Games Industry Portal on sales of retail editions of games in the UK during the period from December 8 to December 14. returned to first place on the chart, but the struggle for leadership turned out to be intense.
Even a 10% drop in sales compared to . FIFA 20 lost its previous result of 41% and dropped to third place.
An unexpected contender for the leading position at the end of the week was . To gain a foothold in first place, the Jedi action movie from Respawn Entertainment lacked only 3 thousand copies.
EA's licensed game is reaping the benefits of the hype surrounding the upcoming Star Wars film The Rise of Skywalker. Sunrise". Sales of the game increased by 30% compared to last week, and if next time [the project] manages to repeat something similar (at the backdrop of the film premiere), for the first time in a long time, it might not be Call of Duty or FIFA that takes the Christmas crown.β - the Games Industry theorizes.
In fourth place on the chart is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, barely (the gap was only 2 thousand copies) ahead of . The third part of the adventures of the timid brother Mario is not selling as well as Pokemon Sword and Shield, but has already surpassed ΠΈ .
Returning to the top 40 (and even the top ten) were two games from the publishing house Bandai Namco - (9th place) and Project CARS 2 (10th place). Both projects were part of a bundle with the Xbox One console.
The top 10 in the UK retail chart for the period 8-14 December is as follows (last week's position in brackets):
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2)
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (4)
- FIFA 20 (1)
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (3)
- Luigi's Mansion 3 (7)
- Pokemon Sword (5)
- Just Dance 2020 (6)
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (13)
- Tekken 7 (return to chart)
- Project CARS 2 (return to chart)
Source: 3dnews.ru