Resi 5 outsells UK top ten combined

Resident Evil 5 topped the UK All-Formats Top 40 in its first week of release, selling more units than all the other top-ten titles combined.

Data compiler Chart-Track also tells us that 55 per cent of sales were on Xbox 360, compared to 45 per cent on PlayStation 3.

Capcom's other recent success, Street Fighter IV, slips out of the top ten for the first time - it's at 13 - but the publisher is unlikely to be disappointed with the biggest sales for a number-one game since Call of Duty: World at War's second week in pole position towards the end of last year.

Elsewhere, Wii Fit jumped back up to number two, occupying the space vacated by Killzone 2 (now at five) and last week's number one, Empire: Total War, which is down to eight.

Other new entries this week are SOCOM: Confrontation at 11, Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force at 16 and Sonic and the Black Knight at 30.

It's also worth noting that while much of the chart is made up of the usual suspects, including Mario & Sonic (10), Wii Play (15), GTAIV (18), Guitar Hero: World Tour (22) and of course Brain Training (21), there's no longer any room for Dawn of War II or LittleBigPlanet, both of which slip out of the top 40 completely for the first time.

Looking to the future, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars may well be a shoe-in for number one if Resident Evil's first-week sales subside, and it will also be interesting to see how well MadWorld does.

Check out the full chart below.