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US PC game charts: May 21-27

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Jun 8, 2006 2:35 pm PT

Oblivion retakes the sales throne, Heroes of Might & Magic V debuts in third, Rise of Nations slides to eighth.

Online may be the future of the role-playing game genre, but single-player adventuring isn't dead yet. A resurgent Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion relit the dragonfires of gamers' hearts and wallets this week, claiming the top spot on the NPD weekly PC sales charts. During the week of May 21 to 27, Oblivion dethroned last week's champ, the massively multiplayer success World of Warcraft, which slipped to the second spot.

While those two RPGs were duking it out for the top spot, a representative from a much less popular genre snuck in right behind them. Ubisoft's turn-based strategy game Heroes of Might & Magic V debuted on the chart in the third slot. While that helped push fellow turn-based strategy game Civilization IV off the charts completely, it did give the subgenre a higher spot than any real-time strategy game this week. Microsoft's real-time one-two punch of Age of Empires and Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends came in the eighth and tenth spots, respectively.

A trifecta of Electronic Arts' Sims titles held their ground on the charts, with the Sims 2 expansion packs Family Fun Stuff and Open for Business holding their respective spots at number four and number seven, while the original The Sims 2 moved up from sixth to fifth, swapping places with the NCsoft MMORPG Guild Wars Factions. EA also provided the only first-person shooter on the list, Battlefield 2, which took the ninth spot on the list.

46 Comments

  • Tranceplant

    Posted Jun 18, 2006 10:14 am PT

    I hope Rise of Nations won't slip too much... it's an awesome game.

  • daemous

    Posted Jun 13, 2006 8:20 am PT

    WoW isn't a business model based on box sales. It's recurring monthly revenue from subscriptions. It took the previously imagined ceiling of MMORPG players and increased the count by over an order of magnitude.

  • Mr_pAiN

    Posted Jun 12, 2006 11:16 pm PT

    elder scrolls still leads!!! WoW and sims 2 still ALIVE!!!

  • nightfend

    Posted Jun 12, 2006 3:15 pm PT

    It is amazing to see that WoW is still selling so well. It's old and already has 6 million members. How many more people can possibly play that game?

    And what happened to Ghost Recon for PC?? Geez, that game is already off the charts.

  • ajwall4

    Posted Jun 12, 2006 1:44 pm PT

    The Sims 2 people enjoy building things. Personally, after a long day of being a nice guy, I like to inflict some misery in a game.

  • azizrulez

    Posted Jun 12, 2006 9:28 am PT

    Sims 2 still in the top 10 list
    its amazing that the game is still popular after so many years

  • xpdude

    Posted Jun 12, 2006 6:45 am PT

    Sims 2 just never gets off the list...

  • halfling666

    Posted Jun 11, 2006 4:19 pm PT

    even with the re-rating of ECIV it sells!

  • Eggon1

    Posted Jun 10, 2006 5:37 pm PT

    thats cool Elder scrolls rock wit it, lean wit it

  • lordxymor

    Posted Jun 10, 2006 9:18 am PT

    are you high on something? Oblivion gameplay isn't boring, it's great, but I'm past the hype.

    Now playing: HeroesV. That's cool.

  • Blackat

    Posted Jun 9, 2006 11:27 pm PT

    Arg why are people buying TES? It was sooo boring! They nailed the graphics, the combat, the world... but forgot the gameplay! People don't buy it unless patch 1.2 fixes known issue: No actual gameplay included in original release

  • unholygemini

    Posted Jun 9, 2006 8:00 pm PT

    ES4:Oblivion and BF2 are both up there, good. I am at peace now.

  • SunnySimantov

    Posted Jun 9, 2006 10:38 am PT

    That's one reason I'm proud of being a Sims owner- it keeps getting sold!!

  • mareaper

    Posted Jun 9, 2006 9:10 am PT

    Wow, it's sad. College really ruined my PC Gaming habits. I do not have a single game on that list
    Time to get back to gaming.

  • Yuck_Too

    Posted Jun 9, 2006 7:22 am PT

    I think they should combine the numbers for ES4 and the collectors edition to give a true idea of how many they are selling

  • samuelnoir

    Posted Jun 9, 2006 6:47 am PT

    When I think that I'm still playing Morrowing because my comp won't run Oblivion it makes me really really sad ... =/

  • PwnageUK1989

    Posted Jun 9, 2006 2:16 am PT

    ELDER SCROLLZ R00LZ!!!!

  • Jas2_3

    Posted Jun 8, 2006 10:50 pm PT

    WOW still up there, damn man. Especially with those cartoonish graphics.

  • slickr

    Posted Jun 8, 2006 10:01 pm PT

    the chart is prety crazy, wow and sims 2 still selling, just wow!

  • EvanO_O

    Posted Jun 8, 2006 9:06 pm PT

    lol Oblivion is on a roll and is having great momentum for the holiday season.

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