The top of the UK multiformat chart remained largely unchanged from last week, with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, FIFA 20 and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order holding onto the top three spots in what will be the final chart of the year.
Nintendo still had some joy in the top ten, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Luigi's Mansion 3 holding onto positions 4 and 5 respectively. Further down the chart, Pokémon Sword slid from 6 to 9. Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled – which is available on Switch as well as other systems – held at number 10.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare |
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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order |
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Grand Theft Auto V |
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Borderlands 3 |
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Ukie Games Charts©, compiled by GfK Chart-Track
Did you buy any of these chart-topping games this week? Let us know down below.
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That's certainly another very UK-looking chart.
The cod factor is why a lot of major games won't release in the same window.
I still cant believe that Mariokart 8 is still right up there.
@Bunkerneath As long as the Switch keeps selling well, Mario Kart will keep selling well.
Christmas is that time of year that people want to shoot others on a screen apparantly.
I've never been much into shooting games. Played Counter-Strike 1.5 when that was hot, but looking back there was a lot of peer pressure involved . Lan Games with CS was thé hot thing to do as a teenager.
This years COD game is pretty good though to be honest.
Luigi's Mansion 3 killing it. Good on the green guy!
Gotta love Nintendos first party exclusives doing so well vs Multi Platform games
@Friendly If you work retail Christmas is the perfect time to play shooters since it’s stressful and some “Christians” get downright mean on Sunday and around the holidays.
@Vicki_S You can't be serious. Go re-read the community rules.
@Friendly High school students played CS because it was fun... Not because of peer pressures. Also - COD consistently remains in the top ranks all year round, it just so happens to release at this time of year so that they can maximise sales over the holiday period.
New Modern Warefare is really good. I just wish they made the bigger maps like Grazna Raid 10v10 like in the beta. 6v6 the map is too big.
Would love to see hardware sales for the U.K. as the OG switch has sold out everywhere atm, even on the nintendo store...
Cod and FIFA don't matter. People just buy the games like zombies. But they aren't good. And them being on a Nintendo console wouldn't help sales.
Compared to say four or five years ago, to see that many exclusive Nintendo titles in the U.K. top 10 is pretty astounding.
@sixrings
I know this is meant to be an attempt at a joke "mocking those stupid Nintendrones"...
But you do realize that FIFA has been released on the Switch 3 times and its sold incredibly poorly all 3 times (being about 1% of total games sales each and every time).
If the joke is that FIFA is on Switch and you're pretending to be unaware of that fact. Than I don't know why you mentioned COD.
Either way if the joke is that "this is what those stupid Nintendromes actually believe hur de durr" or if it's "I haven't heard FIFA is on Switch". Either way the joke isn't funny.
I'll Play COD when it is dirt cheap like WW2.
Only games there I am still playing are FIFA (great Christmas events this year) and Borderlands 3.
Finished Jedi and LM3. The problem with single player games.
@Toy_Link sorry to ruin your day with my unfunny comments. Third parties don't matter unless they say they love Nintendo. But always it's Nintendo number 1 Indies number 2 and third parties with their blood sucking dlc, lootboxes and capitalist greed a distant third.
@sixrings
I hope my comment didn't hurt your feelings too much too.
I'm sure you'll love Switch FIFA now that you know it exists. It has soccer/football, 1080p, 60fps, and Fifa Ultimate Team. Since we Nintendo fans can not appreciate true art, I hope you can forgive us infidels for being absolute scum for not wanting to buy a game we're not interested in.
Switch has the only platform exclusives in the top#10 - 3 of them. And 6 titles in the top#10. That is a massive win for Nintendo.
You ain't going to dislodge the main cross-platform releases from the top#3 over Xmas ... shooter, sports, Star Wars...
Nintendo's growth in the UK, which traditionally has not been a strong market for them, is quite impressive.
@Toy_Link infidels. That's a bit much. Puritans perhaps.
@sixrings
Ah yes, I remember the moral outrage from the Nintendo community over the sex scenes and excessive violence in FIFA 19.
@YozenFroghurt Takes more than just Mario Kart. Wii U's library overall is pretty lackluster and had virtually nothing at launch. Plus it's not all just about games. The Switch is a great idea that has mass appeal. Wii U was a bit of a gimmick that was terribly marketed, most of the casual market wouldn't have even known what it was.
@Toy_Link not sex but moral outrage about native voice chat which could lead to inappropriate sexy conversations.
@BenAV yoshi wolly world was better than yoshi crafted world. Im an odd ball but I'd take 3D world over odyssey. I would also prefer wind waker to links awakening. I swear if the Wii u came out without the gamepad for a $100 cheaper and with pro controllers the system would have been much better off. The gamepad was holding the Wii u back no different than the Xbox Kinect. Microsoft was smart enough to ditch their mistake though. That said the Wii u birthed the Switch.
@sixrings Being better than Yoshi's Crafted World isn't really saying a lot, neither are going to sell systems. Odyssey is far from my favourite 3D Mario but I'd still easily take it before 3D World, which I thought was only fun multiplayer. I love Wind Waker and thought the Link's Awakening remake was poor so no arguments there, but they're just remakes.
Agree that they were probably better off without the Gamepad. Dual screen gaming was a brilliant idea for handheld systems but it just didn't translate well at all to a home console system where you have to look away from the TV to see the second screen, so it ended up just being a pretty useless gimmick that not many games made great use of. Add the poor marketing on top of that and then the lackluster launch lineup and the system was pretty doomed from the start. First party support from there was too scarce (especially when it came to single player experiences) and third party support basically non-existent.
@Darlinfan I'm assuming his mind somehow made the jump to real-life shooters, one of the last things I'd ever joke about. I was accepted into UNC Charlotte shortly after the shooting and at the time I didn't know whether one of my closest friends was in class or not (she'd left campus right before it happened).
@Toy_Link Every version of FIFA released on Switch has been deliberately inferior versions of the "same" game on other platforms. Not just talking resolution or graphical issues, but full, major, features outright missing. And the most recent release being outright just a relabel of last year's game with an updated roster.
This is the BS that EA does. They deliberately release inferior versions of the products on Nintendo platforms, then, when those versions of the products sell poorly on Nintendo they say "See? Nintendo gamers don't want these games!" and thus it frees them of having to put further effort into ports.
If you still don't get it, if three restaurants all offer you a cheese burger, but one offers a burger that is missing the cheese, which do you think most people are going pick the majority of the time? Then that restaurant, which never wanted to offer you a cheeseburger in the first place, will say "See, you didn't want my burger!"
@Heavyarms55
EA's FIFA Switch cheeseburger is missing all of the condiments and most of the patty, not just the cheese.
@YozenFroghurt I think a larger part of the Switch being so successful is about it winning over a lot of actual gamers, rather than casuals. The type of people who actually buy more than one or two games. Games both big and small have been selling incredibly well on the Switch which leads to more developers wanting to get their games on the system.
The Wii U's problem is that it didn't really appeal to either gamers or casual players. Most of the people that bought are Wii U are dedicated Nintendo fans who will buy any Nintendo system (like myself). But the casual market didn't understand what it is and there just weren't enough quality titles, first party or third party, to draw in more actual gamers. Even as a dedicated Nintendo fan who bought the system on day one, I was pretty disappointed by what it ended up offering. By far my least favourite Nintendo system I've owned to date.
A bit of a stretch to suggest that the Switch's biggest selling games are Wii U ports. There's like three in the top 20.
I'm guessing console bundle sales count for MK8, so the full price sales of LM3 is arguably more impressive.
In other news, we tried to buy another Switch in the UK yesterday, there are none left! Game want a £50 deposit to secure one of their next allocation expected in February. Argos, Currys, Tesco, Asda all sold out with no indication as to when new stock might arrive.
@YozenFroghurt With almost all the noteworthy Wii U games have been ported over at this point, only 3-4 being in the top 20 isn't very impressive. A system needs more than a small handful of quality titles. The first party titles were very sporadic (and there was very little of quality early on) and there was virtually no third party support to fill the gaps in the release schedule.
The Switch on the other hand actually launched with a system seller and had multiple other major first party releases in its launch year. It didn't fall into the same trap that both the 3DS and Wii U fell into where there was just nothing worthwhile to play for ages.
And it's not about being 'trendy'. It's more about offering something useful and practical that you can't get elsewhere. The Wii U was less powerful than its rivals and had a gimmick in the Gamepad that didn't really add much of value, so all it had going for it was its exclusives which were too few and far between. The Switch on the other hand is very practical and versatile and offers something different to the rest of the market. The concept of being able to switch freely between the TV and handheld isn't a hard one to sell because it's actually extremely useful.
Wii U was a bit of a disaster from a hardware, software and marketing point of view but they seem to have learned from their mistakes in all three with the Switch.
@YozenFroghurt The Wii U caught the eye of no one really, not the casuals or the gamers. That's what happens when there's nothing eye-catching. I can't think of any Nintendo system that's been as lacking in quality titles as the Wii U. They went too hard at making games for the casual market (on the back of the Wii's success). Endd up with a few really fun multiplayer game but that's about it. Devoid of top quality single player experiences.
There have been a lot of Switch games breaking series records and even third parties and smaller indies have been having pretty good success on the Switch. There have been plenty of multi-platform games with significantly better sales on Switch compared to other platforms despite the lower player base. It's not just a few major first party releases that are selling well this time around.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe can not be stopped lifetime sales might be close to or at 30 million
I bought the Wii u simply because it was Nintendo's first HD console. Where as I skipped Wii because everyone else was offering HD.
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