Project CARS pulls in at the poll position on the new
U.K. top 30 PC sales chart on GFK Chart-Track for the week ending May 9th.
Grand Theft Auto V slips into the third spot this week and the
Homeworld Remastered Collection debuts at number 12. On the
all platforms chart Project CARS also debuts at number one as
Mortal
Kombat X falls to number three. Here's how this is
all summarized:
This
year we’ve seen a couple of motorcycle racing games (PQube/Milestone’s ‘RIDE’ &
Koch/Kylotonn’s ‘Motorcycle Club’) but now we have a 4 wheel racing game that
does something that no other racing sim has done for 2 years – and that is to
claim No1 on the UK All Formats Top 40 (since Codemasters’ ‘GRID 2’ back in week
22, 2013).
The game in question is ‘Project Cars’ for PS4/Xbox One/PC, a crowd-funded AAA
release developed by Slightly Mad Studios in the UK and published/distributed by
Bandai Namco. It’s also the first boxed product release to tick the following 3
boxes: triple screen 4K resolution and compatibility with Occulus Rift & Project
Morpheus…although neither of these VR headsets are actually commercially
available right now. Rockstar/Take 2 remain at No2 with ‘GTA V’ (-3%) and
Warner’s 3 week run at No1 with ‘Mortal Kombat X’ is over (-35%) as the title
drops to No3.
In terms of other new releases there are 2 new Nintendo titles, starting at No21
with Wii U ‘Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush’ with amiibo functionality and then
at No32 we have 3DS compilation ‘Puzzle & Dragons Z + Super Mario Edition’.
Re-entering the Top 40 for the first time this year at No38 is EA’s ‘Skate 3’
(+15%), which continues to enjoy a cult following on 360/PS3. The game dates
from 2010 but units sold in 2014 and 2015 so far are close to 25% of entire
lifetime sell-through, which is a highly unusual sales pattern for a boxed
product.