The latest UK video game boxed-software charts have come through for the week ending 1st July, 2023. This week has seen a return to the top spot for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom which was dethroned last week by Final Fantasy XVI for Sony’s popular PlayStation 5 console. Final Fantasy XVI is now at No.2. One of the new entries this week is Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life which arrived at No. 7.
“The next new game in the charts is Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, which debuts at No.7. This is a remake of a much loved Harvest Moon game from 2003, which was initially released on Nintendo GameCube. The remake performed best on Nintendo Switch, which accounted for 89% of sales. 9% of sales were on PS5, with the remaining 2% on Xbox consoles. Note: Digital data is not available for this title.”
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Here is the GfK UK Boxed Top Ten for the week ending 1st July, 2023:
| Last Week | This Week | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom |
| 1 | 2 | Final Fantasy 16 |
| New Entry | 3 | AEW: Fight Forever |
| 6 | 4 | God of War Ragnarok |
| 7 | 5 | Mario Kart 8: Deluxe |
| 10 | 6 | FIFA 23 |
| New Entry | 7 | Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life |
| 9 | 8 | Hogwarts Legacy |
| 4 | 9 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 |
| 3 | 10 | Sonic Origins Plus |
Crazy to see Mario Kart after all these years still selling so well.
Figured “Story of Seasons” would rank higher, my only complaint(s) about “A Wonderful Life” is that each season is only 10 days that’s hardly enough time to grow crops that are season specific considering Pioneers of Olive Town each season is roughly 28-30 days.
Besides that i kinda wish “A Wonderful Life” had a merchant that was always in town so players can sell unwanted items. The merchant named Van only shows up on the 3rd and the 8th of each season. Sure, you can open your own temporary shop and sell items to random Npc’s but i wish the town had a shop you can just sell any unwanted items anytime you want and not wait until the travelling merchant shows up on the 3rd and the 8th of each season. The shipping bin by your house is decent, but you can only ship items grown on your farm.
I wonder how Pikmin 4 is going to do? Will the game temporarily bring Pikmin 3 back up in the rank like how TOTK did with BOTW. In a few weeks, I shall get my answer.
I think we can glean from this and other bits of news like its Japan sales that Final Fantasy XVI has been a relative flop. Its sales certainly can’t be living up to the expectations of Square Enix.
To SE it’s only a flop of it’s a western studio. FF16 could’ve done 12 copies and they would’ve celebrated like it’s the best selling FF game to date.
Goodbye traditional Zelda games
I’m going to miss them