UK Charts: Unicorn Overlord Plummets As Familiar Faces Return To The Top

Hopefully this drop in demand means I will be able to find a copy in the UK. Either been sold out so far or crazy prices. Amazon has it currently for over £100.

@RedRaven723

I've just checked via DekuDeals and Argos can get it to me within 4 days, not sure what it's like for your area. Amazon reckon 2-3 months though.

Wow, Hogwarts’ staying power is really impressive for a single-player game. In fact, upon searching I found that it was the best-selling game worldwide for 2023, which is really impressive because since 2009 only two years haven’t had a CoD game be the top-seller (at least in the US).

Mario Vs Donkey Kong is doing better than I imagined it doing, but it looks like it might beat Mario RPG with its place on the charts

@Woderwick @RedRaven723 There are other retailers, you know?

Not that any of them have this game at palatable prices. Say what you like about sites like LRG, but at least they maintain reasonable prices. If I bought this game at release/now, it'd cost me more than any other retail Switch game has. I've played the demo, its not that good.

Sony has the momentum in UK for the foreseeable by the looks. Our hopes lie with Peach...

@GrailUK zyeah they do, save fore few Nintendo games that always stay on top. Also i font thing Peach will move the needle, but the demo was really fun.

@RedRaven723 They have it on the game collection website. Unfortunately they hiked the price from £45 from when I pre-ordered to £53.

@gcunit

Why would I look for other retailers when I've found one that has it in stock?

And to be clear, I'm not interested in buying it myself, I was just trying to help the first poster find a copy.

Hang in there, Mario vs. Donkey Kong!

@TotalHenshin multiplat.

Everyone wants a hard copy and there aren’t any left so it figures!

@RubyCarbuncle Football is huge in the UK. Even if everyone who hated EA boycotted their games, it'd a drop in the bucket compared to the audience who just want a football game, it's more like official merchandise sales.

The bulk of the audience for EAFC likely doesn't even buy any other EA games either. It really is just a separate bubble from the gaming audience.

Nice to see UO still selling well on Switch even if it has dropped. This is normal for RPGs.

@johnedwin There are many multiplat games that don’t usurp CoD from the throne every year. I’m not trying to sneak in a political discussion either, I’m just saying that it’s impressive for a single-player only game to do so well.

@TotalHenshin CoD is usually the best seller in the US and Fifa (now FC) in Europe. Worldwide it's usually not easy to say which game sold the most. In 2020 it was definitely Animal Crossing with over 32 million.

Still a great SRPG and a great game, PERIOD. Sales figures don't influence my buying habits one bit; it's understood that some genres sell better than others and that certain IPs hold a vice grip on sales leader boards, but hobbyists like myself will continue to vote with our wallets and support deserving games that slip "below the fold".

Atlus may not have expected UO to sell as good as it currently has. Glad I pre-ordered the gem. Nearly thirty hours in and it's still been a joy.

I took a punt on EA Sports FC 24. Hard to say no for £20, and the last one I bought was FIFA 18, so felt it was time to upgrade.

Tried to get into it, but the story kept taking me out.

Guess I got lucky getting a physical copy? Was a pain in the ass just a few days after launch.

Arkham collection at 33, Arkham knight at 40. But where's sweetie squad?

@TotalHenshin i was thinking the same thing its wild how well that game is still selling

Utterly depressing that Potter still does so well despite how vile it's creator is...
I don't think you people realise quite howuch it matters... Or perhaps you do... Which is even more depressing.

@Real_Obsi 🙄

'EA Sports... It's so lame'
Still, impressive that a lot of Nintendo constantly remain in the Top 20
@epicgamner sadly, the same can be said for a lot of stuff in the entertainment industry; it's hard not for our funds to reach undesirable bigots at the top of the chain. Where I can, I answer with my wallet.

Shame about Unicorn even though I am to blame too without purchase (being between jobs is a good excuse though). Nice to see the percentages, Switch seems to be a very viable system all told.

Those sales splits are laughable for Xbox. I mean truly terrible.

How anyone gives Phil Spencer any credit is beyond me.

Why they are even thinking of more hardware is beyond me. They are dead as a hardware company.

Just go 3rd party and move on Xbox.

Or rather that should be eXBox

@GrailUK
I'm happy to see FFVII rebirth at least up there since the game itself has been incredibly fun (probably one of my fave rpgs of the past decade or so)

does make me curious if the console exclusivity thing is temporary since i would certainly double dip on those games if they made their way to "switch 2" since i always love RPGs on a handheld and would be nice to see if they could pull of some DQXI level porting magic.

Well, being sold out everywhere will do that to a game, yes.

No way number 13 and down sales number higher than few hundreds or even in the tens. Who the heck still buys wreckfest that game is super old. Not to mention nfs hot pursuit probably 5 people bought it on switch lmao.

@Mgalens it will be on PC after at least 3 month. Needs clarification on the exclusivity as even FF7R never gone anywhere besides PS/PC.

Square is a very weird company, sometimes they do exclusive for nintendo such as Harvestella and Triangle Strategy, for Sony like FF7 series & FF16. One thing for sure they never port their recent games to other consoles unless cases like Xbox paying for octopath traveller gamepass appearance or pushed by internal team like yoko taro always wishing he could port nier to Vita.... he got a nier port on switch.

@Sakaixx
hoping those rumours of a new sony handheld end up happening since it would be nice to have the games on a dedicated handheld.

the market definitely has changed since the vitas failure so hopefully something like that would be viable