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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

After a short delay, the latest UK boxed charts are now in and this week sees the return to a very familiar top three.

Hogwarts Legacy once again finds itself ahead of the pack, while last week's silver medalist and Christmas number one (sort of), Super Mario Bros. Wonder, has dropped a place and now sits in second. This has left room for the old faithful EA Sports FC 24 to slide into the top rankings once again after briefly spending a week at number six.

The rest of the chart is just as unsurprising this week too. The classics of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Nintendo Switch Sports and Minecraft all hang about in the top ten (because of course they do) and the rest of the lineup is much as you might expect. That said, the Switch is the most popular platform for NBA 2K24 this week, which is... something.

Here's your look at this week's top 40 in full, with platform splits for Switch games that also appear on other platforms:

Last Week	This Week	Game	Platform Split
1	1	Hogwarts Legacy	PS5 41%, PS4 27%, Switch 19%, Xbox One 6%
6	2	EA Sports FC 24	PS5 40%, PS4 24%, Switch 24%, Xbox Series 11%
2	3	Super Mario Bros. Wonder
8	4	Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate	PS5 51%, PS4 48%, Xbox Series 1%, Switch 0%
4	5	Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
3	6	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
5	7	Marvel's Spider-Man 2
7	8	Grand Theft Auto V
10	9	Nintendo Switch Sports
12	10	Minecraft
13	11	Animal Crossing: New Horizons
9	12	Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
14	13	Assassin's Creed Mirage
20	14	The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Complete Edition
15	15	Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
-	16	The Sims 4: For Rent
17	17	Just Dance 2024 Edition	Switch 96%, PS5 3%, Xbox 1%
18	18	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
16	19	Sonic Superstars	Switch 58%, PS5 28%, Xbox Series 8%, PS4 6%
21	20	Wreckfest	PS5 99%, PS4 1%, Switch 1%, Xbox One 0%
-	21	It Takes Two	Switch 57%, PS4 43%, Xbox Series 0%
30	22	The Witcher III: Wild Hunt GOTY Edition	PC 92%, PS4 4%, Xbox One 3%, Switch 0%
19	23	Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
35	24	NBA 2K24	Switch 37%, PS5 31%, PS4 21%, Xbox Series 11%
22	25	LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga	Switch 46%, PS5 38%, PS4 10%, Xbox Series 6%
23	26	Mario Party Superstars
24	27	Cyberpunk 2077
34	28	Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition	PS4 41%, Switch 35%, Xbox Series 24%
-	29	Mafia Trilogy
27	30	Pokémon Violet
-	31	Ring Fit Adventure
25	32	30 in 1 Game Collection
40	33	LEGO Harry Potter Collection	Switch 70%, PS4 25%, Xbox One 6%
36	34	New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
-	35	Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
37	36	Super Mario Odyssey
32	37	The Crew Motorfest
-	38	Bluey: The Videogame	Switch 74%, PS4 10%, PS5 10%, Xbox Series 6%
29	39	Elden Ring
-	40	Dark Souls Trilogy

[Sales Data Compiled by GfK]

UK Charts: EA Sports FC 24 Slides Back Into The Top Three

Surprise surprise

www.nintendolife.com

 

[nial]

Sonic Superstars casually outselling Cyberpunk 2077.

 

[Fake]

Hogwarts Legacy kicking ass. About spidey...

 

[Bernoulli]

PS5 51%, PS4 48%, Xbox Series 1%, Switch 0%

PS5 41%, PS4 27%, Switch 19%, Xbox One 6%

PS5 40%, PS4 24%, Switch 24%, Xbox Series 11%

The refresh digital only makes sense now

 

[Fake]

PS4 still doing a hell of job. Those plataform split numbers are brutal.

 

[mckmas8808]

MK11 with 99% sold on Playstation is NUTS!

 

[mdkirby]

Pretty damning stats for xbox. It’s no wonder Sony is more easily able to get third party exclusivity deals looking at that, any publisher would be out of their mind to sacrifice 80-90% of their sales unless crazy amounts of cash were dumped in their lap.

 

[GHG]

One percenters represent.

 

[jroc74]

Wait a min.....

2K24 sold the most on the....Switch???

Hogwarts didnt even chart on Series consoles??? This has to be a typo........cot dayum.

The refresh digital only makes sense now

MK11 with 99% sold on Playstation is NUTS!

Combined with, hopefully not alot, Xbox users seemingly all in on "I'll Wait For It To Be On Game Pass " and....yeah......

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

This is the UK Boxed Charts, btw, so that's why the split heavily skews towards PS4/PS5/Switch. Imma ask the mods to put that in the thread title.

 

[jroc74]

The refresh digital only makes sense now

This is the UK Boxed Charts, btw, so that's why the split heavily skews towards PS4/PS5/Switch. Imma ask the mods to put that in the thread title.

Ok, now it makes sense.

Xbox users really aren't buying physical games....huh.

Ppl still buying physical on the damn PS4 and XBO and not on Series consoles is....wild.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

The refresh digital only makes sense now

With stats like that, I feel like if MS made PS versions of Gears, Halo and Forza, they'd all probably sell equal or better on PS....

*runs

 

[Horseganador]

Xbox is completely dead in terms of game sales, those bad percentages are incredible and will make it even more difficult to compete in the future, people with 10-15 years of library on PS4-PS5 will not change platforms so easily.

 

[Saber]

Its very sad to see Xbox owers don't buying games. How the heck they want to move up games if you guys don't give a fuck about buying them? Stupid lazy people thinking of waiting everything to go to GP, dissapointing.

 

[mckmas8808]

Ok, now it makes sense.

Xbox users really aren't buying physical games....huh.

Ppl still buying physical on the damn PS4 and XBO and not on Series consoles is....wild.

Exactly! Super wild.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

just pull the pug already, is just SSaD

 

[mckmas8808]

Its very sad to see Xbox owers don't buying games. How the heck they want to move up games if you guys don't give a fuck about buying them? Stupid lazy thinking of waiting everything to go to GP, dissapointing.

Gotta blame Microsoft on this though.

 

[freefornow]

Last Week	This Week	Game	Platform Split
1	1	Hogwarts Legacy	PS5 41%, PS4 27%, Switch 19%, Xbox One 6%
6	2	EA Sports FC 24	PS5 40%, PS4 24%, Switch 24%, Xbox Series 11%
2	3	Super Mario Bros. Wonder
8	4	Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate	PS5 51%, PS4 48%, Xbox Series 1%, Switch 0%
4	5	Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
3	6	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
5	7	Marvel's Spider-Man 2
7	8	Grand Theft Auto V
10	9	Nintendo Switch Sports
12	10	Minecraft
13	11	Animal Crossing: New Horizons
9	12	Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
14	13	Assassin's Creed Mirage
20	14	The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Complete Edition
15	15	Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
-	16	The Sims 4: For Rent
17	17	Just Dance 2024 Edition	Switch 96%, PS5 3%, Xbox 1%
18	18	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
16	19	Sonic Superstars	Switch 58%, PS5 28%, Xbox Series 8%, PS4 6%
21	20	Wreckfest	PS5 99%, PS4 1%, Switch 1%, Xbox One 0%
-	21	It Takes Two	Switch 57%, PS4 43%, Xbox Series 0%
30	22	The Witcher III: Wild Hunt GOTY Edition	PC 92%, PS4 4%, Xbox One 3%, Switch 0%
19	23	Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
35	24	NBA 2K24	Switch 37%, PS5 31%, PS4 21%, Xbox Series 11%
22	25	LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga	Switch 46%, PS5 38%, PS4 10%, Xbox Series 6%
23	26	Mario Party Superstars
24	27	Cyberpunk 2077
34	28	Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition	PS4 41%, Switch 35%, Xbox Series 24%
-	29	Mafia Trilogy
27	30	Pokémon Violet
-	31	Ring Fit Adventure
25	32	30 in 1 Game Collection
40	33	LEGO Harry Potter Collection	Switch 70%, PS4 25%, Xbox One 6%
36	34	New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
-	35	Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
37	36	Super Mario Odyssey
32	37	The Crew Motorfest
-	38	Bluey: The Videogame	Switch 74%, PS4 10%, PS5 10%, Xbox Series 6%
29	39	Elden Ring
-	40	Dark Souls Trilogy

[Sales Data Compiled by GfK]

UK Charts: EA Sports FC 24 Slides Back Into The Top Three

Surprise surprise

www.nintendolife.com

Your doing it wrong!!!!

 

[JaksGhost]

Mortal Kombat 11 being in the Top 5 while the new entry failed to reach Top 40 is absolutely crazy.

 

[Tsaki]

What's with the percentage splits? Since when do those get reported?

 

[Mr Moose]

Hogwarts Legacy once again finds itself ahead of the pack, while last week's silver medalist and Christmas number one (sort of), Super Mario Bros. Wonder, has dropped a place and now sits in second. This has left room for the old faithful EA Sports FC 24 to slide into the top rankings once again after briefly spending a week at number six.

Am I high or does this not make sense?

 

[DarthPutin]

Your doing it wrong!!!!

I love that in the annual chart thread, Resetera members understood immediately what this empty space means and proceeded to discuss Hogwarts Legacy numbers without missing a bit . It's almost like it's pointless to pretend that the most popular 'new' IP of the year doesn't exist!

 

[Kerotan]

Hogwarts legacy on playstation is in beast mode.

 

[bender]

Am I high or does this not make sense?

They love their SOCCER across the pond.

 

[Tams]

1

1

Hogwarts Legacy

PS5 41%, PS4 27%, Switch 19%, Xbox One 6%

This makes me so happy.

 

[ReBurn]

MK11 with 99% sold on Playstation is NUTS!

MK11 in the charts at all is nuts

 

[bender]

This makes me so happy.

You aren't alone.

 

[Woopah]

Ok, now it makes sense.

Xbox users really aren't buying physical games....huh.

Ppl still buying physical on the damn PS4 and XBO and not on Series consoles is....wild.

Exactly! Super wild.

It would make sense if most Series models were the S no?

What's with percentage splits? Since when do those get reported?

A new thing that Nintendo Life has started doing (hopefully it continues!)

Am I high or does this not make sense?

You're right, it's poorly written.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Those platform splits, though.

 

[tommib]

The 1 percent makes me chuckle.

 

[tommib]

PlayStation should not get away with this transgenocide.

 

[onQ123]

PS4 going crazy in it's 10th yeah is crazy but also NBA2K24 selling more on Switch is wild

MK11 with 99% sold on Playstation is NUTS!

I was trying to think of a nice way to say that fighting games might as well be PlayStation console exclusives nowadays

With Current Gen finally getting some fighting games I wonder if the standard dpad still has an influence on where people play?

Or does it not matter anymore because everyone will be buying fighting pads/ sticks?

www.neogaf.com

 

[onQ123]

I guess naming the new Mortal Kombat 'Mortal Kombat One' wasn't such a good idea lol

 

[onQ123]

Pretty damning stats for xbox. It’s no wonder Sony is more easily able to get third party exclusivity deals looking at that, any publisher would be out of their mind to sacrifice 80-90% of their sales unless crazy amounts of cash were dumped in their lap.

Are you insinuating that someone spent a lot of money to keep up with the Joneses in Indiana?

 

[nowhat]

Pretty damning stats for xbox. It’s no wonder Sony is more easily able to get third party exclusivity deals looking at that, any publisher would be out of their mind to sacrifice 80-90% of their sales unless crazy amounts of cash were dumped in their lap.

So according to my expert detective skills, MS probably coughed up a fuckton of cash to Lucasfilm for exclusive Indy?

 

[Tsaki]

A new thing that Nintendo Life has started doing (hopefully it continues!)

Interesting. So does NintendoLife literally pay GfK to have access to this data and then be able to publish it?

 

[Tsaki]

This is the UK Boxed Charts, btw, so that's why the split heavily skews towards PS4/PS5/Switch. Imma ask the mods to put that in the thread title.

The Witcher 3 has PC sales with 92% split though

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

The Witcher 3 has PC sales with 92% split though

Maybe it went on a deep discount? I've seen the Dead Space physical release for PC on a deeper discount than console €20 vs €30-35. Regardless, that was not the point I was trying to make. People were taking that data out of context and the thread title was updated by the mods at my request to avoid confusion.

 

[onQ123]

The Witcher 3 has PC sales with 92% split though

Yeah what's going on here?

 

[Tsaki]

Maybe it went on a deep discount? I've seen the Dead Space physical release for PC on a deeper discount than console €20 vs €30-35. Regardless, that was not the point I was trying to make. People were taking that data out of context and the thread title was updated by the mods at my request to avoid confusion.

Yeah it's weird. I wouldn't think there would exist enough physical W3 PC copies to massively overtake console sales. Maybe it's a typo and threw in the digital sales for this game as well without noticing

 

[jm89]

Physical + Digital splits would be nice.

Gbiz use to supply them monthly and even sometimes at the end of the week for some big releases. But they stopped giving out Physical + Digital splits entirely for whatever reason.

 

[Darkkahn]

MK1 might as well be a PlayStation exclusive!

 

[onQ123]

MK1 might as well be a PlayStation exclusive!

That's MK11 but yeah same applies.

 

[Dr.brain64]

 

[Woopah]

Interesting. So does NintendoLife literally pay GfK to have access to this data and then be able to publish it?

It seems weird, but yes that's the only thing I can think of.

 

[mdkirby]

Are you insinuating that someone spent a lot of money to keep up with the Joneses in Indiana?

No, but yes they would have had to pay a shit ton, game will be “free on games pass” it’ll sell very few units, and will be missing out on the biggest platform by far. They’ll have had to negotiate covering those lost earnings. If for instance it was expected to cost 200mil in dev, but projected revenue of 800mil cross platform (plus the fact it’s Disney so the value is also brand extension/mindshare), microsoft won’t need to be just covering development cost, they’ll need to be covering the lost profits for what pre acquisition (when it was originally in negotiation) would have been multi platform.

Blade (assuming it’s not on PlayStation) will probably cost them less as they’ve not had to change the terms, that would have been negotiated with it already in mind…but still won’t have been cheap, particularly as they are trying to revitalise the blade franchise.

Microsoft have obviously decided it’s worth hedging their bets. I’d love to see one day just how much these deals are costing them, but we probably need an insomniac style hack to ever find out.

All that said, the current rumblings about 1st party xbox games going multiplatform could feed into this. Time will tell on that.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Those splits do sound terrible for xbox.

But, if Gamepass isn't getting the uptake Microsoft hoped for and the digital only Series S is the most popular of Microsoft's consoles, would it make sense to guess that most of Microsoft's game sales are digital, and therefore not reflected in this boxed game chart?

Edit: Anecdotally - I've got a series X and I think I've only bought one physical game for it since owning it.

I suppose it might be a reach, but given that physical is cheaper and easier to sell on, it's likely the choice of the more price sensitive consumer, but the cheaper of Microsoft's consoles is digital only. So consumers that are more likely to buy the Series S than Series X based on price are perhaps likely to have been the people more likely to buy physical, but they're now buying digital.

 

[Insane Metal]

Xbox is completely dead in terms of game sales, those bad percentages are incredible and will make it even more difficult to compete in the future, people with 10-15 years of library on PS4-PS5 will not change platforms so easily.

It doesn't mean anything to them, it's all about engagement and MAU.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Pretty damning stats for xbox. It’s no wonder Sony is more easily able to get third party exclusivity deals looking at that, any publisher would be out of their mind to sacrifice 80-90% of their sales unless crazy amounts of cash were dumped in their lap.

Why do people think MS just outright bought Bethesda and ABK?

It's much much cheaper for them in the long run if they want games on GamePass. Especially if they do want to go 3rd party.
The fees MS would otherwise have to pay to cover the loss in revenue on Playstation would be insane.

 

[jroc74]

It would make sense if most Series models were the S no?

Yeah, that's right.

Its making more sense now.

Most ppl with a Series console have the S, MS is doing basically fire sales on both the S and XSX. They would discontinue the XSX before the S.

MS painted themselves into one hell of a corner this gen.