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Here's a look at this week's top 40 in full, with platform breakdowns for all of the titles available on other consoles alongside the Switch:

Last Week​	This Week​	Game​	Platform Split​
NEW	1	Star Wars Outlaws
11	2	Hogwarts Legacy	Switch 43%, PS5 25%, PS4 23%, Xbox 6%
-	3	Elden Ring
-	4	Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
1	5	EA Sports FC 24	Switch 33%, PS4 30%, PS5 27%, Xbox 9%
2	6	Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
3	7	Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition
10	8	Marvel's Spider-Man 2
9	9	Minecraft
22	10	DC Justice League: Cosmic Chaos	PS4 40%, PS5 35%, Switch 23%, Xbox 2%
6	11	Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Edition
12	12	Animal Crossing: New Horizons
9	13	The Witcher III: Wild Hunt GOTY Edition	PC 62%, PS4 36%, Xbox 2%
-	14	Visions of Mana	PS5 82%, Xbox 13%, PS4 6%
13	15	Super Mario Bros. Wonder
20	16	WWE 2K24
15	17	Nintendo Switch Sports
16	18	Grand Theft Auto V
21	19	The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Complete Edition
-	20	Bluey: The Videogame	Switch 80%, PS5 10%, PS4 8%, Xbox 2%
-	21	Mad Max
NEW	22	Emio: The Smiling Man Famicom Detective Club
19	23	Luigi's Mansion 2 HD
23	24	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
34	25	The Last of Us Part II: Remastered
-	26	Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
30	27	Gran Turismo 7
25	28	God of War Ragnarok
-	29	Cyberpunk 2077
24	30	Hitman: World of Assassination
-	31	Batman: Arkham Knight
-	32	Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
32	33	Wreckfest	PS5 98%, Switch 2%
6	34	Mafia Trilogy
29	35	Sonic Superstars
37	36	Transformers Battlegrounds	Switch 98%, PS4 2%
-	37	Batman Arkham Collection
36	38	Pokémon Violet
33	39	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
35	40	Mario Party Superstars

[Sales Data Compiled by GfK]

UK Charts: Star Wars Outlaws Bags Number One While Emio Flounders

Surprise, niche game is niche

www.nintendolife.com

 

[Mownoc]

Considering outlaws had the largest marketing budget in Ubisoft history.... Uh oh. Skull & Bones, Avatar, Xdefiant, this... Ubisoft are in a very bad place. If AC Shadows doesn't perform...

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Armored Core VI

Also the state of those Xbox %s, either those games are on GamePass or Xbox has completely fallen off a cliff in the UK.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Armored Core VI

Also the state of those Xbox %s, either those games are on GamePass or Xbox has completely fallen off a cliff in the UK.

Well, this is a physical chart and anywhere around 50% of the userbase is DIGITAL only without a choice. Then you have the standard percentage getting digital on XSX.

The most interesting thing I see on this chart and again it's only physical, is what a bomb Visions of Mana is. And despite this being physical only, I think it also reflects the naiviety that Xbox releases are somehow going to save Square Enix.

 

[emivita]

Hogwarts Legacy has some crazy legs. It's gonna reach 30 million copies by the end of the year.

 

[The Cockatrice]

I imagine they made a lot of money from Uplay+ tho, I know a lot of ppl went that route instead. Ubisoft has always made more money from actual subs and microtransactions than full game sales, it's why they keep adding MTX in singleplayer games. Not defending them, but from a business pov, it works for them.

 

[Flabagast]

Where is wukong ?

 

[Novaex]

Looks like another Ubisoft game that underperformed. Also fits with Ubisoft's stock tanking over 7% since release of the game.
Also crazy that they lost 65% of their value in the last 5 years. Ubisoft has become the symbol for mediocrity and with each new game they prove that again.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Where is wukong ?

These are physical/boxed charts so Wukong won't appear in them.

 

[Jaybe]

Huge failure for Star Wars Outlaws.

Outlaws sales are 55% lower than Jedi Survivor.
Jedi Survivor sales were 35% lower than Jedi Fallen Order.
Star Wars as an IP has tanked

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is this week's UK boxed No.1, and the second biggest game launch of the year.

However, the game's opening week's sales are 35% lower than what its predecessor, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, managed. This chart is only boxed sales, and although Fallen Order was only released in 2019, digital accelerated quite a bit during the pandemic. Therefore, the comparison may not be quite so negative when the full data is in later in the week.

 

[AJUMP23]

Are they going to have to start laying people off? I will probably get this game on sale.

 

[Mr Moose]

Where is wukong ?

We don't have digital data yet.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Ubisoft has become the symbol for mediocrity and with each new game they prove that again.

Apart from the early PS3/360 days they’ve always been about mediocrity.

 

[jm89]

 

[Jaybe]

Armored Core VI

Also the state of those Xbox %s, either those games are on GamePass or Xbox has completely fallen off a cliff in the UK.

It’s the latter.

 

[Mr Moose]

Missing data?

 

[Knightsoftheround]

Lol when are people finally going to realise that UK physical sales mean absolutely nothing. The country is 65 percent digital and is growing every year.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

I'm sure that Outlaws will soft-flop, but my god Dring is firmly at the Clown territory now. Not his first mishap with data.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Hogwarts Legacy

Switch 43%, PS5 25%, PS$4 23%, Xbox 6%

Never expected this to perform better on Playstation platforms based on physical media alone tbh.

That said...i feel like this decade we have to much stuff flopping, it's kinda crazy.

I feel like the market is stuck with free to play stuff, the same franchises over and over and not much more happening. Hogwarts is a crazy result but the game is like a year and half. The Witcher 3 was just top 10 last week.

This shows two things: People buy physical media for at least the most established franchises or when there's a huge sale. (Armored Core, etc).

I would love to know how much that #40 actually sold. I have a feeling most of GAF would be surprised. by how low it actually is.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Looks like another Ubisoft game that underperformed. Also fits with Ubisoft's stock tanking over 7% since release of the game.
Also crazy that they lost 65% of their value in the last 5 years. Ubisoft has become the symbol for mediocrity and with each new game they prove that again.

It's unbelievable what a risk these licensed games are.

A lot of people rag on Microsoft for turning Marvel down and similarly don't give enough credit for Sony not only saying yes to Marvel and Spider-Man, but giving Insomniac the resources to make it. They're taking a massive risk in doubling down on Wolverine.

I think the industry may go through a period where we see a reset as it relates to licensed IP.

If the next Assassin's Creed bombs, it's going to be REALLY bad for ubisoft and probably the industry as a whole.

 

[geary]

SW: Outlaws is a new IP, while SW: Survivor is a sequel for a well received game from a respectable developer in the industry. Not to mention different genres.
Apples and Oranges...

 

[SmokedMeat]

Regardless of how it winds up selling at launch, it hit number one.

I don’t think physical sales are any kind of useful barometer either since it’s slowly dying to digital.

 

[Doctor Hades]

Armored Core VI

Also the state of those Xbox %s, either those games are on GamePass or Xbox has completely fallen off a cliff in the UK.

Don't most Xbox discs just have a small launcher that downloads the game anyway? I'm pretty sure the last couple of games I bought, one of them might have been Halo Infinite, just had a 100 MB launcher. It's why I stopped buying physical Xbox Series X games over 18 months ago, although I no longer subscribe to GamePass either as I cancelled that back in May. I'll be buying the new Indiana Jones games on Steam for my PC.

 

[Sethbacca]

The people who are actually playing the game seem to be mostly liking it based on the other Outlaws threads. I think positive word of mouth will end up resulting in decent sales even if they aren’t stellar.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Don't most Xbox discs just have a small launcher that downloads the game anyway? I'm pretty the last couple of games I bought, one of them might have been Halo Infinite, just had a 100 MB launcher. It's why I stopped buying physical Xbox Series X games over 18 months ago, although I no longer subscribe to GamePass either as I cancelled that back in May. I'll be buying the new Indiana Jones games on Steam for my PC.

If true then that’s f***ing dire for preservation.

I don’t mind day 1 patches for minor issues, but for there to be nothing playable on the disc is ridiculous.

 

[ZehDon]

I think this says more about how the public feels about Star Wars than it does about the game itself. Disney have driven this IP into the fucking ground.

 

[Three]

Seems the (copy pasted?) table has some minor issues but nice work nonetheless Thick Thighs Save Lives

"Blue: The Videogame" is meant to be "Bluey: The videogame". Some cartoon that my nieces love. There is also a random dollar sign in the platform splits.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Seems the (copy pasted?) table has some minor issues but nice work nonetheless Thick Thighs Save Lives

"Blue: The Videogame" is meant to be "Bluey: The videogame". Some cartoon that my nieces love. There is also a random dollar sign in the platform splits.

Good eye. Table should be fixed now.

 

[Doctor Hades]

If true then that’s f***ing dire for preservation.

I don’t mind day 1 patches for minor issues, but for there to be nothing playable on the disc is ridiculous.

Some Xbox Series X games I have bought have just shipped in a plastic case with a code and no disc. Assassin's Creed: Dawn of Ragnarok for example. What a waste of packaging that was.

 

[Woopah]

SE were probably hoping Switch 2 would be out in time for VoM. Would have helped a lot but maybe not enough to save the team.

I'm sure that Outlaws will soft-flop, but my god Dring is firmly at the Clown territory now. Not his first mishap with data.

Dring doesn't actually work on the data. GfK does that I believe.

Hogwarts Legacy

Switch 43%, PS5 25%, PS$4 23%, Xbox 6%

Never expected this to perform better on Playstation platforms based on physical media alone tbh.

Why not?

SW: Outlaws is a new IP, while SW: Survivor is a sequel for a well received game from a respectable developer in the industry. Not to mention different genres.
Apples and Oranges...

It's a new franchise but it's not a new IP.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Men are speaking with their wallets. The silent majority.

 

[poodaddy]

Considering outlaws had the largest marketing budget in Ubisoft history.... Uh oh. Skull & Bones, Avatar, Xdefiant, this... Ubisoft are in a very bad place. If AC Shadows doesn't perform...

Worst publisher in the industry by far, they make EA seem downright innovative in comparison. Be glad to see the back of em.

 

[Spyxos]

I imagine they made a lot of money from Uplay+ tho, I know a lot of ppl went that route instead. Ubisoft has always made more money from actual subs and microtransactions than full game sales, it's why they keep adding MTX in singleplayer games. Not defending them, but from a business pov, it works for them.

You could also get Jedi Survivor day 1 on ea play pro.

 

[Roberts]

Armored Core VI

Also the state of those Xbox %s, either those games are on GamePass or Xbox has completely fallen off a cliff in the UK.

We just dont buy physical copies anymore. From my experience: all my xbox friends have moved to digital 6-7 years ago while my ps bros still occassionally buy discs. Have no clue why it happens.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Regardless of how it winds up selling at launch, it hit number one.

I don’t think physical sales are any kind of useful barometer either since it’s slowly dying to digital.

Positioning on a chart doesn't mean anything. There haven't been any major new releases recently. Not sure how you could make a statement like this.

 

[Physiognomonics]

And the licensing costs of Star Wars...

 

[Saber]

This could means its legs are severly damage and it won't score high on subsequent months.
At least Hogwarts and Elden Ring still kicking, thats what matters.

 

[blue velvet]

GT7 is still charting in the top 30

 

[Boss Mog]

Good.

 

[DaGwaphics]

We'll see what the final numbers are. It doesn't seem unreasonable to think that the sequel of a generally well liked game did bigger numbers than a completely new entry. Especially given the buzz around Outlaws hasn't been flawless.

 

[adamsapple]

And the licensing costs of Star Wars...

Physical only data and also incomplete.

Ubisofts games are too big and mass marketed to be commercial failures.

 

[Roufianos]

Lol when are people finally going to realise that UK physical sales mean absolutely nothing. The country is 65 percent digital and is growing every year.

Does your majesty have any information to share with us stupid peasants which might indicate that Outlaws will have a higher digital attach rate than Jedi Survivor?

 

[Physiognomonics]

Physical only data and also incomplete.

Ubisofts games are too big and mass marketed to be commercial failures.

Spider-man costed 100 million to Sony. How much do you think cost Star Wars and how many copies will they need to regroup their costs?

 

[avin]

Can the people making these posts perhaps also use retrospective data for other games to give us some idea of whether these initial UK boxed release sales are a decent predictor of anything at all, really? It would make these threads more interesting, and potentially useful.

avin

 

[King Dazzar]

Not good when Janky Jedi is out performing you.

 

[ElFenomeno]

God damn...Hogwarts Legacy is still killing trans people.

 

[Jaybe]

Can the people making these posts perhaps also use retrospective data for other games to give us some idea of whether these initial UK boxed release sales are a decent predictor of anything at all, really? It would make these threads more interesting, and potentially useful.

avin

Are you stupid or just blind? There’s a like for like comparison to the last AAA Star Wars game and the studio’s last game.

 

[The Cockatrice]

You could also get Jedi Survivor day 1 on ea play pro.

True, but the protagonist is a white male. Gamers want to own that despite what media and journos are saying. It was also a sequel to an already good game.

 

[Morrie’s wig shop]

They give you every number except the amount it actually sold, is there a reason for that and what are we talking here several hundred or a few thousand?

 

[kazuyamishima]

Jedi survivor did around 55k, so outlaws is at 25k.

Also, Outlaws did lower than Avatar in France.

You could also get Jedi Survivor day 1 on ea play pro.

EA Play Pro is only available on PC, Ubisoft + is on PC + Xbox…. But the latter mmmm….