After the slight delay of last week's UK boxed charts, you would be forgiven for thinking that this week's may be much of the same again; but with a whole bunch of new releases, the data has been well and truly shaken up.
Yes, FIFA 23 still holds onto the top spot like a leech, but this week has seen two great openings for Nintendo. Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope comes straight out of the gates in at number three, proving itself to be a franchise which is ever-growing in popularity despite being a somewhat unusual pitch, and Persona 5 Royal lands the number six spot with an impressive 79% of sales coming from the Switch (Playstation 5 made up 17% while Xbox Series X|S accounted for 4%).
Splatoon 3 continues to slip down the charts in its seventh week on sale, now appearing at number seven, while Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and the other Nintendo mainstays such as Nintendo Switch Sports and Animal Crossing: New Horizons prove that it is going to take substantially more than four new releases to push them out of the charts.
Anyhow, that's quite enough chit chat from us! Here is your look at this week's UK charts:
Last Week | This Week | Game |
---|---|---|
1 |
1 | FIFA 23 |
- |
2 | Gotham Knights |
- |
3 | Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope |
2 |
4 | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe |
- |
5 | A Plague Tale: Requiem |
- |
6 | Persona 5 Royal |
4 |
7 | Splatoon 3 |
3 |
8 | Horizon Forbidden West |
5 |
9 | Nintendo Switch Sports |
10 |
10 | Animal Crossing: New Horizons |
[Compiled by GfK]
Have you purchased any of the top ten this week? Let us know what you picked up in the comments below!
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Not in the UK, but Persona 5 Royal is all I've been doing besides working and college. I reckon i should probably do some real studying instead of virtual studying, huh? Heh
I'm not too surprised with Mario and Rabbids. Most things with Mario in the title make at least decent performances in the first week. Next week will be interesting though. I'm also intrigued to see how Bayonetta does when it releases. Niche title on a single platform. I hope it does well though
Goodness, the Switch is eating heartily this week and the next couple. None of these games particularly interest me but I'm glad to see so much momentum for the platform still.
@Nikhogan
You can play videogames in Persona 5. This way you do not even have to do virtual studying.
Enjoying sparks but it was never gonna beat multi platform FIFA and Gotham knights. Then we got COD next week.
See Splatoon slipping more as it’s not a main stay for the UK market, even though I’m enjoying the game.
Will be interesting to see how Bayonetta 3 does next week, won’t top as COD releases the same day.
Call of duty is out on Friday, that's the real test I would say as this one has some hype around it.
Strong openings indeed. Almost 80% of P5R sales were the Switch version, very nice.
@Rockboy247
Basically next week every game will move down one place as COD will easily take top spot.
Not for me, but it seems to do well every year.
P5R is on GP, and the game already sold millions of copies on PS4. It'd be concerning if the Switch version didn't make up the bulk of sales.
Good to see what looks like a fairly healthy launch for the new Mario + Rabbids. Another top-tier exclusive for the system.
WHY MAKE A NEW SYSTEM WHEN THESE GAMES KEEP SELLIGN LIKE HOT CAKES... NO NEED FOR A SWITCH 2 FOR ANOTHER 2 YEARS AT LEAST.
It makes sense the vast majority of sales are from the switch version, every playstation user already played the game by this time(or they can just pay half-price for the ps4 version) and xbox versions always have the lowest sales of the bunch(and the game is available on gamepass at that)
@fox_mattcloud
Bayonetta will land 3rd or 4th. Same week launch as the new COD and I highly doubt it will beat Fifa 23 so it will be a highly respectable top 4 finish for it.
So on playstation 5 persona 5 Royal sold 4 times the amount as on xbox, even though its already been out on playstation for 3 years with sales over 5 million. That doesn't send a good message to atlus for future versions, and yes I know it's on gamepass but not every xbox user has gamepass plus even with gamepass you would think there would still be a lot of people buying the game to support Japanese games, plus with the games length you would think it could take some over year to complete it, so they would want to own it instead without fearing when will it leave the service.
The switch percentage doesn't surprise me though, the handheld capability suits persona perfectly, and i will definitely be picking up persona 3 and 4 on the switch.
@UltimateOtaku91 you’d be surprised how strong the GP user base is. I got a bunch of friends to try it out via GP. I actually decided it that way over Switch since I bought it twice on PS. I hope it does well on Xbox to keep the future series coming to the console
@FightMikes I know there's around 20 million subscribers but a large chunk of that is on PC. I fully believe the next mainline persona games will be on all platforms going forward, I think only ones that will be playstation exclusive will be remakes of 1,2 or 3.
I suspect those Persona 5 Royal platform breakdowns will look the same in other regions and in its ultimate Total Sales.
Here's hoping it hits at least 1 mil 🙏
Well, I added one to the P5R sales for Switch. Had to put my money where my mouth was for all those years of port begging.
@uptownsoul I think it is not on the service anymore.
Nice to see persona5 is doing well.
@UltimateOtaku91 p3 will come to the switch early 2023.
And Xbox game pass has 30ish million subscribers already. A part of it is on pc but most of it is ultimate, I think,
being on both? I reckon most of that user base checks out a game and if they like it they buy it on that store since they get a 20% or so discount. They hardly ever buy physical anymore for that reason alone.
Great opperning for both games.
NieR fell off that quick? Or do UK people not buy that sort of thing.
@SteamEngenius Between the Evergreens and the new releases, it's extremely hard to stay in the top 10, especially for a game that is essentially a port (as good as it is).
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U ALL NEED TO PLAY PERSONA 5
@RobynAlecksys Another fact. You're an uneducated fanboy. Anti Consumer? As opposed to charging people full price for ports? get the hell out of here. You're such a thick tool its not even funny.
@Eagly Everything about what that guy says is Dumb. Best to ignore kids like that.
@RobynAlecksys I’m reading different news often: https://www.purexbox.com/news/2022/10/yakuza-director-says-xbox-game-pass-helped-the-series-grow
@UltimateOtaku91 Xbox probably paid a lot of money to have Persona 5, 4 and 3 on gamepass, so they were obviously expecting people to play it on gamepass. Also, Yakuza games are coming to xbox after having the entire franchise on gamepass.
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