Well, this is a big surprise. One of the UK's favourite franchises is FIFA, and the latest entry has once again done the numbers for EA. FIFA 20 debuts at number one despite a decline in physical sales -- but let's not forget that digital is making an increasingly large dent on retail figures.
Other new releases didn't fare quite so well, unfortunately. Code Vein only managed 13th, while The Surge 2 arrived way down at number 35. It means the top 10 is once again relatively familiar; Borderlands 3 manages another podium finish, and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is still in the pack.
Here's the latest top 10 in full.
- FIFA 20
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
- Borderlands 3
- Gears 5
- Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
- The Division 2
- Sea of Thieves
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Minecraft: Xbox Edition
- Forza Horizon 3
[source ukie.org.uk]
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Sports fans aren't very savvy when it comes to video games it seems, either that or they just don't care and have to have the latest iteration of the same game.
I was a big fan of fifa, 20 years ago.
On the upside Rockstar may now start work on GTA 6.
@MightyDemon82 From what I’ve seen going through school and now uni, people buy Fifa basically for Ultimate Team. The minute it’s out of date, it’s abandoned as they’re competing for the best team among their group so I guess it’s a status thing. Still stupid though, spending money on a game that will be obsolete is rather pointless.
Gears 5 is 4th again? Impressive!
The fact Code Vein only got 13th is a bit surprising but at the same time expected sadly. Was hoping it'd be top ten at least.
Why is Sea of Samey Missions 7th though?!
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy - there was an XB1s bundle that included FIFA20 and Gears of War.
Balls balls balls, footy footy footy!
the decline in FIFA sales was fairly small from 2018 - i'm still unconvinced that huge volumes of the UK public would rather buy it for £60 on digital stores than £45 at retail (or £50 if you're lazy and go to game). what's more concerning is the fact that the total number of games sold (including FIFA) is less than FIFA alone managed just a couple of years ago - pretty much everything else sold not that much.
I have Code Vein and The Surge 2 better quality then the yearly roster update.
Comments full of people dictating what people should like. Football is the world's most popular sport why should its game selling be surprising or worrying. How does that affect your enjoyment of your unpopular game.
@TheArt Let's say people who love football should play the best football game around (and PES it's not even in the top ten) instead of a clearly inferior one only because of its name and its deadly microtransactions.
Any great sport game is a great videogame, especially since with € 60 you get a game you can play for a whole year.
Man, you limeys sure do love your soccer.
Dragon Quest XI S debuted at #11, apparently. Just outside the top ten. Maybe more people would be looking into it if they weren't so enamored with the Goose Game.
@andreoni79 So who's stopping other Devs from making football games? Clearly the programming and millions of animations is not as easy as we think. Not to talk of the insane cut FIFA is probably taking from EA for licences.
@TheArt Licenses, licenses, licenses why should that be the problem of the gamers. Its not the quality launching with a broken career mode. Yeah its the name that sells not the quality with a few exceptions. The bigger the publisher the lower the quality. If its a small developer it will be destroyed with the reviews.
@Flaming_Kaiser You'd be saying the same about the small developer that turned big. You think EA started off big and were never small, friend? Good luck to the small dev that can travel all over scanning faces, stadiums, boots, balls, kits, kit fonts, player data(name, age, strengths, weaknesses, attributes etc), it ain't a joke. Till we have some dev offering a better package, it's useless comparing FIFA to something that doesn't even exist.
Xbox must have had some killer sales. Unusual to see their games in the charts let alone 4!
@Dodoo - not really, total number of copies FIFA sold on PS4, is more than all xbox game sales combined including FIFA. FIFA's accounting for more ~75% of all boxed game sales last week.
@leucocyte yeah but I meant unusual just to see four Xbox games in the chart at all irrespective of sales numbers...
@MightyDemon82 90% of FIFA players are Pro clubs and FUT. FUT is dead once new FIFA comes out, u must buy new iteration, otherwise half of the modes become unavailable, not to mention no new cards and market being dead.
It's a no-brainer to buy new FIFA if you interested into FUT. If you casual who plays career mode and couch football, then there is no point rebuying it every year.
@nessisonett it's not pointless if you having fun playing it.
@TheArt Are they small now? I dont have anything too do with the past. Money eqauls funds to fix your games or keep a monopoly on the soccer licenses. They have shown enough games where they took the money and left people in the cold.
@Bamila i'm not a sports fan but everyone i know buys it for career mode. FUT should be a free to play download and EA should be releasing a fully playable game at release especially when folk are paying £60 and upward just for those offline modes.
Sea of Thieves seems a weird entry
@TheArt means nothing in the scheme of things. Reminds me folk who get wound up and fixated on the numerical score in reviews...
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