Animal Crossing: New Horizons is once again no. 1
Animal Crossing: New Horizons achieves its third consecutive no. 1 in the British top maps.
The Nintendo Switch-exclusive spot achieves its place at the top despite a 24% drop week-on-week. This is another week where Switch has dominated the boxing game business in the UK, with Mario Kart 8: Deluxe at number 2 (sales 23%), Super Mario 3D World at number 8 (sales 3%), New Super Mario Bros U at number 9 (sales with 15%), and Ring Fit Adventure at number 10 (with 37%). There are ten Switch games in the top 20 best-selling games.
Ubisoft’s Just Dance 2021 holds number 3 despite a 29% drop in sales. This week, 87% of the game’s sales were on Nintendo Switch.
Switch appears to be the savior for retailers in the UK. For the first two weeks of 2021, game sales increased by 27.4% compared to the same period last year, and this is almost entirely due to games for Nintendo Switch (overall Switch games sales are 120% whore). PlayStation game sales are also slightly higher when we combine PS4 and PS5 sales together.
The only game in the Top Ten that increased week-on-week in sales was the ever-popular Grand Theft Auto 5, which rose four places to number 4 due to a 6% sales increase.
There’s only one new game in the cards this week, and it’s the first new game to beat the Top 40 of 2021. Five Nights At Freddy’s: Core Collection makes No.32, published by Maximum Games. 55% of its sales were on Nintendo Switch, 24% on PS4 and 21% on Xbox One.
Here is the GfK Top Ten for the week ending January 16:
| Last week | This week | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Animal crossing: new horizons |
| 3 | 2 | Mario Kart 8: Deluxe |
| 3 | 3 | Dans net 2021 |
| 8 | 4 | Grand Theft Auto 5 |
| 7 | 5 | Minecraft (switch) |
| 4 | 6 | FIFA 21 |
| 10 | 7 | Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War |
| 11 | 8 | Super Mario 3D All-Stars |
| 9 | 9 | New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe |
| 6 | 10 | Ring Fit Adventure |