Fire Emblem: Three Houses ranks first among the sales of games on physical media in the UK retail. This is an amazing result for a Japanese RPG. As a rule, games in this style and genre quickly drop out of the rating after an initial surge in consumer interest.
The Nintendo Switch exclusive saw a 60% drop in sales in its second week, but that's the usual figure for a second week on the market. Sales were helped by the arrival of additional runs of game drives in retail chains, as well as word of mouth following a positive critical reception.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses broke the series' UK records last week, selling twice as many as the series' last best-selling game, 2013's Fire Emblem: Awakening. This is an impressive result, but it also highlights what a challenging summer it has been for the shrinking physical media market. In seven months of this year, sales fell by 15% compared to 2018.
By the way, FIFA 19 lacked only 66 copies sold to climb to the top of the rankings this week: sales of the game jumped due to the onset of the new football season and retail discounts. Another game from EA Sports - Madden NFL 20 - entered this week's top ten, placing in 5th place.
But a rather weak cooperative shooter moved from second immediately to eighth position: sales of the game decreased by 61% compared to the starting week.
Top XNUMX according to UKIE/GfK statistics for the past week:
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses (1 last week);
- FIFA 19 (5);
- (3);
- (4);
- Madden NFL 20 (new);
- (7);
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (8)
- Wolfenstein: Youngblood (2);
- (12)
- Minecraft (11).
Source: 3dnews.ru