UK charts: Animal Crossing remains at the top for the fourth time in a year
The Games Industry portal has shared information on sales of retail editions of games in the UK from 31 January to 6 February 2021. In the absence of new releases, Nintendo Switch exclusives once again ruled the show.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons tops the rankings for the fourth time this year, despite a 13 percent drop in sales. Next, like a week earlier, is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
At the same time, Nintendo almost captured all three places on the virtual podium: only 52 sold copies lacked the coveted line in the top 3 fitness adventure Ring Fit Adventure.
The most notable release in January in the face of the social stealth action game Hitman 3 continues to fall: the new creation of IO Interactive dropped to 17th position due to a 54% slowdown in sales.
Last week’s only premiere was Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood. The debut turned out to be unsuccessful: the action role-playing movie of the Cyanide studio reached only 36th place in the rating.
Games Industry expects the Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury action platformer for Nintendo Switch to be released on February 12th in the next reporting period.
The top 10 UK retail charts from 31 January to 6 February 2021 are as follows (last week’s result is shown in parentheses):
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons (1);
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (2);
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (3);
- Ring Fit Adventure (7);
- Minecraft (6);
- Grand Theft Auto V (4);
- Just Dance 2021 (8);
- FIFA 21 (10);
- Super Mario 3D All-Stars (9);
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (12).
