2003's Best-Selling UK Games Analyzed

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Gamesindustry.biz article analyzing the best-selling UK videogames of 2003 so far. This intriguing analysis also includes sales figures, often difficult to come by in US charts, and notes the biggest selling all-formats title was The Sims, with "..total sales to date across the three console formats.. [of] a whisker short of 300,000, with the PS2 sales of the game accounting for over 90 per cent of that figure." Close behind it was soccer sim Championship Manager 4, which "tempted over a quarter of a million PC owners to part with their cash." Overall, they gave 'top marks', amongst others, to "Ubi Soft for bothering to port Splinter Cell properly", and 'must try harder' to "Sony for ignoring [marketing efforts for] any first party titles not developed in the UK."