Football Manager takes down FIFA, to reach top spot
Posted by Graham. Filed under G, News, PC. Tagged with Football Manager, Sales Chart.
Sega and Sports Interactive have done it once again, they have broken into the number 1 position, on the multi-platform charts, with Football Manager 2008.
According to Spong, Sports Interactive now hold 7 of the Top 10 spots, for biggest launch weeks ever for a PC game, with the other three being claimed by World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, The Sims 2 and Half Life 2. I knew that Football Manager ‘07 was one of the fastest selling, but I didn’t realise that Sports Interactive had some 5 others under its belt already.
This great news, marks a whole year since Sega have managed to reach the number 1 position, in the multi-platform charts - last hitting pole-position with Football Manager ‘07. It also meant that Sega beat down the might of EA, knocking FIFA 2008 out of the no.1 spot.
Other noteable games FM’08 held back, include; The Orange Box (Half Life 2), Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Halo 3 and PGR4.Â
In the words of Borat “Great Success!”
[Source: Spong]
Comments on this article
There have been 7 responses to this article.
I’m happy but sad at the realization it might take SEGA another year to make it to the number one spot again…
Oh wait, Mario & Sonic might be up for a fighting chance.
Aki-at
Posted October 23rd, 2007 at 10:31 am.
Fifa is a crock of shite anyway. I can’t believe anyone buys more than one version of it, and yet they do en masse.
Eejits.
Saphion
Posted October 23rd, 2007 at 11:42 am.
Borat. That’s current.
Bryan
Posted October 23rd, 2007 at 1:10 pm.
Borat is a timeless classic, like old spice..
Ryan
Posted October 23rd, 2007 at 2:09 pm.
I’m pretty sure there’s some kind of refractory period between fad and timeless classic, though. Borat came out almost exactly a year ago… Has it been long enough?
Bryan
Posted October 23rd, 2007 at 9:49 pm.
To all non-UK citizens:
Borat has been around for years, on The Ali-G show, plus a ‘cameo’ in the Ali-G Movie. It’s just the Borat movie that’s recent.
I think it’s been nearly a decade now- and he’s still the best. :)
Graham
Posted October 24th, 2007 at 5:04 am.
SEGA is going to become>EA
Great Success for SEGA…
SEGA’s Football Manager takes down EA’s FIFA…HELL YES!
Regards-Alimn
alimn
Posted October 24th, 2007 at 9:08 am.