Nothing to see here, folks. The UK sales charts have barely changed for nearing a month now, and that remains true this week, with Call of Duty: Black Ops III on top yet again. FIFA 16 managed to bump Star Wars Battlefront down into third, while Grand Theft Auto V overtook Fallout 4 in fourth. The only real surprise this time is that Battlefield 4 climbed all the way back into the Top Ten.
Evergreen PlayStation titles like Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, The Last of Us Remastered, and Until Dawn rounded out the Top 40 – but third-party games very much dominated yet again. Things should start to get interesting soon with the release of LEGO Marvel's Avengers and Gravity Rush Remastered, but until then, expect these articles to remain dull as dishwater.
UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 9th January, 2015
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III
- FIFA 16
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Fallout 4
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege
- WWE 2K16
- Just Cause 3
- Assassin's Creed Syndicate
- Battlefield 4
[source chart-track.co.uk]
Comments 6
And people cry about things never changing lol.
I guess the increase in sales of BF4 are related to the lack of any depth and content in SW:BF...
I reckon Gravity Rush remastered is going to flop hard. Nothing against it, but it's not got a huge mainstream appeal.
@Johnnycide It can't really flop, though. Something's a flop based on its budget, if £500 film makes £10,000 it's a massive success. This is a remaster of an old Vita game that already made its development costs and profit back years ago. These remasters are a very safe bet from an economical point of view, that's why companies love doing them. Blops is number one for ages but then they spend $50,000,000 on advertising it each year.
I know what you mean, it's not exactly going to rush up the charts and knock these games down a peg. It doesn't have to, though. It's not like Splatoon where it was THE big release for the Wii U for the year, a definite tentpole release, and basically popped into the charts for 2 weeks before disappearing.
@Matroska fair play, but what I meant was that the demand for this title isn't really there. I can't see your average gamer who buys CoD and Fifa every year picking it up like they would, say, witcher 3.
Hype levels for that were nonexistent on announcement and it sold well from being a quality title, but it looked like LotR or Game of Thrones. Gravity Rush looks like an anime, and believe me; anime is not nearly as popular as many people believe.
I'm not getting GR it has no appeal to me whatsoever the only person i've spoken to that's excited for it is excited because he used to play it and loved it. I don't think it'll do so well in the chart's because it doesn't appeal to new gamer's it's more nostalgia, I hope i'm wrong as the the chart's suck but let's not forget they are innacurate as they don't take into account digital sale's yet. I read this in a Push Square article and still think's it's absurd and game's like GR would benefit (in the charts) if this changed. I can just imagine the BO3 advert's abroad "Best seller in the UK for 28 week's" i'm a fan of BO3 great MP game but should it be top of the UK chart's all year, I don't think so.
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