FIFA 20, traditionally showing excellent sales in the parent country of football, in the reporting week regained leadership in the fight against life simulator Animal Crossing: New Horizons. This is reported by the portal GamesIndustry.biz with reference to tracker data Gfk.
The annual football simulator managed to jump to the top of the chart, even taking into account a 7% drop in sales. truth The New Horizons it was even worse – the performance of the Nintendo Switch exclusive console dipped by 32%. This was the main factor in losing the top position.
Despite the fact that the sales volume of the two best-selling games of the reporting week decreased, the rest of the projects on the chart are not so bad. For example, a shooter placed on the third line Call of Duty: Modern Warfare added 36%, and the closed-circuit TOP-5 criminal action movie Grand theft auto 5 made even better (+ 52%). But the most outstanding growth showed racing arcade Mario Kart 8: Deluxe, soaring immediately to three positions (+ 98%).
Fitness game Ring fit adventurewhich a week earlier was on the fourth line of the chart, again flew out of the top ten and was in the fifteenth position. The innovative adventure project has been in a fever over the past six weeks as individual parties appear on the market, which are immediately sold out at once.
The only new release was the off-road simulator Snowrunnerwhich the press nicknamed the “Death Racing Stranding” after parody videos from developersdebuted at the twelfth line. Loyal fans could not get past the sequel to the 2017 game called Mudrunner.
Despite the ongoing quarantine regime, under which many retailers are still closed, and in the absence of any major new releases, over the past seven days, retailers managed to sell 16% more physical copies than a week earlier – more than 234,000 discs were sold. Sales of boxed games for the Xbox One, PS4, and Switch grew 23%, 19%, and 9%, respectively.
The top ten best-selling physical games in the UK for the week ending May 2:
- FIFA 20
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
- Grand theft auto 5
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Luigi’s Mansion 3
- Final Fantasy 7: Remake
- Red dead redemption 2
- Forza horizon 4
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