It’s been a very quiet week at retail in the UK
Minecraft on Switch was the UK’s best-selling boxed title for the week ending January 15 – sales of the SKU were up 112% week-on-week.
It was followed by FIFA 22, which held steady at No. 2 for the third week in a row.
Super Mario Party ranked #3, growing 386% week-over-week following various retailer sales.
Last week’s #1, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, settled for #4 with a 38% drop in sales.
Two titles returned to the charts in good position this week: Minecraft Dungeons took 7th place with a 387% growth, and WarioWare: Get it Together landed in 12th place with a 465% increase in sales of a week to week. Both were boosted by retailer promotions.
Boxed unit sales across all titles were down 26% week-over-week as the industry slowly gears up for a number of big releases in the coming weeks, including Pokémon Legends Arceus, Rainbow Six Extraction and Elden Ring.
Here is the GfK UK Boxed Top Ten for the week ending January 15:
| Last week | This week | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | Minecraft (switch) |
| 2 | 2 | FIFA 22 |
| 29 | 3 | Super Mario Party |
| 1 | 4 | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe |
| 3 | 5 | Animal Crossing: New Horizons |
| 5 | 6 | Call of Duty: Vanguard |
| back to school | seven | Minecraft Dungeons |
| 9 | 8 | Just dance 2022 |
| 6 | 9 | Ring shaped adventure |
| ten | ten | Auto grand theft 5 |