UK Charts: Super Mario Bros. Wonder Narrowly Misses Out On Christmas No. 1

A part of my soul dies every time GTA 5 lands a top 10 spot on the charts

First of all, would it be possible for you to share this week' console splits for FC 24, Hogwarts Legacy and Red Dead Redemption?

Second, looks like Wonder has been enjoying a very healthy run at retail in UK, which was the expected outcome honestly

considering that is physical sales only, I wouldn't be surprised if wonder actually is at the top slot. Only Nintendo knows.

Is it wrong to find it a little funny that Mortal Kombat 11 outperformed Mortal Kombat 1?

A part of me was hoping the rebranded FIFA would fall flat on its behind because it's EA but I also think it's the first time in years they actually put in some proper effort into these games and that deserves rewarding. I don't know though I don't follow it close enough.

In any case it's nice to see Mario still performing well! That's 8 Mario games in the top 40, that is certainly impressive.

It got beat out by some crap.

Was hoping Wonder was going to make number one, as I think Switch will be the best selling console in the UK for December as the bundle deals are now all sold out at my shop and across all our stores and for home delivery.

Switch always does better in December leading up to Christmas than on Black Friday in November.

@FlashFan207 Considering most weeks you can buy MK11 and the entirety of its DLC for less than the price of one Deadly Alliance skin in MK1 I don't really find it surprising.

Wonder certainly performed better than 'analysts' predicted.

@Ryu_Niiyama I think Nintendo might actually be the last real stronghold for physical gaming purchases. With the games, except for a few minor patches, actually on the cartridges (and not like on PlayStation and Xbox with huuuuuuuuge mandatory downloads even when you got a physical copy - PC is like totally digital by now).

Therefore, it's the 1st place for Mario Wonder, Mario Kart and Nintendo sports if you discount shovelware

Not bad for a 2D platformer on a 7-year-old console...

seems they were desperate to get that top spot,
they've been emailing me about the game every other day it feels like.

@Rainbowfire Yeah, nipping at the heels of the multi-platform, national sport sim is nothing to be ashamed of.

Bluey !
The game is still on Top 21 - 30. 😊

@Axecon ya can’t have much left

@DavyPH got the Switch version for my son, downloaded it on a new 256GB Micro SD Card on Christmas Eve, he is absolutely loving it, playing it right now beside me. I hope someone from @NintendoLife can provide us with the % split for the multi platform games on this chart, please.

Dang its crazy how popular Hogwarts Legacy has been despite getting no coverage after it launched, and so much for Starfield being a big seller according to Microsoft...not even on the list....having gamepass is a bs way of counting sales... Played for a month and quit, Cool to see games like Jedi survivor and Gow Ragnarok still hold strong,

@Ryu_Niiyama

No chance it would be top. This is only the physical chart for all the games mentioned and Mario Wonder's digital sales would be competing with digital sales of games sold accross multiple platforms. Be unfair to expect it to be top frankly as a one platform title.

Finishing at no.2 in the physical charts ahead of the likes of mulitplatform behemoths like COD is still pretty damn great though.

(Be just Microsoft's luck that people are getting bored of COD right after they splash 70 billion on it (and other things of course))

Oh and also agree with others for seeing the splits of the multiplatform titles please.

It never deserved to be 1 it's just just new super mario bros with different graphics...smh

@Gamepro500

You are trying too hard son.

And it's still sold millions so boohoo.

Also you think EA FC is worth number 1 because it is so different to previous entries?!

@SBandy1 I hear the ball is rounder.

Speaking of which, could someone on the ground tell me what ‘EA Sports FC 24’ is actually being called? Are people still calling it FIFA, or are they actually using the new name?

“Fancy a game of FIFA?” rolls off the tongue a bit more naturally than ‘Fancy a game of EA Sports FC 24?’

@Maxz

Dunno about anyone else but I'm pretty much still calling it Fifa if it comes up in conversation which isn't much.

Personally I feel that Xmas number 1 should be single format rather than multi. I wonder if Wonder beat PS5 FC 24.

@Lizuka wow. That sounds like trash.

Regardless amazing game !!

@SBandy1 lol i got it for free, and your the one that got ripped off into buying a ugly new super mario bros game again that's in 2nd place lolz. Also soccer is a actual sport lol great response kid.

@Gamepro500

Took you 3 weeks to think of that response?

Deary me you are pathetic.

It is 'an' not 'a'.

Also you missed the entire point of my comment which isn't surprising.

"took you 3 weeks to think of that response?

Deary me you are pathetic."

yeah even more pathetic has to be the fact that you don't seem to notice that i don't care lol, and i don't cry over ugly outdated games....smh sad lil kids these days.