According to the portal Gamesindustry.biz with a link to tracker data GfK, the top UK retail chart winner during the sale Prime Day from company Amazon became a family of consoles Nintendo Switch…
18 exclusive games for the Nintendo console entered the TOP-40 of the weekly chart. This impressive trooper led the life simulator Animal Crossing: New Horizons (second line, + 44%). The third, fourth and fifth positions comfortably accommodate a racing arcade Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (+ 70%), sandbox Minecraft (+ 95%) and fitness project Ring fit adventure (+ 79%) respectively.
Good gains from the week prior to the sale showed Just Dance 2023 – The demand for the dance game from Ubisoft grew by 233%, which allowed it to soar by ten lines at once and to be in seventh place.
In total, weekly sales increased for 29 games from the TOP-40 list. The role-playing game, which is at the sixteenth position of the chart, has become a definite record holder. Fallout 76, since the percentage of demand boost for it amounted to phenomenal 1000%…
Nevertheless, discount offers did not prevent the next iteration of the country’s traditionally strong football simulator FIFA from climbing to the top of the British charts. Despite a 65% drop in performance, EA’s game holds the lead for the second week in a row. The new soccer sim is reportedly just one week away from surpassing Animal Crossing: New Horizons to become the most successful physics-based UK retail release in 2023. This despite the fact that for the first time in the history of the series, the majority of FIFA 21 sales were in digital form.
There were also relatively recent projects that lost their positions in the British chart. Space Action Star Wars Squadrons after a 45% drop in sales, it flew from second to eighth place, and the platformer Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time (-47%) fell from third to ninth place.
Fighting game became the only debut of TOP-40 in Great Britain Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid (Switch, PS4 and Xbox One), which peaked at the modest 38th line of the charts.
Top 10 best-selling games in UK retail for the week ending October 17:
1. FIFA 21
2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
3. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
4. Minecraft (Switch)
5. Ring Fit Adventure
6. Super Mario 3D All-Stars
7. Just Dance 2023
8. Star Wars: Squadrons
9. Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time
10. Grand Theft Auto 5
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