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May UK charts: God of War remains at No.1, Nintendo continues to go from strength to strength

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https://www.mcvuk.com/business/may-...ndo-continues-to-go-from-strength-to-strength

Despite a trio of strong games having launched last week, God of War wasn't threatened in the monthly charts, and managed to keep its top spot in May. Sales for Sony Santa Monica's hit were only down 55 per cent month-on-month, a very healthy drop.
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Between Donkey Kong, Hyrule Warriors and usual top sellers like Mario Kart, Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild, the market share for the Switch increased month-on-month, reaching 18.1 per cent in units, against 12.5 per cent in April. In terms of value, the Switch was 23.8 per cent of the market in May (against 14.8 per cent in April) overtaking the Xbox One and its 21.3 per cent.
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Sony remained the top publisher in May, with Nintendo being a very (very) close second.
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Meanwhile, another PS4 exclusive, Detroit: Become Human, made it to No.5 despite only having been on shelves for two days when GfK closed its report on May 26th. Meanwhile, Xbox One exclusive State of Decay 2, having released on May 22nd, debuted at No.6.
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UK's top ten games for May 2018:
  1. God of War
  2. FIFA 18
  3. Far Cry 5
  4. Donkey Kong County: Tropical Freeze
  5. Detroit: Become Human
  6. State of Decay 2
  7. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
  8. Fallout 4
  9. Lego Marvel Superheroes 2
  10. Dark Souls Remastered
 
Zoantharia

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I don't follow the UK market very closely... quite surprised to see Nintendo overtake Xbox in market share, even if it was a close fight
 
Gamer17

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Who is the other 55 percent of market?
23.8 Nintendo and 21.3 MS

Is it Sony ?
 
Sylmaron

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Legs.
 
Phendrift

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Oh wow, Nintendo overtook MS.

Hopefully Switch allows them to keep building a stronger base in the UK, they need it.
 
Ryng™

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Seriusly, if Switch does better than XB1 in UK i can't even imagine how things looks worldwide......
 

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Another top tier game from Sony. They are killing it these last few years. Plus some more God-tier games coming soon as well.
 
Braaier

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Mario Kart 8 still doing work. Damn!

Decent result for Detroit given it was only on shelves for a few days. I wonder if it'll be able to lead sales in June. Or if God of War will continue to truck along. I don't believe there are any major June releases that will compete
 
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Ryng Manuel Tolu said:
Seriusly, if Switch does better than XB1 in UK i can't even imagine how things looks worldwide......
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There is nothing to excite people into buying it right now. Switch & PS4 are on fire with promises of good things to come for the rest of the year.

Microsoft has Forza sometime later in the year, that's about it, E3 will be the impetus for people sitting on the fence with Xbox.
 

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Betty said:
There is nothing to excite people into buying it right now. Switch & PS4 are on fire with promises of good things to come for the rest of the year.

Microsoft has Forza sometime later in the year, that's about it, E3 will be the impetus for people sitting on the fence with Xbox.
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While this is true, Nintendo has had a quiet first half (there have been new releases, but nothing on the scale of Breath of the Wild, or Mario Kart), and Nintendo is traditionally weaker in the UK, while UK is one of Xbox's strongest territories. If nothing else, the inertial momentum of all of that would have kept Xbox ahead of Nintendo. I'm surprised that did not happen.
 
DriftingSpirit

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Braaier said:
Mario Kart 8 still doing work. Damn!

Decent result for Detroit given it was only on shelves for a few days. I wonder if it'll be able to lead sales in June. Or if God of War will continue to truck along. I don't believe there are any major June releases that will compete
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Yeah, basically nothing big coming out until September. Oh, just remembered Madden (Aren't they August releases?) but I don't know how they perform in UK.
 
Gnorman

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Isn't the market share purely for the month? Are people misreading that on purpose?
 

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I said before but Switch being popular is bad news for Xbox. They are going to get squeezed even further, pushed into 3rd place picking up even less scraps from the other two in terms of hardware and software sales.
 
Katana_Strikes

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DriftingSpirit said:
Yeah, basically nothing big coming out until September. Oh, just remembered Madden (Aren't they August releases?) but I don't know how they perform in UK.
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Poor. It charts but it doesn't set them alight or stay around for long.

Jurassic World is out this month which might do ok especially with the help of the film.
 
Kaako

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God of War showing how it's done, amazing legs and well deserved!
Nintendo also killing it, great stuff.
 
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