Due to the lack of major releases, Ubisoft Massive’s The Division 2 stayed on top of the UK retail sales charts ending April 13th, as per Gfk Chart-Track and UKIE. Interestingly, it’s seen an 8 percent increase in sales over the previous week, as per GamesIndustry. FIFA 19 and Red Dead Redemption 2 managed the second and third place spots for the week.

FIFA 19 saw a 25 percent decrease in sales week-over-week, but Red Dead Redemption 2 saw an increase of 14 percent, similar to the previous week. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which stayed at fourth place, saw a 6 percent sales increase. Perhaps the greatest rise in sales was Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. It’s currently in sixth place with a 62 percent sales increase, thanks to Easter deals.

Titles like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Yoshi’s Crafted World, both of which managed to unseat The Division 2 for number one spots in previous weeks, have seen further drops than in the past week. While FromSoftware’s action adventure is in seventh place, Nintendo’s playful platformer dropped to fifth place. The latter’s sales also dropped by 18 percent.

Check out GFK/UKIE’s top ten for week ending April 13th below:

1. The Division 2
2. FIFA 19
3. Red Dead Redemption 2
4. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
5. Yoshi’s Crafted World
6. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
7. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
8. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
9. Grand Theft Auto V
10. Marvel’s Spider-Man

Kingdom Hearts 3, Square Enix’s long awaited conclusion(?) to its epic fantasy journey, topped sales charts in the UK in its debut week, and more than doubled sales of Kingdom Hearts 2. This is according to the latest data from UKIE/Gfk Chart-Track for the week ending February 2nd (via GamesIndustry.biz). It’s apparently the first time the series has seen a UK chart-topping debut, and also the most successful launch in the region for the franchise.

In terms of sales split between the versions, PlayStation 4 emerged on top with an overwhelming 82 percent. Xbox One made up the remainder, which makes sense, given the series’ origins on PlayStation 2. As for Resident Evil 2, it fell from the pole position last week to second place here, with sales dropping by 67 percent week-on-week.

The remainder of the top ten chart is otherwise composed of the usual suspects. Red Dead Redemption 2, FIFA 19, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 occupy third, fourth, and fifth place respectively. New Super Mario Bros. U saw a slight fall into sixth place. It’s pretty much business as usual.

Check out UKIE/GfK’s top ten best-selling games for the week ending February 2nd below:

1. Kingdom Hearts 3
2. Resident Evil 2
3. Red Dead Redemption 2
4. FIFA 19
5. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
6. New Super Mario Bros U
7. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
8. Super Smash Bros Ultimate
9. Grand Theft Auto 5
10. Spyro Reignited Trilogy

UPDATE: The figures reported in this report were based on originally incomplete data. An updated sales chart has been issued- you can take a look through here.

ORIGINAL STORY:

Gfk Chart-Track has released the data for video game software sales in the UK for the week ending January 12, and the enhanced Nintendo Switch port New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe has debuted on top of the charts in what GamesIndustry reports has been a relatively quiet week. FIFA 19, which was on top of the charts last week, has dropped down to second place as a result, while Red Dead Redemption is pushed down to number 3. Both games saw a drop in sales, as is often the case in January, which is traditionally a quieter month for video game sales- FIFA 19 sales dropped by 52 per cent week on week, and Red Dead Redemption 2 sales dropped by 53 per cent.

Red Dead Redemption 2 isn’t the only Rockstar game in the top 10. The perennially successful Grand Theft Auto 5 has also re-entered the charts, placed at the eighth position. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is in at number 4, while Switch exclusives Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe follow behind in the fifth and sixth positions respectively.

Battlefield 5 has dropped down two places to seventh, while Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy comes in at number 9. Forza Horizon 4 rounds off the top 10. You can check out the full top 10 below- as reported last week, Gkf Chart-Track will begin compiling physical and digital sales data soon, but that is not the case for now, and these sales reflect only physical software sales.

1. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
2. FIFA 19
3. Red Dead Redemption 2
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
5. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
6. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
7. Battlefield 5
8. Grand Theft Auto 5
9. Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy
10. Forza Horizon 4

The latest weekly sales charts for physical video game software sales in the UK, as provided by Gfk Chart-Track, are in, and FIFA 19 has reclaimed the top spot for the week ending January 5. That, of course, means that Red Dead Redemption 2 has slipped down one place from last week to the second position. Both games, however, also saw a drop in week-on-week sales, with a 64 per cent drop for Red Dead Redemption 2, and a 62 per cent drop for FIFA 19, as reported by GamesIndustry.

The rest of the top 5 is unchanged from last week, with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and Battlefield 5 retaining their places at the third, fourth, and fifth positions respectively. Forza Horizon 4 is also unmoved at sixth place, though Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has moved up one place to take the seventh spot. Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy also moves up from ninth to eighth place.

Spyro Reignited Trilogy has dropped from seventh place to the ninth position, while Assassin’s Creed Odyssey moves up from eleventh place to take the final spot in the top 10, edging out Spider-Man in the process.

While these charts account only for physical sales of games, as has always been the case, GamesIndustry also reports that digital sales shall soon be included for combined sales charts as well. But while data provider ISFE/B2Boost puts the data together, we will be receiving separate digital and physical charts for a while in the coming weeks.

You can check out the full top 10 below.

1. FIFA 19
2. Red Dead Redemption 2
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
4. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
5. Battlefield 5
6. Forza Horizon 4
7. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
8. Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy
9. Spyro Reignited Trilogy
10. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

The Holiday season has boosted sales for a number of games in the UK this week, as per the latest sales data for physical copies sold of games, provided by Gfk Chart-Track. Though the games in the top 10 this week are the same as last week (with some of them switching around in positions), GamesIndustry reports an increase in sales for many of them.

Red Dead Redemption 2 retains its spot at the top of the perch, with a 26 per cent increase in week-on-week sales, with FIFA 19 trailing close behind, having seen an increase in sale of its own of 45 per cent week-on-week. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s position also remains unchanged this week, coming in at number 3, with the game now having sold over a million copies in the UK.

Thanks to a discount in prices, Battlefield 5 saw a 55 per cent increase in sales, jumping up to fifth place in the charts. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is one of the few games in the top 10 to see a decrease in sales, falling to 5th place with a 24 per cent week-on-week drop. It has, however, overtaken Splatoon 2 in terms of LTD sales already, with just three weeks on the market, and in the process become the Switch’s fifth highest selling game in the UK.

Spider-Man saw a substantial increase of 62 per cent in sales, and is now the fourth best selling new game released this year in the UK. On the Microsoft side of things, Forza Horizon 4 is also performing strongly, with a 35 per cent increase.

You can get the full top 10 below.

1. Red Dead Redemption 2
2. FIFA 19
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
4. Battlefield 5
5. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
6. Spyro Reignited Trilogy
7. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
8. Spider-Man
9. Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy
10. Forza Horizon 4

The Gfk Chart-Track charts for physical software sales in UK for the week ending December 8 are in, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has, predictably enough, shot right to the top of the table. But not only is it the highest selling game in the UK for the week (which is something most of us would have predicted anyway, especially given its strong performances even prior to launch), it has also immediately become the fastest selling Super Smash Bros. game of all time, as well as the fastest selling Nintendo Switch game to date.

That means that it’s outpaced the combined launch sales of Pokemon Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! as well. As GamesIndustry reports, launch sales for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate are 302 per cent higher than the sales Super Smash Bros. for Wii U saw at launch, and 233 per cent more than the launch sales for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS. Going further back, its launch sales are 62.5 per cent up from those of Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii. All of this, of course, is only considering physical sales, since Gfk Chart-Track doesn’t track digital downloads, which means that total sales for the game are even higher.

FIFA 19, thanks to the strong performance of Smash, has moved down from its pole position last week, and is now placed on number three, while Red Dead Redemption 2 retains its second spot. Darksiders 3, which debuted at 32 last week, isn’t in the charts at all in its second week on the market, which is cause for concern for the series. Meanwhile, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe saw a 45 per cent week-on-week boost in sales, and shot up from ninth place last week to fifth place this week.

Meanwhile, another new debutant in the list is Just Cause 4, which is placed at number 6. Its launch sales are worse than the launch sales for Just Cause 3, which debuted in third place when it released. Physical sales for Just Cause 4 are down 61.5 per cent from Just Cause 3, which also means that these are the series’ slowest sales in the UK, ever. Once again, though, digital sales are not counted here, so counting those, it may well have outpaced some of its predecessors.

You can check out the full top 10 below.

1. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
2. Red Dead Redemption 2
3. FIFA 19
4. Battlefield 5
5. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
6. Just Cause 4
7. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
8. Spyro Reignited Trilogy
9. Pokemon Let’s Go, Pikachu!
10. Fortnite: Deep Freeze Bundle

The latest UK sales charts for the week ending December 1st are in, courtesy of Gfk Chart-Track, and FIFA 19 is still in the top spot. This is despite ample competition from Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, which are in second and third place respectively. The football title has also seen a 39 percent drop in sales week-on-week.

According to GamesIndustry.biz, Red Dead Redemption 2 sales were down 24 percent, while Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 sales dropped by 64 percent. Overall spending in the UK during Black Friday week wasn’t too shabby, with more than one million physical games sold and £32.6 million generated in revenue. Battlefield 5 currently sits in fourth place, with sales having dropped 48 percent.

THQ Nordic’s Darksiders 3 debuted at 32nd place in the charts, selling 84 percent less than Darksiders 2 and more than 70 percent less than the first game. Keep in mind that digital sales aren’t included in the results, so overall sales could be higher. Check out GamingBolt’s review of Darksiders 3 to learn more about it.

The top ten best-selling games for the week ending December 1st in the UK are as follow:

1. FIFA 19
2. Red Dead Redemption 2
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
4. Battlefield 5
5. Forza Horizon 4
6. Spyro Reignited Trilogy
7. Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu
8. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
9. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
10. Fortnite: Deep Freeze Bundle

Nintendo’s Pokemon Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! might have the most sales combined in the UK for the week ending November 17th. However, it was actually Activision’s Spyro Reignited Trilogy which was on top of sales charts. This is good news for the publisher once again- its last major remastered trilogy was Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and that went on to have a highly successful run on top.

Red Dead Redemption 2 fell to second place, but the most interesting developments surround Fallout 76 and Hitman 2. As per GamesIndustry.biz, Fallout 76 debuted in third place, with physical sales down 82.4 percent compared to its predecessor Fallout 4. However, thanks to the game’s $59.99 retail price, it was actually the highest revenue generating title in the UK retail for last week. Since Spyro Reignited Trilogy is priced at $39.99, it ranked third in revenue.

Hitman 2’s launch week physical sales were down 90 percent compared to Hitman Absolution, and it debuted in tenth place. Since Hitman (2016) debuted as a digital-only release, comparing its launch week sales to the sequel is thus difficult, since digital sales are not tracked by Gfk Chart-Track. This could mean Hitman 2’s low physical sales are offset by higher digital sales in the UK. We’ll have to wait for more sales data to know for sure.

Gfk Chart-Track’s top ten best-selling titles in the UK for the week ending November 17th can be seen below:

1. Spyro Reignited Trilogy
2. Red Dead Redemption 2
3. Fallout 76
4. Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu
5. FIFA 19
6. Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee
7. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
8. Fortnite: Deep Freeze Bundle
9. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
10. Hitman 2

The Nintendo Switch had a pretty good week in the UK. According to the latest sales data from Gfk Chart-Track for the week ending November 17th, Pokemon Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! debuted in fourth and sixth respectively in the physical retail sales chart. Combined sales for the two would make them the most successful titles of the week, however. Digital sales aren’t factored into the equation, so actual sales will likely be higher.

Along with being a success in its own right, Pokemon Let’s Go helped boost sales for other Switch titles. As per GamesIndustry.biz, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sales were up 94 percent. Super Mario Party and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild saw an increase in sales by 25 percent and 52 percent respectively. Even Just Dance 2019 saw a 465 percent sales leap thanks to the Switch version, though its inclusion in a hardware bundle that also had Pokemon Let’s Go definitely helped.

Launch week physical sales for Pokemon Let’s Go, however, are down 60 percent next to Pokemon Sun and Moon (2016) for the Nintendo 3DS. Compared to Pokemon X and Y, which released in 2013, sales are down 5 percent. There are a fair number of reasons for this, such as stock issues (leading to some pre-orders not being fulfilled) and a smaller install base compared to the 3DS Pokemon titles. It’s worth waiting to see how many more Switch owners react to the games over the next month, especially when the Christmas season is in full swing.

It will also be interesting to see how Pokemon GO players react. The NPD Group recently reported almost 15 percent of the mobile game’s players in the US were interested in purchasing a Switch to play Pokemon Let’s Go. Since the latter implements quite a few elements from the mobile title, it could further help mobile players make the transition more easily.

The latest UK retail sales charts from Gfk Chart-Track are in, and Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 is still on top. This marks the third week since its debut in first place. Even as sales are down 53 percent week-on-week, Red Dead Redemption 2 sales still account for more than 30 percent of the market, as per Games Industry.

Other titles are pretty much as you’d expect. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is still in second place, beating out FIFA 19 by a few hundred units. Forza Horizon 4, meanwhile, is still ahead of Spider-Man to claim fourth place. However, Insomniac’s open world action title saw its week-on-week sales remain the same, while the titles above it all witnessed declines.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is in sixth place, followed by Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, LEGO Harry Potter Collection, and LEGO DC Super-Villains. With this week seeing the release of Hitman 2 and Fallout 76, we could see a significant shake-up in the charts. Will they best Rockstar’s open world epic? Check back next week to find out.