UK Charts: FIFA 20 Stays Top Of The Table As Zelda: Link's Awakening Takes A Tumble

If FIFA didn't hit the top of the charts there would be something seriously wrong in the UK...

Yuck. EA's garbage continues to sell.

Sad. I wish ~gamers~ woke up and started respecting themselves

Crazy that FIFA 20 sold 2% on switch this time around and only 1% when FIFA 19 came out. Didn't these people read it's the legacy edition

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Ghostbusters remaster. Never played the original. I should probably try it out. Link's awakening is still fairly high up which is encouraging.

@Mrbayram92 Regarding FIFA 20 selling 2% on Switch as opposed to 1% for 19, that could be down to physical FIFA sales being lower overall for all consoles, rather than this year's Switch perfomance being better.

No signs of Dragon Quest XI... So sad.

If there is one franchise that can sell on name alone in the UK it’s FIFA.

Even if the career mode was in a shambolic state on launch. But hey, at least Ultimate Team was working right? Of course it was, it’s the only bit of the game that really matters to EA. The only reason it hasn’t split off into a FTP game yet is that enough people are still buying the game yearly to access it. It’s basically an advance bonus payment in EA’s eyes.

Continuing proof that ‘gamers’ in the UK have zero taste or intelligence.

Embarrassing.

@HappyMaskedGuy by that logic of yours, who were the foreign tourists flooding local retailers to get Fire Emblem and Astral Chain to the top?😅

@HappyMaskedGuy don't lump me in with these people, the reality is that the majority who buy them aren't really gamers at all and only ever play FIFA and maybe one online shooter

@zet As a UK gamer myself, the continued success of FIFA, CoD and GTA games doesn't reflect my personal tastes, or the tastes of other serious gamers that I know. Football (Soccer) is so big in the UK that games like FIFA will engage a lot of non traditional gamers that probably haven't bought a game since the last FIFA came out.

@carlos82 These FIFA players are usually more hardcore gamers than the Switch crowd.

@carlos82 @nhSnork

I’m talking about the majority. FIFA, GTA, CoD etc always rise back up due to the sheer number of copies bought.

If you think more people bought Fire Emblem or Astral Chain than FIFA 20, you’re absolutely delusional.

Also, you failed to note my bracketed ‘gamers’.

I’m a UK citizen, and I despise those games. But I recognise that I am in the minority.

@HumanDog Haha, good one.

@MS7000 ah that's a good point didn't think of that 👍🏻

I feel a mix of pity and annoyance to football fans. I pity them that their only choice is to buy from EA, but I'm annoyed with them because their fanboyism is what enables EA to treat consumers, including them, like garbage.

EA shovels out the same game every year with a small handful of tweaks and an updated player roster and tons of people buy it up regardless. Even though the amount of new content in the game should be a FREE update to the previous year's game in most cases, or at most, a paid update. But certainly not a full priced new release!

Then they release a strictly inferior version of their products, if they release at all, on Nintendo, and turn around a blame consumers when their inferior products don't sell well on the platform.

EA is the worst.

@HappyMaskedGuy hAhA gOoD OnE

All these FUT players play hundreds of hours every year. That's hardcore.

Soccer is seasonal while Zelda is timeless, it'll be back on top. Nice to see Ghostbusters on the list, I'm waiting for my hard copy to arrive... today I think.

@HumanDog Depends on your definition of hardcore.

A hardcore gamer for me is someone who plays a variety of high quality games to a high degree, as part of their lifestyle. Difficulty also plays a role.

FIFA is not high quality. By your definition a huge number of Candy Crush players would qualify as hardcore.

Most people who buy FIFA have almost zero interest in actual gaming.

@HumanDog depends upon your definition of hardcore I suppose, for me just playing one game all the time doesn't make you a hardcore gamer

@carlos82 no true gamer plays FIFA, right?
Fact is that non gamers lump all of us in together, from the most Avant Garde indie gamers to FIFA junkies, we're all just kids wasting time with toys to the grown ups.

@BarefootBowser I remember the good old days when Pro Evo was the rightful king.

I know plenty of people who buy and enjoy fifa almost every year. They play lots of other games too. Id put myself in this bracket too. I buy a fifa or pes most years. I enjoy their games. If people start criticising me for enjoying a game then those people are idiots.
Gaming is about having fun. Maybe spend more time enjoying what you're playing than hating what someone else is playing.

@Pigeon I’m actually staggered to see someone sticking up for the sack of pig faeces that is EA.

I’m sorry guys don’t hate me. I play Fifa with my friends

Imagine actually enjoying EAs trash lmao

I actually bought the Switch for FIFA. It was a good choice since the other console versions had been plagued by the built-in cheating system for years and I'd had it enough on X1. The Switch versions were better in this aspect and they also had a much more fun gameplay in my opinion.

To this day, 18 and 19 sit on top of my Switch library with 1500+ hours in each.

For me, it's infuriating that EA effectively killed FIFA on Switch with this updated roster called "FIFA 20 Legacy Edition". For the first time in 7 years, I didn't buy the newest FIFA.
What a shame.

On a side note: for those who complain about the series being the same every year - it's not.
Obviously, the Switch FIFA 20 is identical to the 19 (minus kits and roster updates) but the non-Legacy Editions are different each year.
If you don't know the difference, you are probably not interested in the game or you're just not a very good player.
Also, every iteration has live effects, both in Online Divisions and FUT which reflect the real football games played every week during the whole season.

I don't despise Fifa, i played hours and hours on it 20 years ago. Guess its even better now. Still Switch contributing just 2% of Fifa total sales is the main reason we have "legacy" editions of the same game. Its not the other way around

@HappyMaskedGuy,

Or proof they just like anything related to football, if somebody enjoys these games coming out each and every year what's the problem?, we don't have to like everything that sells well, that's where personal choice comes from.

EA bestest, ignore them shutting down studios and their in-game monetization schemes, just look at world famous soccer man on cover and you’ll realize that EA just made a GOTY every year!

I read the comments expecting smug Switch games stroking their e-peens and declaring who is and who isn't a true gamer.

I was not disappointed.

Cya
Raziel-chan

I am glad CTR is doing well.

@nhSnork A lot of those sales were us crazy American tourists. We wanted to commemorate our trips over there by buying multiple copies of Astral Chain and Fire Emblem: Three Houses to give fans over there a fighting chance. Also to see that exotic PEGI rating on the boxes.

(On a serious note, I've never been to the UK or Europe but do hope to visit one day!)

FIFA 20 is also #1 in the EU chart. So not sure how this says anything about the UK. It sells everywhere.

This years "bad FIFA20" is still better reviewed than the last 2 horrible FIFAs on Switch that tons of people here proclaimed it was "worth buying" when they came out 🙃

@Agramonte
At least FIFA 18 Switch Career Mode worked at launch...

What the hell is wrong with the general public. EA never have to put any effort in and make an actual at least half-decent game if relentlessly throw money at them on an annual basis for the steaming turd piles they keep squeezing out.

@Shinobi1Kenoby If i want to buy it every year i will. My money, my choice.

@westman98 Career Mode in FIFA20 can actually be fixed. Random cut features can't. FIFA 18 on Switch would not come up on top if listing what you could and couldn't do.

@Agramonte
No one is arguing that the inferior Switch versions are inferior.

@John_Deacon
I think GAME is running some really good Xbox One SAD bundle that comes with several games (Forza Horizon 3, Sea of Thieves, Gears 5, etc).

@westman98 Yeah but it's an excuse to have a dig at the Switch...so he'd be a fool not to get right in there, prepare for more snide behaviour in the Japanese charts article tomorrow.

@WiltonRoots
"Haha a Switch port of an old PS4 game sold less than the original PS4 release, told ya Nintendo gamezs dont buy amazin' 3rd party gamez like fiFA 20"

@westman98 "I bought it on the PS4 for $4 three years ago, not rebuying it with worse graphics now, I'd much rather read a paper on the go..."

Reminds me of those people we call "toppers", no matter what you do they did it first and better. If I went to Tenerife, they went to Elevenerife. And flew first class.

Be ready for fifa 21 legacy edition folks! all thanks to the idiots that baught 20

@WiltonRoots
"I'd much rather read a paper on the go..."

This is my favorite one by far.