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Top 5 Retail + Download for Week 46, 2020
October 2020
The football game was comfortably the biggest selling title of the month. Digital and physical FIFA sales are down about 9.4% for the first four weeks compared with last year's FIFA 20, however, it's worth noting that this is a console transition year, with an updated version of the game set for December.
No.2 belonged to another EA game in the form of Star Wars: Squadrons, which narrowly beat out Activision's Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, which had to settle for third spot.
Despite launching right at the end of the month, the fourth biggest selling game of October across the regions was Watch Dogs: Legion from Ubisoft.
The next highest charting new game is Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit at No.18. The Nintendo Switch game was only available in a box as it requires a remote control kart to play. Meanwhile, the new Dark Pictures game, Little Hope, just misses out on the Top 20 at No.22. The game was released right at the end of the month in time for Halloween.
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In terms of games hardware, just under 750,000 games consoles were sold across the EMEAA region. That is a drop on the 795,000 consoles sold during October 2019, although that's due to a significant drop in performance for PS4 and Xbox One - which is to be expected with the launch of PS5 and Xbox Series S/X in November.
Unsurprisingly, Nintendo Switch remains the dominant platform by quite some margin. Switch console sales are up by almost 77% in October 2020 compared with the same period last year.
United Kingdom:
Week 47 - Retail (Ukie / GfK)
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War may have missed out on the top spot in its debut week, but it made up for it in week t…
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War may have missed out on the top spot in its debut week, but it made up for it in week two. The Activision shooter claims No.1 in the latest UK boxed charts, despite a 27% drop in sales week-on-week.
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No.2 in the boxed charts is FIFA 21. The football game has been discounted as part of early Black Friday sales, and as a result it surged 121% in sales week-on-week.
Down in third place is the PlayStation exclusive Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The game was one of the key launch titles for PlayStation 5, which also launched last week. We don't have the console hardware sales available, but retailers told us last week that they expect PS5 to be one of the biggest console launches in UK history.
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All of this means that Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Valhalla loses its No.1 spot and falls all the way to No.4 after a 70% drop in sales week-on-week. The game was a massive hit last week, with physical sales double that of its predecessor (Assassin's Creed Odyssey), and digital sales were up more than 200%.
In terms of new releases, there are a couple of new games in the charts this week. The highest charting title is Fortnite: The Last Laugh Bundle. This bundle includes in-game currency for Fortnite, alongside costumes and more extras inspired by Batman villains (including The Joker). The bundle sold best on Xbox (which combines Xbox One and the Xbox Series machines) representing 32% of sales. Nintendo Switch accounted for 30% of sales, PS4 accounted for 29% and PS5 9%.
At No.6 is the new Nintendo Switch game, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. The game has been heavily promoted as a prequel to the hit Zelda game, Breath of the Wild, so it's no surprise to see sales significantly up over the previous Hyrule Warriors Switch title (launch sales are nearly 324% bigger). However, it's not quite at the level of traditional Zelda games. Compared with last year's The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening remake, launch sales are 43% lower. Hyrule Warriors gameplay is based on the Japanese action series Dynasty Warriors, which doesn't sell in huge numbers in the UK. Once again, digital data is not available from Nintendo.
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Nintendo Switch boxed game sales last week are up 52% week-on-week.
To complete our Top Ten analysis, Ubisoft's Watch Dogs: Legion is at No.7, rising three places after a 149% jump in sales. Like with FIFA 21, this was due to early Black Friday discounting.
Other big Black Friday risers include Marvel Avengers at No.12 (sales up 234%), Star Wars Squadrons at No.14 (sales up 178%) Spyro Reignited Trilogy at No.21 (sales up 276%), Fallout 76 at No.31 (sales up 248%) and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled at No. 33 (up 123%).
Elsewhere, the Ultimate edition of Mortal Kombat 11 debuts at No.30, thanks primarily to the PS5 edition (66% of sales) followed by PS4 (15%), Xbox (14%) and then Switch (5%). Last week's new dancing game - Just Dance 2021 - drops from No.11 to No.15, but the game continues to perform very well, with sales down just 1% over the previous week. In fact, there are two Just Dance games in the Top 20, with last year's game at No.20. The older title performed well thanks to a Nintendo Switch bundle available at Amazon.
Finally, Codemasters' Dirt 5 has broken back into the charts at No.28. The racing game managed No.38 in its first week, but failed to chart in its second. It achieves its highest position so far thanks to the launch of the PS5 version, which accounted for 72% of the game's sales this week.
01 (02) CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR (ACTIVISION)
02 (04) FIFA 21 (EA SPORTS)
03 (03) MARVEL'S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES (SONY COMPUTER ENT.)
04 (01) ASSASSIN'S CREED VALHALLA (UBISOFT)
05 (NE)
FORTNITE: THE LAST LAUGH BUNDLE (WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE)
06 (NE)
HYRULE WARRIORS: AGE OF CALAMITY (NINTENDO)
07 (10) WATCH DOGS: LEGION (UBISOFT)
08 (05) ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS (NINTENDO)
09 (08) MARIO KART 8 DELUXE (NINTENDO)
10 (09) MINECRAFT (NINTENDO)
11 (07) SUPER MARIO 3D ALL-STARS (NINTENDO)
12 (18) MARVEL'S AVENGERS (SQUARE ENIX)
13 (12) RING FIT ADVENTURE (NINTENDO)
14 (25) STAR WARS: SQUADRONS (EA GAMES)
15 (11) JUST DANCE 2021 (UBISOFT)
16 (19) 51 WORLDWIDE GAMES (NINTENDO)
17 (06) DEMON'S SOULS (SONY COMPUTER ENT.)
18 (15) MINECRAFT DUNGEONS (MOJANG)
19 (14) GRAND THEFT AUTO V (ROCKSTAR)
20 (37) JUST DANCE 2020 (UBISOFT)
21 (RE) SPYRO REIGNITED TRILOGY (ACTIVISION)
22 (22) LEGO HARRY POTTER COLLECTION (WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE)
23 (21) LUIGI'S MANSION 3 (NINTENDO)
24 (26) NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. U DELUXE (NINTENDO)
25 (13) SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE (SONY COMPUTER ENT.)
26 (24) SUPER MARIO ODYSSEY (NINTENDO)
27 (23) CRASH BANDICOOT 4: IT'S ABOUT TIME (ACTIVISION)
28 (RE) DIRT 5 (CODEMASTERS)
29 (28) THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD (NINTENDO)
30 (NE)
MORTAL KOMBAT 11 ULTIMATE (WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE)
31 (RE) FALLOUT 76 (BETHESDA SOFTWORKS)
32 (34) SUPER SMASH BROS. ULTIMATE (NINTENDO)
33 (RE) CRASH TEAM RACING NITRO-FUELED (ACTIVISION)
34 (RE) FIFA 20 (EA SPORTS)
35 (27) POKEMON SWORD (NINTENDO)
36 (33) SUPER MARIO PARTY (NINTENDO)
37 (30) MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020 (NINTENDO)
38 (RE) JUMANJI: THE VIDEO GAME (OUTRIGHT GAMES)
39 (32) RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 (ROCKSTAR)
40 (RE) CRASH BANDICOOT N.SANE TRILOGY (ACTIVISION)
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Week 46 - Digital
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War had a huge first week as a digital download in the UK.Download launch sales are up alm…
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War had a huge first week as a digital download in the UK.
Download launch sales are up almost 39% compared with last year's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare release, according to the latest GSD download report.
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Despite the digital success, when combining digital and physical together, the new Call of Duty's sales are still down over 16% compared with last year's entry. It's worth remembering, of course, that a free-to-play Call of Duty battle royale game was released earlier this year, and it continues to be a big success, which may have impacted sales. In addition, PC data isn't included.
Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Valhalla is one of just a few new games that have been released in recent months that sold better as a physical release than a digital one. Even so, digital download sales for Valhalla are more than 200% higher than the last game in the franchise, 2018's Assassin's Creed Odyssey. In fact, the first week digital download sales alone for Valhalla are more than what digital and physical did combined for Odyssey. The Ubisoft game has been a phenomenal success, and its position as one of the main Xbox Series X/S launch title appears to have paid off.
In fact, because of the launch of the new Xbox consoles, both Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War were downloaded most on Microsoft's consoles over PlayStation 4, which is not something we would see in a typical week considering the higher PS4 install base in the UK. 55% of Call of Duty's download sales were on Xbox, while almost 58% of Assassin's Creed's digital sales were on Microsoft's machines.
One notable difference in the digital charts vs the physical charts is the absence of PS5 games. The PlayStation 5 has only just launched in the UK, and although PS5 physical games were available to buy last week, they were obviously unavailable to download. Even so, Spider-Man: Miles Morales was still the No.3 game in the digital download charts due to the PS4 version of the game. This version of the game narrowly sold more as a download than it did as a boxed release.
01 (NE)
CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
02 (NE)
ASSASSIN'S CREED VALHALLA (UBISOFT)
03 (NE)
MARVEL'S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES (SONY COMPUTER ENT.)
01 (04) FIFA 21 (EA SPORTS)
05 (03) GRAND THEFT AUTO 5 (ROCKSTAR GAMES)
06 (02) WATCH DOGS LEGION (UBISOFT)
07 (10) MONOPOLY PLUS (UBISOFT)
08 (04) NEED FOR SPEED: HOT PURSUIT - REMASTERED (EA GAMES)
09 (NE)
YAKUZA: LIKE A DRAGON (SEGA)
10 (06) RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 (ROCKSTAR GAMES)
France:
Week 46 2020 - Individual Formats (Value)
01 (NE)
[PS4] ASSASSIN'S CREED VALHALLA (UBISOFT)
02 (NE)
[PS4] CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
03 (NE)
[XBO / XSX|S] ASSASSIN'S CREED VALHALLA (UBISOFT)
04 (NE)
[XBO / XSX|S] CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
05 (01) [NSW] ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS (NINTENDO)
Germany:
October - All Formats (Units)
Note:
Game Sales Awards October 2020 (Germany):
FIFA 21 - 500.000+ (NEW)
Super Mario 3D All-Stars - 200.000+
Star Wars: Squadrons - 100.000+ (NEW)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 - 100.000+
„EA SPORTS FIFA 21“ erhält einen game Sales Award Sonderpreis „Super Mario 3D All-Stars” wird mit einem game Sales Award in Platin ausgezeichnet „Star Wars: Squadrons“ und „Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2“ bekommen einen game Sales Award in Gold Berlin, 17. November 2020 – Im Oktober kann der game...
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Italy:
Week 46, 2020 - Individual Formats Retail (Units)
Switzerland:
Week 47, 2020 - All Formats (Units)
Australia:
Week 47, 2020 - All Formats (Units)
New Zealand:
Week 47, 2020 - All Formats (Units)
Spain:
October 2020 - Individual Formats Retail (Units)
01 (NE) [PS4] FIFA 21 (EA SPORTS)
02 (NE) [XBO] FIFA 21 (EA SPORTS)
03 (04) [NSW] ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS (NINTENDO)
04 (01) [NSW] SUPER MARIO 3D ALL-STARS (NINTENDO)
05 (07) [NSW] MARIO KART 8 DELUXE (NINTENDO)
06 (NE) [PS4] CRASH BANDICOOT 4: IT'S ABOUT TIME (ACTIVISION)
07 (08) [NSW] RING FIT ADVENTURE (NINTENDO)
08 (06) [NSW] MINECRAFT: NINTENDO SWITCH EDITION (MOJANG)
09 (NE) [NSW] FIFA 21 (EA SPORTS)
10 (NE) [PS4] STAR WARS: SQUADRONS (EA GAMES)
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