ChartSpot: May 2004

Hopefully nobody at Capcom headquarters wears cowboy boots, because executives at the company are probably kicking themselves for selling Red Dead Revolver to Rockstar. According to figures released by the NPD Group last week, the Western-themed title was the best-selling game of May 2004.

Besides topping the combined sales charts, Red Dead Revolver also rode at the front of the Xbox and PlayStation 2 posses. Capcom's top tile, Onimusha 3: Demon Siege, trailed seven slots behind on the chart. Other titles of note on the console top 10s were: Nintendo's Pokemon Colosseum, the best-selling GameCube game, and Activision's Shrek 2, which led Game Boy Advance sales. Also, Halo: Combat Evolved was the number-two Xbox game, some two and a half years after its release. Midway's NBA Ballers duked it out with EA's Fight Night 2004 and MVP Baseball 2004 for top sports game honors.

NCsoft's City Of Heroes saved the day on PCs, with the superhero-themed massively multiplayer online game flying highest in the sales chart for the second month in a row. Seminal shooters Far Cry and Battlefield Vietnam swapped second and third places, followed by real-time strategy classic Rise of Nations and its new expansion pack, Thrones & Patriots. Jumping a whopping 28 slots was LucasArts' resurgent Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, whose $10 price drop enticed more PC gamers to feel the force.