The UK Games Market

This chart shows The Top 20 All Platform games that have been sold over the past week worldwide. As you can see, EA And Ubisoft dominate the chart with 3 Games each, followed by Activision and Bethesda Softworks with 2. And companies such as Capcom, THQ, and Warner Bros only have 1 game each on the Top 20 this week. This chart shows how popular a publisher such as EA And Ubisoft are as not only have they both managed to get a game in the Top 5 (Ubisoft's Assassins Creed III - #1 and EA's FIFA 13 - #2 & Need For Speed: Most Wanted - #5), they have both managed to release 3 games each that have made it into the Top 20. The Number 1 Game of this week is Assassins Creed III which is an established franchise from its two previous released games - Assassins Creed I And Assassins Creed II. There is only one new IP Game on the chart which is Dishonored and it is ranked the tenth most bought game this week. Most of the games are available on platforms such as Xbox 360, PS3 and the 3DS. These are the three main platforms that the publishers bring the games out on. Cross-Media Convergence is when a game is published and advertised in many ways such as online, instore or even available to buy over the consoles marketplace. A lot of the games are released on more than one console. However, there are five games on the top 20 chart that have been released on only one platorm.