Did you spend your weekend screeching with terror as slavering zombies clawed at you from every angle? No, us neither. But that's why we avoid Yates's Wine Bars. However, it seems plenty of people opted for a virtual form of such entertainment by buying console game Resident Evil 5. Its publisher, Capcom, is trumpeting its sales as proving that games are now more popular in the UK than music or film.In a press release issued this morning (full text is at the bottom of this story), Capcom claims that Resident Evil 5 outsold every item on the UK singles chart (including physical and digital sales), and also beat the total sales to date of U2's new album over the weekend alone.”This is proof if any were needed that games are THE entertainment medium of choice in 2009,” says Capcom's Leo Tan. “Thanks to its strong storyline, amazing graphics and compelling co-op play, Resident Evil 5 provides hundreds of hours of entertainment at a relatively low cost – and it's this value for money that consumers are increasingly responding to.”Quite. Res Evil 5 has shipped four million copies globally so far, although Capcom says its comparison with the singles chart and [...]
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