
The UK charts data is here, and the number one spot has changed once again, but the Switch is still making comfortable progress in a good week for sales due to the extended bank holiday weekend.
Horizon Forbidden West returns to number one after being sniped out by Sniper Elite 5 — which has now dropped down to eighth. Those PS5 hardware bundles have certainly helped Guerrilla Games' sequel see a second surge a few months after Forbidden West launched.
Nintendo Switch Sports returns to a pretty safely in second place and LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has used the Force to get back into third. Though the PS5 is the best selling version of the latest TT Games LEGO game (with 37% of sales) the Switch release still made up 30% of sales this week.
So it's another familiar week this week, with the usual Switch mainstays — WWE 2K22 has seen a huge jump from to return to the top ten (from 35th) thanks to Sony's Days of Play sale, but otherwise, all of your favourites are still present and correct.
Just outside the top ten is Kirby and the Forgotten Land, which has jumped up a few places from 15th. Will it return to the top ranks next week?
Last Week | This Week | Game |
---|---|---|
2 |
1 | Horizon: Forbidden West |
3 |
2 |
Nintendo Switch Sports |
4 |
3 |
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga |
6 |
4 |
FIFA 22 |
7 |
5 |
|
8 |
6 |
Pokémon Legends: Arceus |
35 |
7 |
WWE 2K22 |
1 |
8 |
Sniper Elite 5 |
9 |
9 |
Minecraft |
5 |
10 |
Gran Turismo 7 |
[Compiled by GfK]
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[Compiled by GfK]
Comments 16
I'm glad I'm different, didn't even play games like most UK gamers played.
I prefer playing obscure / unpopular games than the most wanted / too popular games.
Switch Sports is Very Fun, well Deserved! I'm glad it's successful and I hope we see more add ons besides Golf.
@Anti-Matter thankfully for Gamepass, I've tried Sniper Elite 5 before I decided to waste money on it. Too boring for me.
I'll wait with purchasing Switch Sports until they're done with the updates. Don't see why I should buy a half finished game. Same goes for Mario Strikers, I'll wait until they're done with the free updates before I get it.
In the meantime, my backlog is still big enough to last me a lifetime and I really enjoy hunting bargains for videogames.
FIFA!!!!
** shakes fist **
Loving Switch Sports, it's awesome online and great fun to play with my family, can't wait for Golf and more sports to be added, but having a blast with it.
Got Switch sports this week, my kids (5 and 11) really dig it.
I feel it is a really stripped down experience from the WII , i feel everything is on rails and just not as fun as the WII version.
But! seeing the enjoyment of my kids when we battle it out with swords or badminton is priceless.
I love the look of these characters in Switch Sports, they are so cutsy and colorful. But online I always end up with a trihard who put his lifes effort into mastering this one minigame and you just have no chance.
@relinqued,
Totally agree, the Mii's are just so dated.
I wonder how many physical copies of Minecraft Microsoft had sold so far. That game hardly ever disappeared from the UK and Japan sales chart at all and it's on its 11th year now.
@uptownsoul This is just one region. In Japan, the Switch OLED just by itself has higher lifetime sales than PS5. Overall, supply issues are definitely hurting sales still till this day.
Sony seem to have had a good week. Predictions for Mario Strikers? First for a couple of weeks I reckon, easy.
@uptownsoul No the “narrative” is PS5 is underperforming in all the regions [due to stock shortage and still lacking a lot of system selling exclusives] and plenty of PS4 versions still selling more then PS5 equivalents.
UK is one of Sony’s strongest regions so it should be expected they dominate the market even if they need bundles to do it.
@uptownsoul Nothing in life is every a shoe in. With inflation going up and up and up ... Sony better sell those PS5 sooner than later because people are gonna be running out of money soon for extra beyond food and rent.
Nice, Switch Sports is fantastic, well deserved.
@uptownsoul I'm not talking about the inflation that we have currently. I'm talking about the inflation that is still to come. We are facing year-over-year 8 to 9% inflation rates. (It's because politicians thought you could foolishly cut taxes and continue increasing spending---forever. They create an inflation bomb so to speak.) Anyways, gaming falls under a luxury good. And when bad economic times hit, gaming will be one of the things people can cut back on. It's not that people won't want it.
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