EA Hits it big with Titanfall

EA’s ‘Titanfall’ lands at No1 on Xbox One and PC becoming the big release of 2014 so far. It also means EA now hold the two leading No1 titles by sales for the year. Titanfall more than doubles the sales of what had been 2014’s current leader FIFA 14, which until now had delivered the highest sales for an All Formats No1 back in Week 1 of  this year.  Titanfall also gives a collossal boost to Xbox One hardware sales with a huge jump of over 96% thanks largely to the new Titanfall bundle (including a download token of the game) accounting for over 70% of all Xbox One hardware sold this week.  The new IP is a welcome sight with EA’s last No1 title that wasn’t a FIFA stretching back more than a year when Crysis 3 held the crown in the first week of March 2013.  There’s a debut for Bandai Namco’s ‘Dark Souls II’ which has to settle for No2 in its first week.  The sequel to the original Dark Souls which was released in Week 40 2011 sees a 20% increase in week 1 sales over its predecessor while also debuting one position higher. The arrival of two new Top 10 titles means that ‘South Park: The Stick of Truth’ (-47%) is pushed down to No3 following its arrival last week.  ‘The Lego Movie’ (31%) holds its spot at No4 while Square Enix’s ‘Thief’ (-63%) slips three places to No5.  ‘FIFA 14’ (-31%) which had never been out of the Top 5 since its launch last year finds itself at No6 this week ahead of ‘Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare’ (-41%) at No7. ‘Call of Duty: Ghosts’ (-18%) is down two more places slipping to No8 ahead of Microsoft’s ‘Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition’ (-9%) at No9.  ‘Battlefield 4’ (-29%) is at No10, which makes it four Top 10 titles for EA in the All Formats chart this week.  Outside the Top 10 there is a return for Yoshi in Nintendo’s ‘Yoshi’s New Island’ arriving for 3DS at No12.  It’s the third biggest week 1 for a Yoshi title behind ‘Yoshi’s Island DS’ and ‘Yoshi’s Story 64’.

Top 40 Entertainment Software (All Prices)Week 11 Year 2014
Ending 15th March
LWTWTitleAge RatingPublisher
1TITANFALLPEGI 16+EA GAMES
2DARK SOULS IIPEGI 16+BANDAI NAMCO GAMES
13SOUTH PARK: THE STICK OF TRUTHPEGI 18+UBISOFT
44THE LEGO MOVIE VIDEOGAMEPEGI 7+WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
25THIEFPEGI 18+SQUARE ENIX
56FIFA 14PEGI 3+EA SPORTS
37PLANTS VS ZOMBIES: GARDEN WARFAREPEGI 7+EA GAMES
68CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTSPEGI 16+ACTIVISION
79MINECRAFT: XBOX 360 EDITIONPEGI 7+MICROSOFT
810BATTLEFIELD 4PEGI 18+EA GAMES
1011ASSASSIN’S CREED IV: BLACK FLAGPEGI 18+UBISOFT
12YOSHI’S NEW ISLANDPEGI 3+NINTENDO
913LEGO MARVEL SUPER HEROESPEGI 7+WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
1214GRAND THEFT AUTO VPEGI 18+ROCKSTAR
1415ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINESPEGI 18+SEGA
1116RAYMAN LEGENDSPEGI 7+UBISOFT
1617FORZA MOTORSPORT 5PEGI 3+MICROSOFT
1318NEED FOR SPEED: RIVALSPEGI 7+EA GAMES
2119PAC-MAN AND THE GHOSTLY ADVENTURESPEGI 7+BANDAI NAMCO GAMES
20KILLZONE: SHADOW FALLPEGI 18+SONY COMPUTER ENT.
1821LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROESPEGI 7+WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
1522WWE 2K14PEGI 16+2K SPORTS
1723BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINSPEGI 16+WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
2224NBA 2K14PEGI 3+2K SPORTS
3625LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIIIPEGI 16+SQUARE ENIX
2526DISNEY INFINITYPEGI 7+DISNEY INFINITY
3527THE LAST OF USPEGI 18+SONY COMPUTER ENT.
1928TOMB RAIDER: DEFINITIVE EDITIONPEGI 18+SQUARE ENIX
2329LEGO STAR WARS: THE COMPLETE SAGAPEGI 3+XBOX 360 CLASSICS
3130POKEMON YPEGI 7+NINTENDO
2831DEAD RISING 3PEGI 18+MICROSOFT
3432THE SIMS 3PEGI 12+EA GAMES
2733LEGO THE LORD OF THE RINGSPEGI 12+WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
3734SKYLANDERS SWAP FORCEPEGI 7+SKYLANDERS
3235POKEMON XPEGI 7+NINTENDO
2036GRAN TURISMO 6PEGI 3+SONY COMPUTER ENT.
2937FOOTBALL MANAGER 2014PEGI 3+SEGA
3838SONIC GENERATIONSPEGI 7+XBOX 360 CLASSICS
3039DONKEY KONG COUNTRY: TROPICAL FREEZEPEGI 3+NINTENDO
2640JUST DANCE 2014PEGI 3+UBISOFT

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