MW3 takes #1, helps UK industry to record sales week

Update

UKIE and Chart Track have redacted the figures of £83.1 million in revenues and the 2 million unit sales, saying that the numbers are unverified. They have been retained below for consistency.

Original story

Modern Warfare 3 has sold just shy of two million units and raised £83.1 million in sales to take the number one spot in the UK chart during the domestic industry's biggest ever sales week.

The previous largest total weekly sales for the UK games industry were £113.8 million in week 45 of 2010 - bested by £7 million with this week's total of £120.8 million.

Units sales of Modern Warfare 3 this week were actually lower than Black Ops' launch week by 1.6 per cent, but revenue figures were 1.5 per cent higher. The revenue figure marks the game as the country's most successful ever entertainment launch, outselling the launch weeks of the previous four Harry Potter films combined.

Bethesda's Skyrim took second with the biggest ever launch week for the publisher, more than doubling sales of Fallout: New Vegas. Only Modern Warfare and Battlefield 3, along with FIFA 12 and Gears of War 3, have had bigger launch weeks this year.

Moshi Monsters: Moshling Zoo is the third top-ten new-entry at seven. Uncharted 3 slips from last week's second to sixth, with Battlefield 3 holding on to third place.