UK Charts: Pikmin 4 Storms To The Top, Beating The Sims 4 And Zelda

Very happy for the Pikmin, it deserves success!

While I bought it digitally myself, I’m so happy to see Pikmin 4 make such a strong start following its release last week. The game deserves all the success in the world.

Meanwhile, I’m really hoping that its current – and lowest yet – 4th place isn’t the beginning of the end of the chart-topping dominance of Tears of the Kingdom. At least, not yet anyway. It’s not only my game of the year, but in my opinion, the greatest video game ever made.

it's not all that surprising. the marketing for this game was simple but so effective, giving this overload of happiness, cuteness and little baby Pikmins and a pooch I want to hug and cuddle with!! I hope it has some legs!! Love this series!!

Good to see it at #1 but I don't see it staying there long, even after 1 week.

The Sims 4: Horse Ranch?! 🤯
My money....!!! 😫
My PS4 storage...!!! 😫
Why EA keep torturing us with never ending DLC ?

Brilliant to see. I’m a massive Pikmin fan so it feels wrong to have not picked it up yet but I have so much of TotK left to get through that I can’t justify getting it just yet for it to sit on the shelf for when I can get around to it.

Whoop great news! Hopefully it’ll have more legs than Oatchi.

Great to see, I've been really enjoying Pikmin 4 myself.

this is what we like to see cant wait for the 50 minute arlo video detailing what this implies for pikmin's future

Booyah!

Good news for the future of the series. Hopefully it stays around for many years to come.

Congrats to Pikmin 4! Can we finally consider the Pikmin series mainstream now? I haven’t bought it myself yet, though will likely pick it up this week. Also great to see Hogwarts Legacy still going strong (#6) several months after release.

Go Pikmin! I hope it sells really well 🙂

This shows that any first party titles will sell a lot on Switch. Well deserved for Pikmin.

Now it’s time to bring F-Zero and Starfox home Nintendo so you can see those IPs can sell as well.

disappointed to hear Pikmin 4 sold less than Engage which didn't do near as well as Three Houses

Good news. I am having a great time with Pikmin 4.

Lots of great games in the top 40 and I think I would like to play Octopath Traveler II sometime.

I wouldn’t say ‘to little surprise’. Sure it’s had a big marketing push, has got great reviews and the Switch has a large user base, but Pikmin has always been quite a niche franchise.
As a longtime fan I’m very glad to see it at the top, of course, but it still surprises me.

Very nice to see. Waited such a long time for Pikmin 4. I’m enjoying the game so much, trying not to rush through it but take my time. Glad to see others went out and supported the game. I hope it sells well and we get a Pikmin 5 faster than we got 4.

I really hope this game does well.
I've been in love with the franchise since I first played New Play Control Pikmin 2 on the Wii.
I adored Pikmin 3 but found it to be very short and fairly easy.
This game is feeling a hell of a lot longer and there's some proper challenge in there too if you try and do everything.
I've always called Pikmin the best Nintendo Franchise that barely anyone has played.
Hopefully Pikmin 4 can change that.
It deserves to.

Nintendo ip really is getting a chance to perform well with the broad appeal of Switch! Plenty more time to release other stuff before the next console. Cough, cough F-zero, cough cough.

The Sims 4: Horse Ranch is not even a full game but DLC. I wouldn't compare the two.

45% higher? Well if that continues (big if), Pikmin 4 will break 3 million copies. I really am hoping for a Forgotten Land level break into 5+ million for the series (then maybe Pikmin might become a more regular franchise... maybe...) but it seems unlikely.

@Jhena watch for sales. It's been slipping in and out of 25% off territory lately. Might even be on sale now.

My favorite game series of all time. So happy its doing well. I would love for Pikmin to continue until the day I die. I have never loved a video game series as much as Pikmin.

A bit surprised to see Street Fighter jump back in that high.

@Jhena Octopath Traveler II is great. Check it out!

Nintendo have done unbelievably well getting their big IPs back to the top of the gaming world. However I really hope the house of waluigi appreciates that without the more niche titles like Pikmin those big IPs and their gaming portfolio can very quickly go stale. For example if the new New Super Mario bros is too similar to the old New Super Mario bros this could start a downward trend of same old same old and people starting to ignore Ninty titles again.

They’ve done really well diversifying their overall exposure with the Mario Movie, theme parks etc but they need to diversify their gaming catalogue again and strike while the iron is hot.

TLDR bring back Wave Race already!

Look at Pikmin 4 crushing Final Fantasy. You love to see it.

@beazlen1 Mario Wonder looks like a complete change of pace to previous Marios. Music, art style, everything but jumping. You say they need niche titles like Pikmin. Well...congrats here it is. They have shown massive support to non-blockbusters like Fire Emblem. Nintendo has handed out their IPs to other developers to give them a shot. Nintendo have given more 3rd party support, like to Platinum, than I have ever seen them give since the NES. They have brought back classics, in a very well-done manner in Metroid Prime and Advanced Wars. et cetera forever.

Frankly, I don't know what else you could possibly ask for. This gen, Nintendo has given us practically everything.

@sketchturner even GTAV is crushing FFXVI

@beazlen1 Wonder is not a "new" Super Mario Bros. title, they've dropped the "new" part.

@Cordyceps
Thanks. I do not mind paying 50€ for a big game like this, but it is always nice to save money.

@MannequinRaces
The reception towards Octopath Traveler II is very positive, thanks for confirming. I am sure I will play it when I am done with the games I have.

@sketchturner Hey we have it on great authority from Square Enix that Final Fantasy 16 is doing exactly as well as they expected. lol

@Otoemetry yes that’s why the first new isn’t capitalised. I was simply making a reference that it looks quite similar to the old New.

@Cashews I think I am butt hurt that they haven’t updated one of their many great racing IPs for a decade or so now. WaveRace, F-zero, DKR, 1080, ExciteTruck/Bike, Pilotwings etc.

@Otoemetry Well, GTAV has consistently crushed most everything for the last million years, so that's no surprise 😜

Is that F Shift Key at - appropriately - position 23?

Great start for Pikmin. Can't wait to see the Japanese numbers on Thursday, they are going to be very impressive, prob around 550-600k.

If I remember right, Nintendo didn't get a single game at number 1 in the UK charts for about 6 years before the release of the Switch, so it's amazing that things have changed so much that it's 'little surprise' when a niche game like Pikmin gets number 1!

@beazlen1 I feel you on those. The racers have been all but forgotten. I guess we did get improved versions of those older racers on the subscription service at least right?

Pikmin 4 will be my first go at a Pikmin game. Anyone else buying it, go Argos, it's £10 cheaper than anywhere else.
I really wish we'd get a Sims 5 already. I know the DLC sells well so they're not in a rush but Sims 4 feels so empty compared to other Sims games.

Also, we need Sims on the Switch, I feel it'll be perfect for it, even if it's a spin off like The Urbz or even an updated version of the mobile game.