Regardless of the brand new releases coming into the UK bodily gross sales chart for the week ending October 22, 2022, FIFA 23 is the best-selling sport for the third straight week. A 19% decline in gross sales saved EA’s newest FIFA title in the number one spot the place it has remained since its launch. The most important problem FIFA has had thus far got here final week from WB Montreal’s Gotham Knights which debuts at #2. The most recent DC Comics title offered impressively nicely on the PlayStation 5 which accounted for 78% of complete gross sales with the rest coming from the Xbox Collection X.
Ubisoft’s second Mario sport, the Swap unique Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope offered nicely sufficient to say the third place for the week. A Plague Story: Requiem from Asobo Studio launched the identical day as Mario+Rabbids and completed the week in fifth place. Asobo Studio’s prior title, A Plague Story: Innocence debuted at #9 again in 2019 throughout every week with much less fierce competitors. 90% of the gross sales for A Plague Story: Requiem was on the PlayStation 5 with the Xbox Collection X representing the final 10%.
The final of the large new releases within the high spots on the chart is Persona 5 Royal at quantity 6. Beforehand launched for the PlayStation 4, this final week noticed Atlus’ hit JRPG come to the Swap and current-generation consoles. 79% of complete gross sales had been on the Swap adopted by 17% on the PlayStation 5 and 4% on the Xbox Collection X.
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed additionally made its debut this week at quantity 15, nicely out of the highest 10. The most recent from Illfonic Studio made 56% of its gross sales on the PlayStation 5, 23% from the Xbox Collection X, and 21% on the PlayStation 4.
Total, the weekly chart highlights bodily gross sales on the Swap with half of the highest 10 occupied by Swap unique titles and over 75% of all Persona 5 Royal gross sales being for Nintendo’s moveable platform. Splatoon 3 continued to slip week over week from its sturdy debut, touchdown again at quantity 7 this week, after inserting within the quantity 4 spot final week. The one different console unique to put inside the high 10 chart is Horizon: Forbidden West on the PlayStation 5 which additionally dropped 5 spots to eighth place for the week.
Under are the best-selling boxed video video games within the UK for the week ending October 22, 2022:
