For the 3rd consecutive week, James Bond 007: Everything or Noth...
For the 3rd consecutive week, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing from Electronic Arts was the #1-selling software title in the U.K., the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Assn. (ELSPA) said CharTrack data for the week ended March 13…
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showed. EA again had the most titles in the top 10, including Cricket 2004 at #8 in its first week of availability and Need for Speed: Underground at #10, down 4 in its 17th week. Square Enix had 2 titles in the top 10: Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles at #5 in its first week and Final Fantasy X-2 at #9, down 5 in its 4th week. Also new to the top 10 was LMA Manager 2004 from Codemasters at #2. Others were Sonic Heroes from Sega at #3 (down one, 6th week), Deus Ex: Invisible War from Eidos at #4 (down one, 2nd week), Norton Internet Security 2004 at #6 (down one, 23rd week), SOCOM 2: U.S. Navy SEALs from Sony Computer Entertainment at #7 again in its 2nd week. EA’s Bond game was also the #1-rented game in the U.S. for the week ended March 7, Rentrak said preliminary Home Video Essentials data showed. Rentrak said the game earned an additional $334,942, for a total of $859,685 to date. EA continued to dominate U.S. game rentals among publishers while PS2 games continued to dominate rentals among the platforms. Separately, Media Create (MC) said PS2 and Game Boy Advance (GBA) continued to dominate videogame hardware sales in Japan during the week ended March 7. MC said PS2 had a 40.64% market share while GBA led with 49.93% -- 45.98% for the front-lit GBA SP and the remaining 3.95% for the standard version. GameCube had a 7.88% share, while Xbox again trailed far behind with only 0.79%. Hanging on again -- just barely -- were PS one and Bandai’s handheld SwanCrystal with 0.42% and 0.34%, respectively. On the software front, MC said sales for the top 100 games in the week totaled about 767,000 units -- 44.87% less than last week and 40.41% less than the weekly average. MC said “only 10 new titles made it into the rankings this week” and their market share was “quite low at 18.79%” as there “were no major releases this week.” It said Onimusha 3 from Capcom for PS2 was the #1-selling game for the 2nd consecutive week. Trailing it at #2 was Nintendo’s Custom Robo for GameCube. It was the only GameCube title in the top 10, which was dominated by PS2 and GBA games, www.m-create.com.