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[onQ123]

Well folks, a new Monster Hunter game has come out, which means that Monster Hunter is predictably dominating the UK Charts. It wasn't always this way, but it's safe to say that the series has well and truly broken into the mainstream now. Surprisingly, however, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has actually managed to climb the charts to land just behind Monster Hunter Wilds and claim the silver medal.

This is despite the new release of PGA Tour 2K25, which itself debuted in third place. Lower down, we can see that Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection has just about scraped through to join the top ten ranks at number nine, while Nintendo's latest major release, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, slowly continues its descent to land at number eighteen.


Now, here's a look at the full top 40 for this week, with platform breakdowns for all of the titles available on other consoles as well as the Switch:

Last Week	This Week	Game	Platform Split
NEW	1	Monster Hunter Wilds
3	2	Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
NEW	3	PGA Tour 2K25
1	4	EA Sports FC 25	PS5 43%, Switch 26%, PS4 18%, Xbox 13%
8	5	Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate	PS5 75%, PS4 18%, Xbox 7%, Switch 1%
6	6	Minecraft
7	7	Super Mario Party Jamboree
4	8	Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
NEW	9	Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection
10	10	Animal Crossing: New Horizons
9	11	Grand Theft Auto V
14	12	Super Mario Bros. Wonder
16	13	Nintendo Switch Sports
5	14	Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
13	15	Sonic X Shadow Generations	Switch 46%, PS5 39%, PS4 8%, Xbox 7%
11	16	Hogwarts Legacy	Switch 46%, PS5 24%, PS4 15%, Xbox 8%
17	17	Star Wars Outlaws
15	18	Donkey Kong Country Returns
39	19	Red Dead Redemption	PS4 76%, Switch 24%
26	20	Astro Bot
33	21	Super Mario Odyssey
2	22	Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii
24	23	The Witcher III: Wild Hunt GOTY Edition
-	24	Batman Arkham Collection
21	25	Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga	PS5 51%, Switch 39%, PS4 6%, Xbox 4%
28	26	Dog Man: Mission Impawsible	Switch 84%, PS5 16%
-	27	Just Dance 2025 Edition	Switch 98%, PS4 2%
20	28	Mortal Kombat 1	PS5 91%, Switch 6%, Xbox 3%
23	29	WWE 2K24
32	30	Bluey: The Videogame	Switch 73%, PS5 21%, PS4 4%
-	31	Sonic Superstars	Switch 77%, PS5 9%, Xbox 7%, PS4 7%
-	32	Pokémon Violet
-	33	Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
38	34	The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Complete Edition
-	35	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
-	36	Sniper Elite: Resistance
-	37	Red Dead Redemption 2
-	38	Black Myth: Wukong
-	39	Assassin's Creed Mirage
-	40	The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

UK Charts: Mario Kart 8 Grabs Silver As Monster Hunter Wilds Makes Its Debut

A monstrous start

www.nintendolife.com

Sidenote: did all the people who used to post charts leave NeoGaf?

 

[tTHANOSs]

Where's Avowed?

 

[Gaiff]

Where's Avowed?

 

[Kacho]

Where's Avowed?

Trust the process

 

[Horseganador]

Avowed is already out of the top 40 just a couple of weeks after its release, it would be nice to know the sales figures for Monster Hunter Wilds, MK8 is unstoppable, MK9 will be released and will continue to be in the tops.

 

[SweetTooth]

Why they don't show splits to all games? CoD? GTA5?

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Why they don't show splits to all games? CoD? GTA5?

The sales report comes from Nintendolife, so they only do platform splits for multiplatform games that also release on the Switch.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

They want the CoD audience.

 

[Fake]

Where's Avowed?

In his mid place.

 

[onQ123]

They want the CoD audience.

Are you even in the right thread?

 

[kevboard]

Mario Kart 8 still absolutely insane in sales

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

MK8?

Are people just buying the game over and over again or what?

 

[Zacfoldor]

My fart in the wind analogy for Avowed is getting better by the day.

Why do PC gamers whine about MH but console gamers seem to love it?

Don't give me that shit about console gamers liking easier games. I've found the inverse to be true. Souls were always console games first. I was a pioneer pushing the great awakening. Asmon, like the others never played anything but WoW. We showed them the way. They didn't grow up with Nintendos like us, they were a gen too late.

We showed them true difficulty, like King's Field before it and Mega Man on NES before it. I also conquered WoW while I was fucking at it. PC kids born after me who never got into NES were always teams, discord, vent camper lazy bodies who liked to min-max. Us console gamers who grew up on Battletoads showed you what real difficulty was. It hasn't changed. You play with mouse and keyboard and call it an advantage. I call it a crutch.

With your secret loathing of fromsoft games and love of being carried, why are you now complaining about Wilds? Who pissed in your cheerios? I've been assured that even a GPU from 1492 could outdo the PS5 Pro on wilds so why am I having so much fun and you look like you just drank a cup of monkey piss?

 

[PeteBull]

Where's Avowed?

It didnt chart even last week, so week of its launch, so it was obvious this week it wont chart either, nor any other week, it bombed hard af, bro

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

I was a pioneer pushing the great awakening.

 

[onQ123]

MK8?

Are people just buying the game over and over again or what?

We are in a era of evergreen games

Mario Kart , GTA5 , Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, Mortal Kombat 11 , Red Dead Redemption 2

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Are you even in the right thread?

Yes.

 

[onQ123]

Yes.

What's the logic of posting an anonymous user review in a UK sales thread ?

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Where's Avowed?

Buggy Loop probably knows.

 

[Mr Moose]

Where's Avowed?

I was going to say it's digital only, but they sell a case with a code (which counts as physical) so umm... Bombed.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Buggy Loop probably knows.

Nintendolife UK charts tracks boxed physical copies.

How do you track something which has no physical release? You guys are trying really hard.

 

[mckmas8808]

Where's Avowed?

Great question....

 

[mckmas8808]

Nintendolife UK charts tracks boxed physical copies.

How do you track something which has no physical release? You guys are trying really hard.

MS has OFFICIALLY lost their damn minds! So now they aren't releasing box versions of their top 1st party games?! WTH are they thinking?!

 

[Mr Moose]

Nintendolife UK charts tracks boxed physical copies.

How do you track something which has no physical release? You guys are trying really hard.

They track this version:

 

[FreeY$L]

They want the CoD audience.

i'm the COD audience, i'm also part of the audience that played Monster Hunter on PS2. They've made a good game and trimmed the unimportant fat.

 

[Thebonehead]

They track this version:

Wait a second.

Is that premium edition just a download game code in a fancy box?

 

[Mattyp]

MS has OFFICIALLY lost their damn minds! So now they aren't releasing box versions of their top 1st party games?! WTH are they thinking?!

90% of Avowed gamers are on gamepass, they make more money from releasing it digital only. I’m sure they know exactly what they’re doing.

An entire thread shit up by every second comment by people butthurt who are never going to play the game but

 

[mckmas8808]

90% of Avowed gamers are on gamepass, they make more money from releasing it digital only. I’m sure they know exactly what they’re doing.

An entire thread shit up by every second comment by people butthurt who are never going to play the game but

You can't be serious with this comment bro. Tell me you're joking.

 

[Flabagast]

Why is KCD2 dropping so much ?

WTF people ? this is a once-in-a-generation masterpiece

 

[kevboard]

MK8?

Are people just buying the game over and over again or what?

only a bit more than half of all Switch owners have it yet...
so there is room for more

 

[Spitfire098]

90% of Avowed gamers are on gamepass, they make more money from releasing it digital only. I’m sure they know exactly what they’re doing.

An entire thread shit up by every second comment by people butthurt who are never going to play the game but

90% on gamepass...no wonder MS went 3rd party.

 

[Buggy Loop]

They track this version:

Yeah... which is mind boggling anyone would buy a steel case and premium price to access game early.

Last time I saw a digital code "premium" upgrade chart on UK charts was Starfield which was hugely hyped.

Wait a second.

Is that premium edition just a download game code in a fancy box?

Yup.

You have to be a special person to order that crap lol

No physical at all for Avowed.

 

[Mattyp]

You can't be serious with this comment bro. Tell me you're joking.

Tell me how they make more off physically producing the media, then shipping it to stores and the stores getting their 30% cut to people buying it direct from the Xbox store?

There’s a reason Sony and Microsoft both want you buying digitally only.

 

[Skifi28]

They want the CoD audience.

Superficial reasons to hate something: The list.

• There is an arena and there'll be dozens of fights in it as they release events. Also, it was never really a huge part of the game.
• People have always hated egg delivery quests, most annoying and pointless quests in the game. Good riddance.
• Who the hell cares about some made-up language. It was a novelty at best, can't imagine anyone being seriously upset about it.
• You could summon NPCs in Sunbreak. Oh noes, somebody beat a single player quests without "deserving" it, my epeen is ruined!
• MH is not just 5 screens glued together with loading screens anymore, as maps get bigger and more complicated there needs to be a way to get to the monster with ease as it has always been the case in the games. Your mount doesn't have to run automatically, it's a choice.

 

[onQ123]

Tell me how they make more off physically producing the media, then shipping it to stores and the stores getting their 30% cut to people buying it direct from the Xbox store?

There’s a reason Sony and Microsoft both want you buying digitally only.

As you can see from the results of nothing really selling on Xbox consoles anymore, retail presences is important for console games .

 

[mckmas8808]

Tell me how they make more off physically producing the media, then shipping it to stores and the stores getting their 30% cut to people buying it direct from the Xbox store?

There’s a reason Sony and Microsoft both want you buying digitally only.

Why lie with the bolded? Sony has never said or pushed their customers to buy digital only. Plus you make more money by selling the physical copy to a wider base of customers. By making the game digital only, MS is losing potential buyers.

 

[phant0m]

We are in a era of evergreen games

Mario Kart , GTA5 , Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, Mortal Kombat 11 , Red Dead Redemption 2

I swear a copy of GTA V and MK8 have been sold for every human on this planet

 

[Mattyp]

As you can see from the results of nothing really selling on Xbox consoles anymore, retail presences is important for console games .

Even Sonys own gamers buy at 80% digital, this has nothing to do with Microsoft besides Gamepass and the S their most popular console accelerating the process for them.

Why lie with the bolded? Sony has never said or pushed their customers to buy digital only. Plus you make more money by selling the physical copy to a wider base of customers. By making the game digital only, MS is losing potential buyers.

Of course they’ve never said it outright why would they and face the backlash, but they released their PRO console without a disc drive on purpose. For next gen when no SKUs come with one out of the gate. Why would this be otherwise?

How is it a wider base of customers? Every single console owner can open up the dashboard and purchase compared to going to their local shop on a 1 hour round trip to pick a title instead.

This is absolute fucking nuts talk if you don’t think Sony is pushing customers towards digital only as well even most Sony fanatics would agree with this point.

 

[nial]

Nintendolife UK charts tracks boxed physical copies.

How do you track something which has no physical release? You guys are trying really hard.

Well, this is news to me. So they're fully done with standard physical releases, then? (Not like the Premium Edition seems to be much of physical, anyway...)
I was told that Hellblade 2 didn't get one last year due to it not being a full-priced game, but then Avowed costs $70, so...

 

[onQ123]

Even Sonys own gamers buy at 80% digital, this has nothing to do with Microsoft besides Gamepass and the S their most popular console accelerating the process for them.



Of course they’ve never said it outright why would they and face the backlash, but they released their PRO console without a disc drive on purpose. For next gen when no SKUs come with one out of the gate. Why would this be otherwise?

How is it a wider base of customers? Every single console owner can open up the dashboard and purchase compared to going to their local shop on a 1 hour round trip to pick a title instead.

This is absolute fucking nuts talk if you don’t think Sony is pushing customers towards digital only as well even most Sony fanatics would agree with this point.

That 22% at retail is still doing it's job of advertising & picking up impulse buyers .

 

[mckmas8808]

Even Sonys own gamers buy at 80% digital, this has nothing to do with Microsoft besides Gamepass and the S their most popular console accelerating the process for them.



Of course they’ve never said it outright why would they and face the backlash, but they released their PRO console without a disc drive on purpose. For next gen when no SKUs come with one out of the gate. Why would this be otherwise?

How is it a wider base of customers? Every single console owner can open up the dashboard and purchase compared to going to their local shop on a 1 hour round trip to pick a title instead.

This is absolute fucking nuts talk if you don’t think Sony is pushing customers towards digital only as well even most Sony fanatics would agree with this point.

1. You are ignoring the digital buy rate of Sony's own 1st party games.
2. You are ignoring "HOW" gamers buy games in different regions of the world.
3. The PS5 Pro has an optional disc drive that people can buy to add to their system.

 

[onQ123]

1. You are ignoring the digital buy rate of Sony's own 1st party games.
2. You are ignoring "HOW" gamers buy games in different regions of the world.
3. The PS5 Pro has an optional disc drive that people can buy to add to their system.

They use the digital sales to escape reality but even using the digital split it still doesn't paint a pretty picture, for example


We have Split Fiction coming out in a few days & the sales on Amazon US right now has PS5 version with 2K + & Xbox version with 200+ ,

If PS5 is 22% physical & Xbox Series is 9% physical & we remove the + because it's unknown & only use the known numbers.

Xbox Series would be around 2,222 total sold which is around the same as PS5 physical only but adding PS5 digital sales take it up to around 9,090 total & that's showing a better picture for Xbox because the unknown for 2K+ could be as high as 2,999 while the unknown for 200+ can only be as high as 299

 

[mckmas8808]

They use the digital sales to escape reality but even using the digital split it still doesn't paint a pretty picture, for example


We have Split Fiction coming out in a few days & the sales on Amazon US right now has PS5 version with 2K + & Xbox version with 200+ ,

If PS5 is 22% physical & Xbox Series is 9% physical & we remove the + because it's unknown & only use the known numbers.

Xbox Series would be around 2,222 total sold which is around the same as PS5 physical only but adding PS5 digital sales take it up to around 9,090 total & that's showing a better picture for Xbox because the unknown for 2K+ could be as high as 2,999 while the unknown for 200+ can only be as high as 299

Is this in America's Amazon store front?

 

[onQ123]

Is this in America's Amazon store front?

Yes ( the 80% digital number he used come from the US data that said PlayStation games was 78% digital in 2024 )

 

[mckmas8808]

Yes ( the 80% digital number he used come from the US data that said PlayStation games was 78% digital in 2024 )

So a possible 5 to 1 sales difference in America, for a well round 3rd party game like Split Fiction is wild to me!

I can't imagine the difference in sales globally for this game.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

90% of Avowed gamers are on gamepass, they make more money from releasing it digital only. I’m sure they know exactly what they’re doing.

How does that work?

If 90% of Avowed gamers are on GP, they're not buying either physical, nor digital.

Then again, digital copies tend to be more expensive than physical, so you've got a point there.

 

[Mattyp]

How does that work?

If 90% of Avowed gamers are on GP, they're not buying either physical, nor digital.

Then again, digital copies tend to be more expensive than physical, so you've got a point there.

The point was they just have no interest in releasing physical first party titles for every title they release now, their money is keeping people people subscribed to gamepass and they know that’s where the vast majority of xbox owners will consume their content unless it’s Forza or a title I really love for xbox I’ll just consume via gamepass now. I believe cross platform titles will still get physical releases for now. (PlayStation/xbox) or even larger titles like Halo, Forza, Doom.

Digital in Australia anyway is always more expensive, they don’t have to pay the store owners, or pay for the physical production costs what’s it cost to produce and ship a game?

It’s nuts to me arguing that Sony & Microsoft don’t want everyone buying digital if they had the choice.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

The point was they just have no interest in releasing physical first party titles for every title they release now, their money is keeping people people subscribed to gamepass and they know that’s where the vast majority of xbox owners will consume their content unless it’s Forza or a title I really love for xbox I’ll just consume via gamepass now.

And this is what's killing the Xbox brand.

What's worse, is that to make this a viable strategy, their 1st party output is practically forced to be mediocre GP-filler as to not turn things into a financial disaster. Which in turn leads to even less sales, whether it's digital or physical.

Digital in Australia anyway is always more expensive, they don’t have to pay the store owners, or pay for the physical production costs what’s it cost to produce and ship a game?

It’s nuts to me arguing that Sony & Microsoft don’t want everyone buying digital if they had the choice.

Well yeah, ofcourse they want people to buy digital.

I myself have been buying my PS games strictly digital for almost 10 or so years now.

 

[Mattyp]

And this is what's killing the Xbox brand.

What's worse, is that to make this a viable strategy, their 1st party output is practically forced to be mediocre GP-filler as to not turn things into a financial disaster. Which in turn leads to even less sales, whether it's digital or physical.

It’s killing the brand in console sales against Sony, gaming itself is turning over more than ever and that’s Microsoft’s end goal like all their departments that revenue will increase even more when they start dropping on Playstation & Switch 2.

GP filler, Indiana Jones & Avowed are both great games. I’m sure Doom & Tony Hawk their next two releases will be amazing as well.

 

[onQ123]

It’s killing the brand in console sales against Sony, gaming itself is turning over more than ever and that’s Microsoft’s end goal like all their departments that revenue will increase even more when they start dropping on Playstation & Switch 2.

GP filler, Indiana Jones & Avowed are both great games. I’m sure Doom & Tony Hawk their next two releases will be amazing as well.

You're either easily fooled or you think others are easily fooled.