[UK] Nintendo Switch dominates in September (hardware +90% YoY. 32.3% of all physical games sold were Nintendo published, 41.7% for Switch)

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Nintendo Switch dominates in September | UK Monthly Charts

Over 1.07 million physical games were sold in the UK during September, according to GfK Entertainment.The top game of t…

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Super Mario 3D All Star

Super Mario All-Stars is the second fastest-selling Mario platform release in the series' history, just behind 2017's Super Mario Odyssey

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Switch software

Nintendo dominated the entire month. 32.3% of all physical games sold in the UK during September were Nintendo-published titles, while 41.7% were for the Nintendo Switch console.

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Hardware

And Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console. Overall, 146,000 consoles were sold during September in the UK, according to GfK. That means, so far this year, 1.3 million games machines have been sold in the UK. That's a rise of 34.2% over the same period in 2019. Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch are all seeing growth year-to-date, with Switch sales in particular up 90% compared with the same period in 2019.

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Top 20 best selling physical software, September 2020

1 Super Mario 3D All-Stars
2 Marvel's Avengers
3 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2
4 Animal Crossing: New Horizons
5 Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
6 Minecraft (Switch)
7 Grand Theft Auto 5
8 NBA 2K21
9 PGA Tour 2K21
10 Ring Fit Adventure
11 Ghost of Tsushima
12 Minecraft Dungeons
13 FIFA 20
14 Super Mario Odyssey
15 Mafia: Definitive Edition
16 EA Sports UFC 4
17 F1 2020
18 Crash Bandicoot: N.Sane Trilogy
19 Paper Mario: The Origami King
20 LEGO Harry Potter Collection

 

[Deleted member 36708]

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[Liliana]

+90% YoY, Jesus Nintendo.

 

[MouldyK]

4 out of 20 games featuring Jumpman!

Mario Time!

 

[808s & Villainy]

90% YoY
wtf

 

[Convasse]

Good GRIEF. +90% YoY is nuts

 

[TechnicPuppet]

What can you say really. Domination.

 

[808s & Villainy]

4 out of 20 games featuring Jumpman!

Mario Time!

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[Deleted member 31092]

Switch has a realistic chance of surpassing PS4's best year in the UK too, graphic of hiska-kun

 

[MonadL]

I said goddamn

 

[froginhotwater]

Mario is really out here, 35 years later, still doing his 9-5, shifting games and making sales. A true icon.

 

[Dark Cloud]

Too easy

 

[abellwillring]

1/3rd of Physical is a really incredible figure.

 

[CasuallyDressed]

Holy shit, that Animal Crossing + Switch Lite effect.

 

[HandsomeCharles]

Tragic, I really hope they can turn their fortunes around soon.

 

[Noctis Winters]

What the hell.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

Tragic, I really hope they can turn their fortunes around soon.

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Indeed. Hopefully they can recover from this success.

 

[Oregano]

For their next trick Nintendo is going to make a Musou game sell over 5 million copies.

 

[AfropunkNyc]

Best Handheld I've ever owned. Would be a serious go to gaming device for me, if i didn't own a Gaming PC.

 

[WestEgg]

Switch has a realistic chance of surpassing PS4's best year in the UK too, graphic of hiska-kun

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This one is surprising

 

[IneptEMP]

See you in a few years when Nintendo is owned by Microsoft.

No way they won't be going third party after this performance

 

[404LinkNotFound]

Switch has a realistic chance of surpassing PS4's best year in the UK too, graphic of hiska-kun

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Hmm Xbox and PS4 peaked Early in the UK

Edit : Actually a lot of them peaked really early ,I wonder why

 

[King Dodongo]

Next year the Switch is going to implode worldwide with a good looking lineup.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

switch in beast mode

remember when people laughed at the idea of 100M+?

 

[Deleted member 11008]

I think even without a wave of new games, Nintendo evergreen games are driving all those sales. Crazy.

 

[dep9000]

Damn, very impressive. I don't think the PS5 or XSX will make a dent in how the Switch is performing. Leading the pack for sure

 

[Delusibeta]

90% up year on year with a bunch of ports being the sum total of first party releases this month. Imagine what it'll be like with a new game.

 

[fiendcode]

Particularly impressive given the UK is traditionally one of Nintendo's weakest markets in terms of marketshare.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

Damn, very impressive. I don't think the PS5 or XSX will make a dent in how the Switch is performing. Leading the pack for sure

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for sure. switch will continue to remain unbothered in 2021.

 

[Skittzo]

And last September was when the Lite launched, which presumably gave it a pretty big boost already. +90% on top of that is nutso.

switch in beast mode

remember when people laughed at the idea of 100M+?

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Now the idea of it not hitting 100M is laughable.

 

[byDoS]

switch in beast mode

remember when people laughed at the idea of 100M+?

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People laughed at the ideia of a 20M+ hybrid system in 2017.

 

[Samanyolu]

Nintendo still Nintendoing; Great results!

 

[Kyuuji]

Good stuff, it's an incredible piece of hardware and has a crazy library of games at this stage.

 

[Tbone5189]

Switch has a realistic chance of surpassing PS4's best year in the UK too, graphic of hiska-kun

Insane, can it hit 1.5mil?

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For their next trick Nintendo is going to make a Musou game sell over 5 million copies.

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Might come true lol. Timing is good too

 

[unicornKnight]

Tragic, I really hope they can turn their fortunes around soon.

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Not happening, at least we can hope Microsoft will buy them.

 

[Xevross]

+90% YoY being for year to date rather than September is a very important distinction that people have missed. 2020 has obviously been amazing for Switch but we don't know how September went specifically for HW. Physical software domination is pretty crazy but Mario 3D was the biggest release of the month with Avengers being the only other big launch skewing digital heavily, so its not too surprising.

Anyway +90% YoY is good to know, that's better than the +83% in the US as of August.

 

[Adulfzen]

Damn I guess Nintendo is doomed after all, can't wait for all the sad Mario thumbnails on youtube

 

[Tbone5189]

Do we have numbers for any NSW figures?

 

[Suede]

Yup, got mine this month, I love it.

 

[CasuallyDressed]

Doomed.

 

[Hero of Legend]

For their next trick Nintendo is going to make a Musou game sell over 5 million copies.

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What is the highest selling musou worldwide? I think HW:AoC could pull it off. Seems to be ticking the right boxes at a great time. This holiday's fairly barren with big releases from Nintendo, with 3D All-Stars and Mario Kart Live being the only other competition from Nintendo.

 

[Ryng™]

90%

 

[Labyrinthe]

Doomed.

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It's all downhill from here boys.

 

[RailWays]

The Switch is beasting

 

[Oregano]

What is the highest selling musou worldwide? I think HW:AoC could pull it off. Seems to be ticking the right boxes at a great time. This holiday's fairly barren with big releases from Nintendo, with 3D All-Stars and Mario Kart Live being the only other competition from Nintendo.

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I believe it's Dynasty Warriors 4 at just over 2m copies sold. In fact I think Koei Tecmo's best selling game of all time is Ni-Oh at ~3m copies with Fire Emblem Three Houses not far behind.

I think Age of Calamity will be the biggest game they've ever developed, and it's not probably a factor in DW9 Empires coming to Switch when it would probably be more convenient not to bother.

 

[Pancakes R Us]

Particularly impressive given the UK is traditionally one of Nintendo's weakest markets in terms of marketshare.

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This is very pertinent. DS and Wii very well here but fell off after 3DS and Wii U came to market. Even the height of the DS Wii success there was a large chunk of non-gamers. Switch is just on another level. Really glad Nintendo has done so well. It's just a shame that they like to follow up a success with a failure, hah. Hopefully this doesn't happen for Switch.

 

[Zedark]

90% YoY growth is astounding, considering the Lite launched during September last year. While Lite didn't set the charts on fire in the UK, it did inevitably provide a boost, so being 90% up YoY is huge.

 

[deep_dish]

Itprintsmoney

 

[Puroresu_kid]

Props to those who predicted the switch would do gangbusters

 

[fourfourfun]

Particularly impressive given the UK is traditionally one of Nintendo's weakest markets in terms of marketshare.

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Indeed, half the time I feel like I live in the country of Fifa, COD and Grand Theft Auto wall to wall.