Tears of the Kingdom, FIFA 23 and Hogwarts Legacy in the leaders of the British retail chart over the past week
The game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for the third time in a row took first place in the Retail Chart of Great Britain.
Nintendo games fell by 50% per week, but it is still confidently ahead of FIFA 23. She approaches the sales of Hogwarts Legacy and becomes the best -selling game of the year (at the moment). This is only in the boxed version, given the digital sales, then, most likely, Hogwarts Legacy will still lead.
Most games have fallen in sales this week. FIFA 23 ranks second, sales decreased by 3% compared to the previous week, as the premier league season is coming to an end. Hogwarts Legacy – No. 3 (sales decreased by 13%), Mario Kart 8: Deluxe rose to 4th place (despite the fall of sales by 5%), and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor sank to 5th place (falling 24%).
The highest new box release in the charts is Lord of the Rings: Gollum on No. 6. This is a weak start for the game that received negative critical reviews this week. Nevertheless, its sales in the physical market is slightly higher than that of Lego 2K Drive last week.
70% of Gollum boxed sales was on PS5, 20% on Xbox and 10% on PS4. These are purely boxed sales, and due to the popularity of Xbox as a console for digital download, it should be expected that the division of sales on the consoles will be a little closer.
If we talk about the new LEGO game last week, then the racing game fell 13 place after a fall in sales by 41% compared to the previous week. Dead Island 2 continues to be held in the top ten in 10th place, despite the drop in sales by 18% compared to the previous week, and Minecraft Legends is still in 11th place (sales fell by 17%).
Finally, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild continues to be popular with Tears of the Kingdom. The 2017 Nintendo Switch game rose to No. 7 this week (sales decreased by 5% compared to the previous week). This suggests that Tears of the Kingdom successfully attracts new players in the Zelda series.