With the Summer lull in the games retail market continuing, there are few new releases meaning that evergreen titles lead the way. As has been the case for some time now, Nintendo feature quite heavily in the UK sales charts.
In a week with no big-hitting newcomers Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy on PS4 is still leading the way for the fifth week in a row. Discounted multi-platform hits follow close behind, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe securing the fifth spot this week. That's a nice increase from last week's 7th place; the week before this Mario Kart 8 Deluxe climbed 8 places. New Switch owners will no doubt be picking up this fun multiplayer racer in droves.
Splatoon 2 secures 9th place, sliding from 6th place last week. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild climbs 2 spots to settle in 11th place, while 1-2-Switch is the final representative for Nintendo's latest system at 27th, which is a nice boost from last week's 39th place position.
The top performer for 3DS is still Miitopia, which dropped from 15th place last week to 17th place this week.
Not a bad week for Nintendo in the UK, especially with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Splatoon 2 continuing to draw decent sales. Sonic Mania is notably absent due to it being a digital title; we wonder where that would have placed had it been included in the chart?
[source chart-track.co.uk]
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Just goes to show how redundant the UK charts are if downloads aren't included.
This is nice to see
Digital-only title absent from retail-only sales chart.
Surprise.
Where's Splatoon 2?
@Jack_Goetz It doesn't really. Sonic Mania is an exception to the norm in being download only. Though I think it will eventually get a physical release. Most big games get released physically but yes it would be good to include digital sales. I'd imagine it would be a nightmare and a lot of extra work to do.
@Raylax But that's the point; why omit digital titles? It's high time they were included in these charts as many people buy ALL of their games digitally.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Exception to the norm? There are loads of big digital-only games coming out on all consoles these days. It's not the exception at all.
@Damo Are there? Excuse my ignorance but I'm not aware of any. Outside of Nintendo related matters, I wouldn't be as clued in.
MK8 Deluxe, Splatoon 2 & Breath of the Wild are two, four and seven, respectively, in the individual charts. Nice!
Mario Kart was expected. But not in August, I thought it would sell better till last month. Great to see it did well even now. Shame that Digital titles aren't included as they're slowly becoming the norm. But it also shows how digital-only releases are a complete joke. I highly believe in digital. Just not much to think that it exceeds physical atm.
@Damo Absolutely, but that doesn't make absence from a very specifically retail-only chart notable 😋
@jswhitfield8
I really want to check out Hellblade just to see what the hubbub was all about. It came to my attention because Total Biscuit was complaining about it on Twitter on it because of its permadeath.
Why are people in the UK still buying Crash?
At least people in USA have much better tastes.
@Pizzagamer89
Because it's a damn great platformer collection for a good price.
This Crash sales are not normal. I wonder if it's gonna be the new GTA V.....maybe not.
I think it's great that it's the summer of 2017 and the best selling games are: Crash Bandicoot, Zelda, Mario Kart, and Sonic.
With Crash Bandicoot doing so well I'm hoping they'll release a brand new one.
Unfortunately I think the question is what purpose it serve the companies behind the chart to include digital sales? Companies like Chart-Trak and NPD work on tracking sales so they can sell this information to marketers and often back to the publishers (publishers know what they have sold to a retailer, but are often still interested in what a retailer sells on to the consumer).
The ONLY way to get digital sales figures is to get it from the publisher. That's going to cost money, and in some cases, the publisher might not even want to divulge it, even with the offer of money on the table. On top of this, one of Chart-Trak/NPD are now missing one of their biggest consumers, as they can't sell this data back to the publisher.
It all comes down to the purpose behind these charts, and just like all these games, it's all about making money for someone. Digital sales being missing doesn't really make them pointless, as the point of them was never really for us to discuss them every week/month.
Judging by my friends list, Sonic Mania had done very well.
If the music industry is able to count digital sales then surely the video-game industry can do likewise?
As for Sonic Mania, I still don't understand why they released a collector's edition that didn't include a physical copy of the game.
I think Sonic Mania could have topped the chart, given the cheap price, rave reviews, and it being multiplatform. Sonic Mania, like Crash Bandicoot, is about nostalgia, so while Crash is on it's second month, Sonic Mania, just launched... So sales should be more robust...
Sonic Mania would have been the UK best selling game of the week on the all-formats chart by quite some margin if digital sales were included.
If Sega are happy with Sonic sales they'll no doubt drop some figures in the near future.
Even being someone who very much likes physical releases and digital being just one reason i play less on the PC now ( they are other bigger reasons of course) This week I bought Hellblade and Sonic. Two of the largest games at the moment simply not accounted for. I wounder what effects smash hits like PUK Battleground would have had a this years charts. At 7 million sales, all digital over the last few months Its strange to think it will not have its place in the historical charts
Has Nintendo ever dominated the UK market? I discovered this site during the Wii U era. It seems to me from what I've read, Nintendo has never been number one for a who console generation.
@Pizzagamer89
Eh? Crash was Number 2 in the US sales charts for July. That's a lot of sales.
@Luffymcduck
I wouldn't bother. The poster you're replying to only has two comments on this site, both claiming that the Crash trilogy isn't selling, when it's clearly been one of the big sales successes of the year. Very odd.
@Damo
I thought the problem was the platform holders don't release digital figures in the UK? Not much Chart Track can do about that.
Go Crash
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