Monster Hunter: World's reign over the UK weekly chart is over, replaced by another game filled with giant creatures. Shadow of the Colossus takes the top spot, and it comfortably outperforms the 2006 original; launch week sales are 73% higher than they were for the PS2 classic, which also debuted at No.1.
Capcom's beast-slaying RPG, meanwhile, is knocked down to third place, with EA Sports UFC 3 maintaining its strong position in second. Top ten mainstays Grand Theft Auto V, FIFA 18, and Call of Duty: WWII fill out the middle, while The Evil Within 2 makes a return at No.10, owing to a strong retailer push.
Here's the top ten in full.
UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 10th February, 2018
- Shadow of the Colossus
- EA Sports UFC 3
- Monster Hunter: World
- FIFA 18
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Call of Duty: WWII
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Assassin's Creed Origins
- The Evil Within 2
[source chart-track.co.uk]
Comments 32
The UK buying a good game? What is this?
Nice!
This is surprising but awesome
Good news - the remaster is just great. It was sold out at my two local supermarkets.
Nice to see The Evil Within 2 creep back into the top 10.
A Sony console exclusive beats out every other game in the UK? PlayStation Nation stand up! I guess Sony will be pretty chuffed with the initial sales of this remastered classic, let's see how much momentum it has. Hopefully this will spur them on to full remasters of Spyro, ICO, etc and keep them exclusive to the PS4.
@jacobia Couldn't agree more. The Evil Within 2 is a welcome sight as it was highly underrated...SOTC though...never played it before and all I can say is WOW...tackling Colossi 14 currently...tremendous!!
I bought evil within for £11the other day. Its only been out three months so even tho its in the top ten its worrying than the price has dropped off so much since launch
73% higher than the 2006 launch? That’s incredible. Looking forward to the Japanese numbers. Would be interesting to see whether SOTC can push hardware units similar to MH World.
The evil within .is amazing.one of the best game ever word up son
I got SotC with some birthday cash, I think I still would have with my own cash too. Didn't buy the PS3 HD version as it seemed a bit 'money for old rope' - but this PS4 remake is stunning!
Nice to have a favourite looking so fresh!
I'm so looking forward to eventually playing Shadow of the Colossus again. I keep seeing gorgeous photo mode screenshots and it looks so good.
Shadow of the Colossus, Ratchet and Clank remakes, thats how its done. Please stop making Knack games.
Get to try out shadow of the colossus for the first time today hopefully....
The Evil Within 2. Phenomenal game and I'm so glad to see it getting a sales boost.
So, did it do better or worse than The Last Guardian?
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi
How dare you besmirch Knack, he is this generation's 🐐🐐🐐. Without a doubt.
Now that's really amazing news, this classic deserves.
I've got the Colossus battle theme music stuck in my head. And the opening theme. Which is good.
@Turismo4GT thing is tho Sony has lots of market share in the UK ya might as well call the United Kingdom from a gaming standpoint the Sony Kingdom or the PlayStation Kingdom...
US it honestly depends
Japan it’s a tug of war between Sony & Nintendo
Great news and I'm pleased to see Monster Hunter is still in the top 3. Still loving it with over 50 hours so far.
I'm not surprised to see Fifa selling so well. Has anyone ever tried to buy a brand new copy of Pro Evolution 2018 recently ?
It's as rare as rocking horse droppings, almost impossible to find in a shop
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi take that back!!!
@Derpie1 Not true. Xbox and now the Nintendo Switch are also popular in the UK.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi I know they let Sanzaru try it already but maybe Sly deserves another shot?
@Derpie1 we also like cluedo, monopoly and games of catch the girl kiss the girl.
@themcnoisy nice one
probably a good time to release SoTC, and i've seen quite a few ads for it, and some youtube walkthroughs have hundreds of thousands of hits, but still a bit surprised to see it do quite so well. played through the first four colossi at the weekend (pacing myself) which is about as far as i got with the PS3 HD collection - the visual improvements are superb. i'm playing it on 60fps mode, and it's been very smooth so far. wouldn't mind ico getting the same kind of remake treatment.. i'd expect sony to have bluepoint on standby for something else from the vaults.
@themcnoisy I thought we only really like tea, and everything else is up for grabs (over a nice cup of tea)? I say, steady on, pip-pip, don'tchaknow.
Solid chart, I'd say. I'm getting less and less surprised each time a remaster hits the top spot, mainly because they're usually the highest-quality, most-loved remasters that took their time and got it right, appearing with the strong single-player-supporting stance of Sony.
If a lazy slap-dash money-grab like Batman: Return to Arkham had the same success, I'd be baffled, but the popularity and praise of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, Crash Bandicoot: N'Sane Trilogy and now Shadow of the Colossus is well-deserved.
More please, Sony!
@Rudy_Manchego Wait, you buy games at a supermarket? where do you live because I would love to buy newly released games at a supermarket, unless you're referring to Walmart then never mind lol:D
Wish Sony would remake Legend of Dragoon or just make a sequel.
I swear that game is the most underrated rpg in the history of gaming, I loved that game more than FFVII, to me it blows FFVII out of the water tbh, the story was better too.
@malbhet I'm based in the UK so some of our big chains like Tesco, Sainsbury's etc have large stores that also stock a limited selection of games (and movies etc.). It is typically just the top ten sales charts titles.
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