Despite the nationwide isolation associated with the spread of coronavirus infection, which caused many stores to close in the UK, boxed game sales in the country have grown. This is reported by the portal GamesIndustry.biz with reference to tracker data Gfk.
The British bought about 350,000 copies of games last week, an increase of 3%, than a week earlier. It follows that over the past three weeks in the UK have sold more than 1 million boxed versions of games. Before any measures to isolate the population or social distance were introduced, local retailers sold about 150,000 games a week..
And even despite this positive trend, the performance of the new major release last week turned out to be seriously worse than the figures of its predecessor.
Remake of Resident Evil 3 started about two times worse than last year’s Resident Evil 2. It is possible that in the current conditions the game indicators will be somewhat smoothed out due to digital downloads, but data on them is not yet available.
In the weekly chart Resident Evil 3 is on the second line, losing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)that appeared last fall.
PS4-exclusive became another debutant of the reporting week. Persona 5 royalwho settled in fifth position on the chart.
Good sales of console bundles PS4 and Xbox One allowed projects such as Uncharted 4, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Forza horizon 4, Sea of thieves and The last of us remastered extend your presence in the TOP-20.
The same cannot be said for console games. Switch. The explanation is simple – the flagship models of Nintendo consoles in the country are completely sold out, resulting in sales figures for exclusive projects, such as Mario Kart 8: Deluxe, plunged sharply in the charts. Racing arcade dropped to 25th position, for the first time in three years, being outside the TOP-20.
If we talk about the recent hit exclusive platform, sales Animal Crossing: New Horizons fell by 35%. The game lost another line and was in fourth position.
The top ten best-selling games in the UK for the week ending April 4:
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Resident Evil 3 (debutant)
- FIFA 20
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Persona 5 Royal (debutant)
- Forza horizon 4
- Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy
- Grand theft auto v
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Minecraft: Xbox Edition
Previously, a resident remake of Resident Evil 3 could not get to the top of the Japanese charts.
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