UK Sales Charts: WipEout Omega Collection Earns an Elite Pass

First ever number one for franchise

by Sammy Barker Mon 12th Jun 2017

We’re going to blow your mind a bit here: WipEout Omega Collection has scored the first ever UK sales charts number one in the iconic series’ history. Yes, that’s really true – it’s the first WipEout game ever to top the British sales charts. Has your mind been blown? We’re pretty bloody shocked ourselves, to be honest with you.

This week’s best sellers list makes good reading for the PlayStation 4, with Horizon: Zero Dawn back up in fourth position following a spate of great discounts, and Tekken 7 sticking around in second place. DiRT 4 debuted in third position, as Injustice 2 began its tumble out of the top ten in eighth place.

UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 10th June, 2017

WipEout Omega Collection
Tekken 7
DiRT 4
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Grand Theft Auto V
Overwatch
FIFA 17
Injustice 2
The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind
Dishonored 2

[source chart-track.co.uk]

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.

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get2sammyb
Mon 12th Jun 2017

I'm genuinely shocked. I can't believe this is the first WipEout to get to number one.

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Haruki_NLI
Mon 12th Jun 2017

Good. ARMS wont chart and we can get to more good games with Crash.

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get2sammyb
Mon 12th Jun 2017

@BLP_Software Of course it will chart!

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YETi
Mon 12th Jun 2017

No my mind hasnt been blown but Wipeout was set at a reasonable price as well I think.

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Haruki_NLI
Mon 12th Jun 2017

@get2sammyb Youre brave to think that.

UK plus low console plus motion control focus

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Nei
Mon 12th Jun 2017

Yay for Wipeout! Get studio Liverpool survivors together and give us a new episode, Sony.

I would even settle for another collection with Wipeout, 2097 and Wip3out.

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Fight_Teza_Fight
Mon 12th Jun 2017

Vroom!

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Quintumply
Mon 12th Jun 2017

That's actually quite surprising, I'd have thought that maybe 2097 or Wip3out would've gotten a number 1 in the past. This bodes well, though! Really hope it does well enough to warrant a fully fledged sequel.

Also happy to see DiRT 4 in the charts

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Deadlyblack
Mon 12th Jun 2017

Wipeout deserves it. Played it last night and I'm having a blast.

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Bread-Not-Toast
Mon 12th Jun 2017

Guess being sold at £25 helped a lot.

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wiiware
Mon 12th Jun 2017

Nice, wipeout, tekken, and next month, crash trilogy, it seems we're back to the 90's

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xMEADx
Mon 12th Jun 2017

I'd love to see the number's, i'd hazard a guess that if you added up the whole of this month's top 10 sale's, it wouldn't match the 800,000+ sale's it took to get Far Cry Primal to the UK number one in Feb 2016. Maybe Digital sale's are so high the physical chart's are suffering? Maybe it's time we included digital sale's in the top 10? I hope this is the case tbh.

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MinerWilly
Mon 12th Jun 2017

I already have Wipeout HD and Fury on PS3 , they look tremendous and are quite probably the best looking games on PS3.
Would I be crazy rebuying the Omega Collection as I already own 2/3rds of the tracks. I'm in a conundrum.

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themcnoisy
Mon 12th Jun 2017

That's like a rocket up the ass, should send quakes through the industry.

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JAMes-BroWWWn
Mon 12th Jun 2017

Not really suprising tbh. I mean since Sony, MS and Nintendo started finally providing digital sale numbers as well, it just proves how important and well received exclusives are.