UK Sales Charts: Crash Bandicoot Remains Top Despite Amazon Prime Day Disruption

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by Stephen Tailby Mon 23rd Jul 2018

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy PS4 PlayStation 4

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy continues to perform extremely well in the UK retail chart thanks to its multiplatform release last month. This is its fourth consecutive number one since then, despite some fierce competition. LEGO The Incredibles remains in second place, with only a 7% drop in sales week on week.

But the bandicoot has also topped a couple of Xbox exclusives as they re-enter the chart thanks to Amazon Prime Day. According to GamesIndustry.biz, only 2,000 sales separate No 6 from No 1, so it was a close run race at the top end of the chart. In amongst all this is Sonic Mania Plus, which debuts in fifth place.

Here's the latest top 10.

UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 21st July, 2018

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
LEGO The Incredibles
Sea of Thieves
Minecraft: Xbox Edition
Sonic Mania Plus
Forza Horizon 3
God of War
The Crew 2
FIFA 18
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

[source gamesindustry.biz]

Stephen has been part of the Push Square team for over six years, bringing boundless enthusiasm and a deep knowledge of video games to his role as Assistant Editor. Having grown up playing every PlayStation console to date, he's developed an eclectic taste, with particular passion for indie games, arcade racers, and puzzlers. He's also our go-to guy for Sonic-related matters, much to his delight/chagrin.

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Haruki_NLI
Mon 23rd Jul 2018

Octopath and Captain Toad died a swift death.

Sonic Mania Plus was surprising giving the PS4's dominance.

And for some reason its specifically Minecraft: Xbox Edition? How random.

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Quintumply
Mon 23rd Jul 2018

@Knuckles-Fajita I think it's specifically the Xbox version because of bundles. It seems that Xbox One bundles did pretty well via Amazon Prime Day, hence the re-entries.

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Fight_Teza_Fight
Mon 23rd Jul 2018

@Knuckles-Fajita Don’t think it was that surprising.

Switch owners are used to double dipping .

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Haruki_NLI
Mon 23rd Jul 2018

@Fight_Teza_Fight Not even that. Crash sold more on Xbox, I wouldnt think Sonic would have such a lead on Switch.

The system is certainly a complete uTurn in the UK.

@Quintumply The Xbox One does go cheap.

If only I trusted Amazon with anything eh?

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roe
Mon 23rd Jul 2018

Have we ever had any clarification on whether Xbox Game Pass counts as sales for these? I don't see why it should, but then again I don't see why that many (or any) would buy the game outright, when they could try it out for just a few quid.

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roe
Mon 23rd Jul 2018

@Kidfried Gotcha. That makes sense, cheers

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wiiware
Mon 23rd Jul 2018

@Knuckles-Fajita I guess that settled "sony should make a traditional rpg"

I probably should buy it since I like traditional rpg like octopath traveler, it's too bad the game is out of stock on my local store. The euro, us and asia version is all gone.

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leucocyte
Mon 23rd Jul 2018

@Kidfried - physical sales still massively dominate in the UK.

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Haruki_NLI
Mon 23rd Jul 2018

@wiiware The game is out of stock the world over.

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GKO900
Mon 23rd Jul 2018

I'm surprised to see sea of tears in the chart and glad that Crash and God of War are doing great

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leucocyte
Mon 23rd Jul 2018

@Kidfried - a report by gamesindustry.biz a few months back, based on all physical and digital sales (except bethesda and nintendo store) highlighted the reliance of physical sales for console games in the UK. it's around 80%. whilst it does vary from game to game, for example destiny 2 it was only around 63%, for Gran Turismo Sport it was 88%. Most of the games like FIFA, CoD, Battlefield, assassin's creed, etc it's more or less around that 80% mark.

almost without exception it's cheaper to buy a physical copy of a game at launch than it is digitally.. over the course of the year, the % may skew less towards physical as it's much easier to do regular sales on digital platforms (and as physical stock reduces), but the numbers are not nearly suffiicent enough to remove the dominance of disk.

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wiiware
Mon 23rd Jul 2018

@Knuckles-Fajita The special edition is available, but I don't want it since it's expensive, I want the asia version because the price is only +- $46.