Black Friday week proved so enormous that the UK sales charts were delayed over 24 hours due to a system error at a major retailer. It's not surprising, though, as retail software sales increased by 60 per cent compared to the previous week, with hardware sales jumping by eight per cent year-over-year. Despite this, the total revenue made on software actually decreased by 10 per cent compared to 2014.
Irrespective, one game that particularly profited from the period was Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, which soared up to fifth position in the all formats charts. The game's sales β buoyed by heavy bundling β increased by 999 per cent compared to the previous week, which is quite a staggering statistic. Various other PS4 exclusives like The Last of Us Remastered and Until Dawn also enjoyed significant boosts.
But the real story is that launch title Knack actually re-entered the charts in 30th position, presumably off the back of some heavy retailer discounts. If you've been praying for a PlayStation Plus version of the Japan Studio developed exclusive, then you may want to put your hopes aside β it's obvious from this impressive result that Mark Cerny's creation still has legs at retail.
As for the Top 10 itself, soccer sim FIFA 16 beat off strong competition to top the league this time out, while Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Star Wars Battlefront, and Fallout 4 fleshed out a ferocious looking top four. Grand Theft Auto V proved that it's still as popular as ever in sixth position, while Minecraft: Story Mode spun a yarn in seventh place. Did you buy any games on Black Friday? Let us know below.
UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 28th November, 2015
- FIFA 16
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Fallout 4
- Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Minecraft: Story Mode
- Halo 5: Guardians
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Forza Motorsport 6
[source chart-track.co.uk]
Comments 25
Knack's back, baby!
Knack may not have been perfect, but it didn't deserve all the crap it got.
Battlefront in 3rd hahahaha. Give us a full game next time ea.
@InsertNameHere agreed. Not the finest game, but a solid 7 in my books. Just simple, enjoyable fun.
Battlefront...What an awesome way to show off your new ps4.it looks and sounds so good and plays pretty well too.
I really enjoyed knack even though i didnt finish it a very solid day one game and id actually like to see knack 2
@themcnoisy So im safe when i pick it up?
999% percent? Now I feel bad I didn't buy one to get it to 1000%.
OK, so somebody want to put 999%, or even 1000%, into language we can understand? Is it 10x more? So 999% would be 9.99x more? I hate percentage comparisons, it's that "of" and "more" usage that always does me in.
@Flaming_Kaiser if you like Star Wars it will be the best game you've ever played for the first 3-10 hours depending on your attention threshold. After that... There's always King's Quest - Chapter I?
@benrawr @Flaming_Kaiser yes, but its half a game always online rubbish. Grrrr. I'm going back to KOTOR on the tablet rather than play that star wars game. But @benrawr is correct on this matter my opinions are jilted as I'm old, miserable and miss the 80s star wars.
This proves my point exactly that Sony will not be giving away AAA titles just yet. One of their launch AAAs just hit the top 40 again, and making money again, no need to give it away just yet. I stick my prediction that sometime around early 2016 we may start to see the free AAA titles on plus.
The staying power of GTA5 is just incredible, how many copies are they at now? I remember reading a long while back they hit 50 million, got to be 60 million by now as it is in the top ten in UK and US pretty much every week for two years lol. No wonder rockstar takes so much time between titles, they don't need to release more titles when just one title sells as much as all IPs COMBINED for other developers, if not more. Really hope they make a truly fantastic red dead redemption sequel. (Technically be the third title, right?)
RDR2 is probably top 3 most wanted game that has not been given any coverage right now. Also would like to see Sega make a new Panzer Dragoon Saga and a new gen Phantasy Star, but those last 2 are probably pipe dreams since Sega decided they don't like making games that their fans like, dumb.
@KingofSaiyans they did... FIFA was 1st and loads of whales (industry term) would of bought the season pass for star wars episode. So of course ea made shed loads of money. But my point still stands - fans wont continually buy this rubbish - I'm not going to go on a rant, but when Fallout, Witcher, GTA V, MGS and the ND collection offer such value how can an always online game made over 18 months by a relatively small team be deemed good value by anyone?
@themcnoisy It is not good value and it is my hope that sometime soon gamers all over will realize this and punish developers for such practices. Is Battlefront cool? Of course it is. Should it be priced the same as a fallout or Bloodborne? Oh hell no.
@KingofSaiyans I really never want to play U1 ever again, I didn't like it the first time. U2 is the best "interactive movie game" I've ever played and I might play that again someday. U3 had a poor 1st half and a decent 2nd half. My hope is that after U4 they'll pull a Godfather movie mix and run all 4 movies together in chronological order with a new voice over, so first half of 3, 1, 2, 2nd half of 3, 4. Well unless 4 has some flashback stuff with his brother they need to splice in earlier. I figure they've redone Blade runner several times, they could make "Uncharted: Complete". I'm OK if they leave out a few chapters from the middle of U1.
So anyway I'm holding out for a 1TB slim model, preferably with FFXV. Though most likely with U4. My birthday is in July, whatever is available then.
@SonyInfinity I read that as R2D2 and I thought you were smoking crack.
Cracked is whack amigo
I bought Persona 4 Golden and Danganronpa 2 on Vita via PSN. Also bought the Uncharted bundle as a gift and nabbed a free copy of Fifa 16.
@get2sammyb Maybe we'll actually get a decent sequel!!!
Yes I did Sammy, Journey Collector's Edition and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster.
No love for the best Assassin's Creed in years?
But yeah...Battlefront is A LOT of fun...But it lacks in customization, weapons, modes...and Black Ops 3 has a TON of stuff in those departments! Glad I have both so xD EA is making a lot of money from the game and season pass, but it just seems like half a game
@rjejr Yeah, 9.99 times more than previous week. If it was 100%, it would've been the same number of sales, 200% is twice as much, etc.
Got three full exclusives and one timed-exclusive in that list, but people want to tell me exclusives are irrelevant. They may not mean as much as they once did, but it's still idiotic everytime I hear or read 'exclusives don't matter.'
@Octane "If it was 100%, it would've been the same number of sales, 200% is twice as much, etc."
Well unless it's worded as "more". If you said - PS4 sold 100% more this week than last week, then 100% more would mean doubled sales this week, 200% more would be tripled sales week over week.
That's what I meant about the "of' vs "more" difference causing confusion.
@rjejr I see, yeah, that can be a little confusing sometimes. The difference isn't much in this case luckily, no matter how you read it. I believe an ''increase of 999%'' means ''999% of last week''.
@Octane But would it have killed them to round it up to 1,000%?
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