Xbox 360: Low impact on GameStop chart

- Nintendo DS appears the most on retail's chart
- Follows Xbox low ranking on Chart-Track game chart

Microsoft's Xbox 360 console only appears once across two weeks of top-10 charts from retailer GameStop Ireland.

So-far this year the games retailer has sent out two 'GameStop Top Ten Bestsellers' for the weeks ending  Saturday, 12 and 26 January (both viewable below).

The Xbox 360 only appears once in the two weeks, at number six for Burnout Paradise, while the PlayStation 3 version of the same game topped the chart and the PS3 has four places across the two weeks.

The hand-held Nintendo DS holds the largest amount with eight places in the two weeks, the Nintendo Wii has three, and the PS2 has another two for Sony.

GameStop's chart can only be viewed as a snapshot of the retailers top sellers within the two named weeks. However, it mirrors the Xbox 360's low ranking on the Chart-Track Irish games charts. The chart includes a large selection of retailers in Ireland, but not Gamestop, Xtravision, or Smyth's Toys.

Microsoft had complained that GameStop - in Microsoft's words, "the largest video games retailer in Ireland" - was not included in the Chart-Track data, but GameStop's own charts back the picture of low games sales.

The console maker has said it does not release country-by-country numbers and told Games Toaster it is unlikely to comment on the GameStop charts. The only independent numbers available helps draw a picture of large media coverage and advertising but small shear of the games sales market. 

New data provided by Chart-Track to this publication shows that the PlayStation 3 gained a larger percentage 5.8 percent from March to the end of last year then the 5 percent Xbox 360 obtained in 2006, its first full year.

Chart-Track's data is complied at the point-of-sale from a large selection of retailers including Game, Tesco, Argos, PC World, HMV, Play.com, Currys, Golden Discs, and others.

GameStop Top Ten Bestsellers
- Week ending Saturday January 26, 2008

1. Burnout Paradise                      | PS3
2. Mario & Sonic at the Olympics   | WII
3. New Super Mario Bros.              | NDS
4. Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training   | NDS
5. More Brain Training                    | NDS
6. Burnout Paradise                      | Xbox 360
7. Super Mario Galaxy                   | WII
8. The Simpsons                           | NDS
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare   | PS3
10. WOW 60 day pre paid card        | PCR

GameStop Top Ten Bestsellers
- Week ending Saturday, 12 January 2008 

1. Uncharted: Drakes Fortune IRL   | PS3
2. Super Mario Galaxy                   | WII
3. Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training   | NDS
4. More Brain Training                    | NDS
5. Fifa 08                                      | PS3
6. Bee Movie                                 | NDS
7. WOW 60 day pre paid card        | PCR
8. Need For Speed ProStreet          | PS2
9. The Simpsons                           | NDS
10. Fifa 08                                      | PS2

Comments

[Gavin]

Brand loyalty is an unfortunate reality...
Luckily I'm heading elsewhere as soon as I'm done with college.

[skuddington]

i dont think the xbox's game portfolio appeals as much in europe as it does in america. i think the xbox needs more forzas and bioshocks and (god forgive me for saying this) viva pinatas to work out over here.