Resident Evil 5 has outsold all other forms of entertainment in the UK, according to Capcom. And the horror action game is not the only one doing well – Halo Wars and the winners of the BAFTA Video Games Awards are reporting dramatic sales.
Resident Evil 5 was the best-selling game in the UK last week – outselling everything else in the top ten videogames chart combined. It has already shipped over four million copies worldwide. And now Capcom have announced that it outsold the entire Top 200 singles combined (physical and download sales), outsold U2′s sales of their new album “No Line On The Horizon” to date and took in more cash than the top five movies combined. According to the company that means videogames are now the number one form of entertainment in the UK (TV watching and Internet-surfing don’t count, apparently). And that Resident Evil 5 is top of the pile.
Lower down the pile, but still doing very well, Microsoft announced that Halo Wars has now sold over one million copies. Making it the most successful console strategy game of this console generation. And both Play.com and the GAME group have experienced a mini-sales boom, due to the BAFTA Video Games Awards. “In all GAME stores the nominated games were stickered as official BAFTA nominees, and in the last week the winning games have been re-stickered to highlight their Award success,” GAME’s COO Terry Scicluna told trade newspaper MCV.
Out now | £50 | Resident Evil 5 (available at Game.co.uk for Sony PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360)
