But Paper Mario: The Origami King enjoys the biggest release in the series to date
PS4 exclusive Ghost of Tsushima was the best-selling physical game in the UK last week.
The action game didn’t come close to matching last month’s big PS4 release The Last of Us: Part 2, which isn’t surprising. However, its box-launch sales were 7% higher than last year’s new PS4 IP Days Gone, which is a more comparable product (although Ghost of Tsushima performed better with critics).
Ghost of Tsushima’s launch sales were four times larger than the other new game on the charts: Paper Mario: The Origami King for the Nintendo Switch. The comedy adventure game still reached number 2, and its first week sales are higher than the release of the last two Paper Mario games combined (2016 Paper Mario: Color Splash on Wii U and Paper Mario: Sticker Star 2012 on 3DS). In fact, its sales for the first week narrowly surpassed 2007’s Super Paper Mario, making this new game the best-selling Paper Mario yet. Also, download sales are not included (Super Paper Mario was not available digitally), and therefore the Switch game is likely to have been comfortably larger than its Wii predecessor.
The new titles mean that F1 2020’s tenure at the top of the charts is over, with the Codemasters game falling to No. 3 with a 59% drop in sales. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is at n. # 4 and The Last of Us Part 2 is at n. # 5, meaning we have a weird situation where every game in the top five was released during 2020.
There were no other new titles on the charts this week, although Forza Horizon 3 returns to the top 40 at No.26, and Super Mario Party has returned to No.29.
Here’s the GfK Top Ten for the week ending July 18
| Last week | This week | Title |
|---|---|---|
| New Entry | one | Ghost of tsushima |
| New Entry | two | Paper Mario: The Origami King |
| one | 3 | F1 2020 |
| two | 4 4 | Animal Crossing: New Horizons |
| 3 | 5 5 | The last of us part 2 |
| 4 4 | 6 6 | Mario Kart 8: Deluxe |
| 6 6 | 7 7 | Grand Theft Auto 5 |
| 5 5 | 8 | Minecraft (switch) |
| 10 | 9 | Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy |
| 8 | 10 | Luigi’s Mansion 3 |
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