Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare 3 has topped the UK bodily sport charts, but it surely’s didn’t hit the launch weekend gross sales numbers that its predecessor did.
In accordance with GfK chart knowledge (by way of GamesIndustry.biz), Activsion’s newest FPS went straight into the charts at primary, however bodily gross sales have been down 25% in comparison with these of Fashionable Warfare 2 final 12 months.
The sport is at the moment on monitor to be the lowest-rated entry within the collection, with early Metacritic scores from each critics and customers coming in a lot decrease than regular.
On X (previously Twitter), GI.Biz head Christopher Dring identified that 72% of Fashionable Warfare 3 launch gross sales have been on PS5, with 20% on Xbox and eight% on PS4. “Clearly, digital knowledge will change all this,” he notes.
Elsewhere within the charts, EA Sports activities FC holds agency on the quantity 2 slot it occupied final week, whereas Tremendous Mario Bros Marvel – which had been primary for the previous two weeks – has now dropped to quantity 3.
Spider-Man 2 has slipped down from third to fourth place, whereas the Prime 10’s different new entry, Soccer Supervisor 2024, is available in at quantity 5.
As ever, it must be famous that these are bodily sport charts, which means digital gross sales aren’t taken into consideration. Given how few bodily PC video games are offered now, for instance, the overwhelming majority of Soccer Supervisor 2024’s gross sales are more likely to have been digital.
The one different new bodily entry coming into the charts this week is Disney Dreamlight Valley, which got here in at quantity 32. The sport was orginally alleged to go free-to-play till Gameloft determined to maintain it as a premium product and launch it bodily.
