MW2 aiming for all-time UK record

MCV Staff 11th January 2010 Business News

As Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 spends its ninth week at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, it has been revealed that the game is now the third best selling title (in unit terms) of all time in the UK.

With seemingly no end in site for MW2’s chart supremacy, Activision will surely by eyeing up the all-time UK record.

The most successful game in UK history is currently DS puzzle outing Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training. Nintendo’s defining portable title was released in June 2006 but still regularly reaches the Top 40 – this week it sits at number 35.

Second place is currently held by PS2, Xbox and PC epic Grand theft Auto: San Andreas, which was first released in 2004.

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