While physical sales for video games are down once again year on year, they are still an important way for consumers to play video games and with some of the price drops we’ve seen on newly released physical games here in the UK its still the cheapest method for playing games. Today we have the data for the top ten best-selling video games in the United Kingdom and you’ll notice Mario Kart 8 Deluxe there along with Pokemon Sword.
Here is the 2019 (physical) UK Top Ten (GfK data via ERA):
| Ranking | Title | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | FIFA 20 | 1,502,191 |
| 2 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 1,192,211 |
| 3 | Mario Kart 8: Deluxe | 465,062 |
| 4 | Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order | 438,465 |
| 5 | Red Dead Redemption 2 | 306,392 |
| 6 | FIFA 19 | 278,417 |
| 7 | Pokémon Sword | 273,991 |
| 8 | Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled | 267,285 |
| 9 | Grand Theft Auto V | 247,357 |
| 10 | Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 | 237,226 |
Surprised that Pokémon didn’t sell more. I thought that was one of the games that targeted physical releases.
}{ Do the numbers for Pokemon include both versions or just Sword? }{
Just Sword. Shield was usually put as a different game in the weekly list
Just Sword otherwise it would be one place higher in the chart 👍