Life simulator Animal Crossing: New Horizons returned to a leading position in the UK retail chart. Nintendo Switch Hybrid Console Exclusive sales for the week immediately increased 135%. Growth followed immediately after replenishment of stocks – stores received a new circulation. This is reported by the portal GamesIndustry.biz with reference to tracker data Gfk.
Last week’s leader in the face of a football simulator FIFA 20 had to move to third position.
The rest of the reporting week in the UK retail was quiet, since no new ones were noted in the TOP-40 boxed release.
Following Nintendo’s bestseller, the unstoppable Grand theft auto vSales of which grew by 47% over the week.
Beyond the tens turned out to be a remake Final Fantasy VIIwho lost three more positions and placed on the thirteenth line.
The announcement of the next Assassin’s Creed series game with the subheading Valhalla fueled gamers’ interest in “Odyssey“, which managed to climb immediately to the seventeenth position (+13 lines).
In total for the reporting week, British retail managed to sell about 225,000 physical copies, which indicates the stable operation of the market in conditions of retail outlets closed due to a pandemic.
The top ten best-selling physical games in the UK for the week ending May 9:
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Grand theft auto 5
- FIFA 20
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Luigi’s Mansion 3
- Red dead redemption 2
- Minecraft (Switch)
- New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe
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