UK Charts: Well, Look Who Cruised Back Into First Place

Quite happy to also see Metal Gear Delta and Star Wars Outlaws 2
Really enjoyed those two!

I don't get the 'Not long to go' tag line. Is that a Mario Kart World reference?

Is this the worlds kart racing game I've been hearing about? the one with the worlds, you know? I... don't know where I am... what was I talking about worlds?

A ton of overused- how? why is plant overused, labs, and uh dinosaur yeah dinosaur jungle... worlds something's bothering me about that, oh yeah shipping, wrecked pirate shipping, waves, boats... stadium, and a seaside town with a bunch of light colors, I think it had a space program with a rocket you could uhhh...? oh yeah you go into the bigger on the inside, and uh it's weird and has this classy disjointed music and saxophony brassy trumpetlike things I can't remember what can someone in the comments tell me which game I'm thinking about? I've suddenly developed a temporary case of dementia (medically impossible).

I think I could remember if someone could... what is write?

Interesting to see Trails in the Sky get almost double sales on PlayStation than Switch given I’ve always seen Switch as the JRPG machine

@TheSaneInsanity Username checks out. Kinda.

@gcunit (SHHHHH! oh you... : D) If it's not obvious, I'm poking fun at the mascot kart racing world(s) game.

Edit: EMOJI EMOJI BURN IT WITH FIRE! EMOTICONS FOREVER.

Mario Kart is a juggernaut of a series. The only game series comparable to it are Grand Theft Auto and the EA sports games. I just hope Nintendo add some DLC soon.

Im expecting Sonic Crossworlds to dethrone MKW for a week or two. MKW will likely rise to the top again shortly after as I imagine the attach rate with new SW2 purchases is high.

Both good games in summary ..... well for Crossworlds, the reviews suggest so.

Sonic x Shadow Generations - Switch 47%, PS5 28%, PS4 16%, Switch 2 6%

People aren't stupid, Sega.

@XenoMario the game is unavailable at every major retailer in the UK on switch, I pre ordered mine from amazon but they said it was supposed to despatch in October, so anybody with a copy at the moment is lucky.

Aw....
Too bad. 😟
I will wait for BLUEY back to Top 40 again. 😌

Imagine when DLC comes out for World.

Good sales for DKB, by the looks of it.

Currently playing Kirby the forgotten land and glad to see that’s in the charts, what a superb game has surprised me!

Those sales for Trails in the Sky look pretty decent for a JRPG in the UK 😃! Still interested in that one.

Dang, and all the clickbait videos told me MKW was dead

I took a break from Mario Kart World and jumped back into it over the weekend, and it's still just the most fun to control in the series for me. The additional mechanics are just really fun to experiment with!

This will definitely be the most popular game on the Switch throughout its entire shelf life.

I don't know how to explain it, but Borderlands 4 being higher than Bananza is a crime.

But, but, but people on YouTube keep popping up, repeatedly telling me that this game is dead and awful. Yet it keeps on selling quite well

@XenoMario
While Sky 1st Chapter is the start of the series and is a good jumping in point, the series has been on Playstation since it came out so it wouldn't surprise me if that's where the fans are. You still can't get Cold Steel 1 and 2 on Switch

Then there's people are like me who have played the first one and probably waiting on a sale to grab this one cause there's a JRPG coming out each week right now it feels like. Sky 1st, Atelier next week, Digimon week after, then Pokemon not long after that. I understand that I'm in the low number of people that enjoy all those series.

Expect MKW and DKB to stay up there over the next few weeks. We're in prime Christmas present purchasing territory now and the kiddies will want the shiny new console under their Christmas tree...

i wish we got US charts like this…sigh…but nevertheless overjoyed to see MKW in its rightful place! i wonder if the Galaxy titles can beat it?

Guessing that buying the console bundle definitively adds up to MKW numbers. So I am among those that bought MKW last week.

It's only been a few GPs, Knockouts and online sessions so far, but this one really feels like a downgrade compared to MK8D.
Of course we will be getting more content and stages I think in the future, and hopefully 200cc.
But this one really feels like the most random, least skill based MK that I have ever played , and I've owned all tv console MKs since MK64.
Don't know if they can fix that or if they even care, which is even worst

I wonder if we can get mario kart at no 1 & 2 !!

Glad to see Trails in the Sky on the list. I can already tell it's gonna be my GotY.

Mario Kart World needs to enjoy their reign for now but after this week they will get competition cause Sonic Racing CrossWorlds is coming for the gold this week.

umm.... Shady's back?

The usual suspects are at it again!

I'm curious to see how Silent Hill f will fare in these sales numbers!

Only in here for the Bluey comment. Right I'm off.

Lol, means they sold a few bundles

Switch 2 sales must be pretty healthy in the UK

I had the opportunity to play MKWorld, because I don't plan on buying a Switch 2 and I was impressed by how it's a LEGO 2K Drive clone, only without the open-world content (and microtransactions, thanks). Mario Kart World doesn't deserve the success that has, even though it's a beautiful game, but it's incredibly boring to explore.

And it would clearly run on the Switch 1; its only FOMO forced it onto the Switch 2.

Mario Kart is an insanely popular series of games, for good reason.

However, I’d love to know if sales would be as strong and I can’t help but feel they’re so high because it’s being sold as a bundle.

@WiltonRoots 😆

@Jade37 Yep, and to expand on this, when they finally brought the Trails series to Nintendo back in 2020, they started from the middle of a story arc in the middle of the overarching story (Cold Steel III).

So that really slowed the growth of a Nintendo fanbase cause everyone is telling potentially interested players that that's a bad game to start with, and you have to start the series with Trails in the Sky, or at the very least, Cold Steel I. (They're not wrong.)

Anyone with access to Sony platforms or PC probably figured, "well, I might as well buy the rest of the games in the same ecosystem." And people without access to those platforms probably just gave up on waiting for all these older Trails games to come over and found something else to play.

And to make matters worse, the Switch ports for the proper 3D games are supposed to be a bit rough in both the resolution and performance departments, despite not being much more visually advanced than a PS3 game. (Though maybe the Sky remake is better in this regard since it seems Switch was a target platform from the start for a change.)

I'd imagine only the most hardcore Nintendo fans would be willing to put up with the waiting this long to finally play this series on their platform of choice.

How does one of the worst Mario Kart's ever made continue to sell so well? Power of the IP maybe?