Last week was another busy one with more major new releases hitting store shelves, a couple of which have found their way into the latest weekly charts for physical software sales in the UK. As shared by GamesIndustry’s Christopher Dring on Twitter, WWE 2K24 had a strong debut, taking the top spot in its first week on sale, with physical launch sales in the UK being 26 percent higher than what its predecessor managed in the region upon its release last year.
Fellow new release, Vanillaware and Atlus’ Unicorn Overlord, also debuted in the top 10, finding itself in the No. 7 position. Vanillaware-developed titles haven’t generally been the biggest, most mass market sellers, so a debut in seventh place may have been a decent one for the fantasy tactics RPG. 60 percent of its physical launch week sales came on the Nintendo Switch, 34 percent on PS5, and 5 percent on Xbox Series X.
Meanwhile, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, which saw somewhat underwhelming physical launch debut last week, fell down to No. 2, with its sales dropping 89 percent week-on-week. Though a second-week drop is far from unusual, Dring says an 89 percent drop is “on the higher side of normal.” The action RPG also saw a relatively weaker launch in Japan last week, by the series’ usually high standards.