The latest UK physical video game software charts are now in and the newly released The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD for the Nintendo Switch is No.1 this week. The game is the fourth game in The Legend of Zelda series to reach No.1 following Link’s Awakening(Switch), Wind Waker(Gamecube) and Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64). You may be wondering why The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the wild wasn’t No.1, but it went up against Horizon: Zero Dawn on the PlayStation 4 in 2017. Here’s the GfK Top Ten for the week ending 17th July:
| Last Week | This Week | Title |
|---|---|---|
| New Entry | 1 | The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD |
| New Entry | 2 | F1 2021 |
| 2 | 3 | FIFA 21 |
| 5 | 4 | Mario Kart 8: Deluxe |
| 6 | 5 | Animal Crossing: New Horizons |
| 7 | 6 | Minecraft (Switch) |
| 11 | 7 | Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury |
| 9 | 8 | Grand Theft Auto 5 |
| 4 | 9 | Mario Golf: Super Rush |
| 1 | 10 | Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart |
seriously? BOTW lost the spot to Horizen in the UK yikes!
Well remember it was a launch game, where there would’ve been about 500k Switches available max, versus an install base of about 80 million PS4’s so pretty obvious why it beat it.
I thought this game was “trash”?
No credible person said that.
Lots of credible people have said that, although slightly hyperbolically. Although I’m not sure a game with massive brand recognition facing zero competition in new adventure games right now selling well for one week is necessarily the best argument for the games’ brilliance.
If you want to argue about the quality of the criticism the game faced, you’re going to have to actually at least mention what that criticism was, so you can explain how it is invalid.
I used to say that the UK was a terrible spot for Nintendo but very hard to say that now. 6 of the top 10 are Switch exclusives and a full-price remaster of a 10 year old game is number 1. Wow.
I think a lot of switch owners who have played botw, but not ss are buying it because of their love of botw.
Ss is a great game, but it’s quite different from botw. Some people will be disappointed even though ss is a great game.
Everyone acts like they’ve never played the Wii version, and this is a new thing. Though to some, it IS new to them. My point? I really don’t know.