UK Charts: Pikmin 1+2 Blooms Into Its Physical Debut As Mortal Kombat 1 Leads The Pack

So many decent/good new releases this month, but not so much on Switch. Clearly showing here.

Wasn't expecting Pikmin 1 + 2 to reach number 4, that's surprising to me but hopefully it means we'll get another Pikmin game.

The main character on the cover of Lies Of P looks like the male version of Yennefer von Vengerberg. Or like her son. The game seems interesting.

@JohnnyMind
Yep, Cyberpunk went on sale in preparation for the Phantom Liberty expansion.

@JohnnyMind cyberpunk just had patch 2.0 drop which basically changes/improves most of the game. It's a massive patch, so with the sale and the dlc coming this week people are jumping back into it.

Pikmin 1+2 being so high up as a physical debut despite being digitally released 3 months ago is promising.

@JohnnyMind I had to scroll back up when I saw you mention Kingdom Battle, I thought you meant Sparks of Hope. I wonder if this is an error in the charts and that Sparks of Hope should be the one there. Weird how the new(er) game is nowhere to be seen on this list, would expect that with its relatively recent DLC drop with Rayman and all.

@wazlon Switch is the only platform where there's an additional benefit to physical media on top of the usual arguments about content deletion, box art, trade-in etc. On the other platforms, games take up the same space on the hard drive regardless of whether you buy digital or physical. On Switch, many games take relatively little space on your memory card if you buy physical. One of the several reasons I buy physical on Switch where it's an option. I imagine in this instance, I'm not alone in wanting the complete Pikmin collection on my shelf, on the same format.

@JohnnyMind That makes sense, yeah. But that fact that it has been discounted a million times before this was also a reason why I thought it might've been Sparks of Hope instead, since you'd think most people who would want it would have picked it up on previous sales already.

I guess maybe Sparks of Hope players and new Switch owners overall who hadn't gotten the (original) game yet saw this opportunity and that's what helped push it up there! Plus it's not often you see Mario games discounted like that to begin with, that probably helps as well.

@sanderev Never thought I’d see 3 Pikmin games in the charts at the same time. Yes, I’m counting 1+2 as separate, I’m cheating 😂

I think it’s safe to say Miyamoto’s passion project has finally found a larger audience. I’m confident we’ll get a Pikmin 5 now.

Just so you know that's Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII Remastered as the Twin Pack. Both games are just remastered of the original FF7 and FF8, not the remakes of FFVII.

Hmm, so the DLC drops and suddenly Scarlet is ahead of Violet after weeks of the other way ‘round…?

@JohnnyC I prefer physical games too. Good to see people are still buying them.

I'll pick it up later. I had tried to do research on the controls (still need to) and it seems fine so far for the motion controls in the New Play Control/3/3 Deluxe way supposedly.

The price is high though for the effort put in (resolution, maybe QOL who knows or as fair as remasters or ports with not much needing to be done) but at the same time if I can play Pikmin 2 that's good enough for me as the last one I have yet to play.

Controls was the only thing I cared about. I don't mind if they are ports at all I'm still interested to buy it.

The games are great still, I played 1 on Wii physically a few months ago and had no issue getting into it for the first time after my last time I played 3 Wii U years ago and the odd times with Wiimote tests as had only the Gamepad/Wii U Pro Controller at the time and my Wii in storage till pulling it out later for GameCube games/other Wii titles.

Good to see Octopath Traveler II back on the list.