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Soul Sacrifice selling better than suspected.

Monday's UK chart showed Soul Sacrifice flirting with the wrong end of the chart at No. 26. However, an update from the same chart company now shows it at No. 18. Make that 15 if you delete multi-format entries of the same game, which is practically respectable mid-table.

Week 18, 2013 - Individual Formats (Units)

01 (01) 360 DEAD ISLAND: (RIPTIDE KOCH MEDIA)
02 (02) PS3 DEAD ISLAND: (RIPTIDE KOCH MEDIA)
03 (03) 360 INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US (WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE)
04 (06) 3DS LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER: THE CHASE BEGINS (NINTENDO)
05 (09) 3DS LUIGI'S MANSION 2 (NINTENDO)
06 (10) 360 TOMB RAIDER (SQUARE ENIX EUROPE)
07 (05) 360 DRAGON'S DOGMA: DARK ARISEN (CAPCOM)
08 (04) PS3 INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US (WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE)
09 (12) PS3 TOMB RAIDER (SQUARE ENIX EUROPE)
10 (18) PS3 GOD OF WAR: ASCENSION (SONY COMPUTER ENT.)
11 (17) 360 CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS II (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
12 (11) 360 BIOSHOCK INFINITE (TAKE 2)
13 (16) 360 FIFA 13 (ELECTRONIC ARTS)
14 (15) 360 DEFIANCE (TRION WORLDS)
15 (13) 3DS FIRE EMBLEM: AWAKENING (NINTENDO)
16 (07) 360 STAR TREK (NAMCO BANDAI GAMES)
17 (08) PS3 DRAGON'S DOGMA: DARK ARISEN (CAPCOM)
18 (NE) PSV SOUL SACRIFICE (SONY COMPUTER ENT.)

Never really investigated the chart mechanisms before, but maybe these include digital sales? Any ideas?


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