UK Charts: Top Three Receive Another Shake Up, But Mario Stands Firm

Wow Xbox is non existent

Are the Xbox split percentages due to Game Pass? Or is it just a distant third in the UK?

Uhhh not sure Sony are going to care too much about this chart placing for Helldivers 2.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/02/helldivers-2-is-blowing-through-estimates-around-1-million-sales-in-less-than-a-week

Seems like it's doing far better than was expected? In that context I don't really know if these charts, while interesting, are much of a bellwether for telling anything meaningful about overall performance really.

I must admit that the last 2 main worlds (Fungi and Magma caverns) and the Bowser levels are Wonder's best parts. All the normal levels before those are too easy, but the last sections left me thoroughly satisfied.

So, yeah, I think that, ultimately, Wonder deserves all the praise it received and I can see why it continues to sell.

@Baler

Maybe in more ways than one after this week.

@StevenH
Might be worth comparing the EU chart to see if something similar has happened. These are boxes games only, hence the lack of PC, for example.

Hogwarts Legacy trying to not be popular:
Impossible

@imadeanaccount it's fairly..basic - don't wanna outright say generic - as far as open world games go but if you're into Harry Potter as a series the game does a phenomenal job of bringing Hogwarts and its surroundings to life.

I get why it was the best selling game of last year.

@Qwiff I didn't get into Mario because the levels were far too easy (constantly have 99 lives) but I was told to stick to it and I've just reached the Magma world and it's so good. Made me drop down to 96 lives! Starting to really like the game but those knockout challenge stages can leave. Especially since time carries on while you watch a door open. I don't move on until I've got the green tick for the 100% level completion and those levels annoy me.

Didn't expect Suicide Squad to hang around that high in the charts.

@Littlejack
For multiplayer games where a significant portion of sales come from PC like Helldivers, retail sales won't matter much at all.

The Arkham games make you feel like Batman. SS makes you feel like Batman's parents.
Anyway, I wonder if Gotham Knights is going to see some sales or concurrent players jump due to how rough SS turned out. I'm playing City very slowly. Savoring every bit. Cause...you know...RIP Rocksteady.

@Dom_31 I'll play HL just for the music. I don't know if it is from the movies or what, but it's stellar. Every single little sting is excellent. The game itself is mid, and I don't go for HP...but that thing sounds incredible.

@Baler Yeah it is. On this chart it is too.

It's really telling the MW2 is outselling MW3.

Also good to see sonic on the charts even if sega is a bit disappointed in its sales performance.

Wow sonic superstars is low

@Qwiff Thanks for mentioning that!
As someone who just started Wonders and grew up with World, I'm so far quite disappointed with Wonders.
It's just incredible how much was going on in World and how much of a replay value certain levels had, depending on your progress.
The implementation of Yoshi was also a real game changer and I cannot see anything similar happening in Wonders.
Sure, it has a lot of lovely new ideas and implementation of gimmicks from previous titles, but it is still far away from blowing me away in the same way as World did (as a 5 year old )

@StevenH I can see why, those who bought the game only buy it cause it had better graphics or had not bought Persona 3 Portable yet. Those who want the game already got it with Persona 3 Portable which came out not too long ago and had no reason to get it again just for the better graphics.

@mazzel In the early 90s, you didn't have too many games to choose from. (I assume for the moment that you played World back when it was new.) So basically once you got a game, you had to stick with it.

Children have much more games to choose from nowadays. So I can understand why they made the design decisions that they did with Wonder. That is, an easy path for most players and more challenge for those seeking it out. I.e. the Special World, which is, indeed, hard.

For a game that's apparently a disgrace to the Batman Arkham games, Suicide Squad seems to be selling well.

I cannot tell as I haven't seen anything beyond a comparison of Harley Quinn's costume that randomly popped in my feed and I don't really intend to check it out.

I finished Hogwarts Legacy last week and enjoyed every minute of it. The Switch was not the best platform visually, but I soon didn't care after I got suck into the story.

Be interesting to see how Suicide Squad hols up after a couple of weeks.

Bluey is still on Top 30. ☺

I'm glad its doing so well for nintendo but every time I look at these charts I wonder how that many people are still buying MarioKart 8. If people keep buying it we will never get 9!