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Official UK game-sales chart

By Guy Cocker, GameSpot UKPosted Apr 5, 2006 9:58 am PT

The Godfather holds off Oblivion to take the UK's pole position.

This week's ELSPA official UK game sales chart as compiled by Chart Track sees The Godfather climbing to number one. Electronic Arts' movie-inspired action game replaces last week's champ, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, which falls to number two. The highest new entry this week was Nintendo's Animal Crossing on the Nintendo DS, followed by Far Cry Instincts Predator and Championship Manager 2006, which entered the top 10 at numbers eight and nine, respectively.

Best-selling games in the UK for the week ending April 1, 2006:

Rank This Week / Rank Last Week / Title / Publisher / Platforms

1 / 2 / The Godfather / EA / PS2, Xbox, PC
2 / 1 / The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion / Take 2 / PC, Xbox 360
3 / 4 / FIFA Street 2 / EA / PS2, PSP, Xbox, GC, DS
4 / 3 / Buzz! The Big Quiz / Sony / PS2
5 / 5 / Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter / Ubisoft / PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360
6 / * / Animal Crossing: Wild World / Nintendo / DS
7 / 6 / Fight Night Round 3 / EA / PS2, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360
8 / * / Far Cry Instincts Predator / Ubisoft / Xbox 360
9 / * / Championship Manager 2006 / Eidos / PC
10 / 7 / Driver: Parallel Lines / Atari / PS2, Xbox

An asterisk indicates that the game did not appear on the previous week's list of best-selling games in the UK.

The list above ranks games across all formats according to retail sales in the UK.

30 Comments

  • alpha_company

    Posted May 16, 2006 6:28 am PT

    The godfather is doing really well in the uk

  • weedr

    Posted Apr 10, 2006 12:13 am PT

    Shao_Kahn, have you played Oblivion? I'm willing to bet that you haven't. Alot of us that have been trying to make it through the RPG drought are really pleased with the game, obviously. As far as flavor of the month, Morrowind is still being modded. What does that say about Oblivion, which is a superior game? I think it will be around for a long time to come. And kudos to Bethesda for making it without a multiplayer component.

  • lee291

    Posted Apr 7, 2006 1:59 pm PT

    yeeeey im in the ukkkkk

  • tmacyao111

    Posted Apr 6, 2006 5:04 pm PT

    Is this even news?

  • Shao_Kahn

    Posted Apr 6, 2006 3:25 pm PT

    Yall need to just get over the fact that obvlivion isn't the be all and end all. Hell, in a couple of months you won't even remember it, just like every other "flavor of the month" game.

  • mariokart64fan

    Posted Apr 6, 2006 1:47 pm PT

    well driver 4 was 7 before and yes it is better then 3 so why wouldnt it come up to 10 , ds games been selling good since launch infact ds sold faster then gbasp gba at their launches ps2 would always be top but ps3 it may change

  • MedevilDragon

    Posted Apr 6, 2006 5:07 am PT

    People need to stop buying crappy games from EA.

  • NeoJedi

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 9:05 pm PT

    Although I haven't played Oblivion, I can say that The Godfather is an awesome game.

  • i_love_my_ds

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 6:30 pm PT

    Animal Crossing is #6 but it didnt appear last week? uuuhhh yeah sure

  • i_love_my_ds

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 6:20 pm PT

    Animal Crossing is #6 but it didnt appear last week? uuuhhh yeah sure

  • P2L5NM

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 3:47 pm PT

    WTF people have no clue, This is OBLIVION's 2nd week for gods sakes, it debuted at no.1 last week.

  • kcarlson1130

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 2:38 pm PT

    4 360 games in the top ten. there are alot of uk'ers playing fight night. you know that if you are on xbox live.

  • Kayrod29

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 2:37 pm PT

    Wow, I really thought Oblivion would of taken it.

  • Renegade47

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 1:39 pm PT

    For once that's not bad. Though Fifa Street 2 had been at the top for far too long. For shame people, for shame. Animal Crossing 6th?! That was unexpected, but not unwelcomed.

  • mattbirdy

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 12:46 pm PT

    heya all well i work in the UK a game shop called GAME ironically but the godfather sadly outsold oblivion even tho thats a better game the godfather is popular with everybody where only a select ppl with play oblivion but i do agree that its better then the godfather but also animal crossin on the DS rules as well as resident evil and weve just got pheniox wright ace attorney and that game rules but yer anyways fifa street 2 shudnt be in there but thats what u get for living in a football mad nation i guess

  • PrimeElemental

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 12:40 pm PT

    Just to clarify, Oblivion debuted at No.1 in the UK charts last week (the second biggest selling Xbox 360 game ever!), in its second week it fell to No.2.

    I think another interesting piece of information is that of the top 10, 40% of the chart is made up of Xbox 360 games, which have appeared to performed consistently well in the UK, since the platforms launch.

  • zcomhax

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 12:03 pm PT

    I think that Oblivion getting into the number 2 slot in the uk game charts is an acheivment since RPG's are seen as realy nerdy here in the UK. The kind of thing where you would change the channel if you friend walked in and make out you were playing halo or gta. I happen to have Oblivion and think its great but most of my friends havent even heard of it! And that EA trash always weeds its way into the the typical chav PS2 non-hardcore gamer! no offence

  • Kingofunrealuk

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 11:56 am PT

    I know this is really really childish, but the who posted the news is called "Guy Cocker."

    Jeeze.

  • PaddyDX

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 11:54 am PT

    Fifa Steet 2 and number 3? Heh, I see that the UKs taste in games never changes. Disappointing, really.

  • Pumper

    Posted Apr 5, 2006 11:24 am PT


    tbot19 --
    Godfather had an extra week or so to saturate the market as well; so you 'accept' it (not' except' as you put it).

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