboost to the market, and the overall hardware sales increased 5%. This being the Xbox 360’s second best holiday season month ever, the best being when Halo 3 was released, Microsft must be pretty happy with how things are turning out.

The DS retained its strong hold, though, and topped the charts again with 510,700 units sold. The PlayStation 3 and the PSP finished second last and last respetively, but Sony should be pretty happy nonetheless, this being their home console’s eleventh consecutive month of year-over-year unit increases.

“Hardware sales saw a notable uptick from May on an average sales per week basis, and all three current gen console systems saw unit sales increases over last year; in particular, the Xbox 360 and the PS3,” NPD analyst Anita Frazier said. “The Xbox 360 experienced its second largest non-holiday month after September ’07 when Halo 3 launched, and the PS3 has now garnered 11 consecutive months of year-over-year unit sales increases.”

In software sales, the Xbox 360 version of Rockstar’s much acclaimed Red Dead Redemption topped tha charts again, with 582,900 units sold. Super Mario Galaxy 2 was not far behind. It finished it second place with 548,400 copies sold.

Surprisingly, the recently released PSP megaton, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and other games like Transformers: War for Cybertron and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, failed to make it to the Top 10 NDP Software List.

On this, Fraizer said, “The new Tiger Woods release sold only 32 percent of what last year’s release sold in its introductory month at retail. That said, last year’s game saw a huge sales increase over previous versions, but still, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 did not break into the top 10 games for the month.”

Here are the NPD Sales Figures in their entirety.

June 2010 US GAME SALES

OVERALL DOLLAR SALES
Games: $1.1 billion (-6%)
Hardware: $401.7 million (+5%%)
Software: $531.3 million (-15%%)
Accessories: $169.6 million (+6%)

HARDWARE SALES
DS: 510,700
Xbox 360: 451,700
Wii: 422,500
PlayStation 3: 304,800
PSP: 121,000