
With the festive holiday just a couple of days away, the UK's physical top 10 is filled with your typical bestsellers, but Astro Bot has just about broken into the scrum.
In 10th place, it's the highest it's been for a few weeks, likely due to customers buying PS5 consoles for Christmas and grabbing the family-friendly platformer to go with it.
At the top of the pile is Call of Duty Black Ops 6, followed by Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC 25 in second and third respectively. It was always going to be these three vying for number one as the holiday approaches.
The gap between third and 10th place is filled by Nintendo-published titles, with the evergreen Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Animal Crossing: New Horizons showing very impressive staying power.
Here's the latest top 10 in full (physical sales only).
UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 21st December, 2024
- Call of Duty Black Ops 6
- Hogwarts Legacy
- EA Sports FC 25
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Super Mario Party Jamboree
- Nintendo Switch Sports
- Minecraft (Switch)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Astro Bot
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Yeah go Astro
Yeah I did say that the GotY win would probably impact its sales in this chart within the comments of last weeks article. Good news and well deserved… May it’s sales have a llloooonnnnnggggg tail.
Should be Number 1 in my opinion, let's have more real videogames like this in 2025 & beyond.
I noticed that Astro Bot is out of stock at multiple retailers.
You can tell what console sold the most this holiday.
@colonelkilgore Well obviously it would have an impact 😃
I think Astro bot will have long legs and keep selling over the years.
Can't wait for the new Nintendo console as then, finally, MK8 and Minecraft might eventually bog off! I mean, who is still buying these in large enough numbers to make it into the top 10??
@UltimateOtaku91 Rather than thumping your chest about whose box is better, let's celebrate the holidays by being happy for all the great games that came out this year on all platforms.
It did a lot of things right gameplay and graphical wise but the sound from the controller and the over the top vibration was to much for me, I would have loved to see an option to remove the sound from the controller.
@Champalimo i wish more games made use of the controller. The controller speaker is a big reason i dont want to use headphones for silent hill.
Are these kids losing their Maro Kart 8 game cards and getting new ones bought for them every week...
Love to see it. Smaller games made by a smaller team, so it doesn't need to hit 5+ million units, but the more success it has the more likely Sony is to greenlight smaller different projects like this. If you are on the fence and want to see more risks from Sony it's one to pick up.
@Robinsad Again thats fine but there should have been an option to toggle it same as the extreme over the top triggers I turn the adaptive triggers off because it doesnt add anything to the game.
Again its personal preference same that I would like to see an assymetric official ps5 controller.
@Jrs1 yeah maybe I should’ve been more clear, on last weeks article people were stating how surprised they were that it hadn’t impacted the charts at that stage. My argument was that last weeks chart was only up until the day after the Game Awards and therefore was insufficient time to see its impact… but it would show the following (ie this) week.
@colonelkilgore Ahh i see 👍
@cburg I'm not, im just pointing out that with all the Switch games in the charts it's shows that the switch must have sold a lot of units over Christmas.
@UltimateOtaku91 Yeah, this was also my impression. Printing money with an 8 year old console without major price drops is a thing of magic.
@Champalimo You can toggle pretty much all the Dualsense features on and off at the system level.
@MrPeanutbutterz so I can play with the Astro sounds coming from the tv from the sound menu?
Good to see. Astro Bot is easily one of the best games this gen.
I don’t really know why I care at all but for some reason it irritates me that Howarts is STILL selling like this. (I know - it really should be other even older titles that annoy me if anything)
Mario Kart 8 is just insane, how is that still selling this much?
@UltimateOtaku91 I doubt Switch has sold the most, it is just that there are so many of them, and Mario Kart and Animal Crossing are pack in games.
No big holiday console game from any of the Big 3 this year.
It's nice to see Astro still selling well ☺️
@Ainu20 it's been bundled with the Switch every holiday for the last 5 years.
@colonelkilgore Glad to see Astro Bot get bumped back in the top 10 after TGA. The hate from the toxic online warriors is unjustified. I hope for continued success.
@Champalimo just turn the controller sound down in the audio settings you wally!
Love to see BLUEY still on the Top 40 chart. 😊

Figured Christmas would give it a boost.
@MyIronLung but you mis out on all sounds Astro makes that way, it needs to come from my TV.
@UltimateOtaku91 The UK is actually one of the Switch’s weakest markets. Intersting Fact: The series X/S reached 2m sales in the UK in less weeks than the Switch took.
Thats why these physical sales charts are not really a reliable indicator of anything. Not only does the switch sell more physical games but it also sells a less software overall but concentrated in a much smaller number of titles, which only changes slightly at any given time.
@TheArt think about it. Many kids won't have been quite old enough for gaming last year, but this year are and Switch is what they've asked for. The Switch games in the list could be considered staple games for a child's first foray into a games console. Rinse and repeat next year. There are millions of kids growing up.
@UltimateOtaku91
Not really. You can buy a Playstation or Xbox and not need to purchase any games. You've got gamepass and ps+ that give access to literally hundreds of games without buying any. Majority of consoles bought for Christmas will be for kids, vast majority of those kids will be most interested in playing games that are free to play, again no game purchase neccesary for that. A switch gives you none of those options, if you buy a switch, you have to buy games too otherwise it's useless.
Now, I wouldn't wager against the switch being the best selling console this Christmas. It likely is, but your suggestion that this list indicates that is well wide of the mark.
@Champalimo Settings > Controller (General) > Controller Speaker > slide the bar all the way to the left to route all controller audio to play with the rest of the audio on your TV.
Works the same on PS4 too.
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