Hitman 3 drops to number 11
Animal Crossing: New Horizons returns to the top of the UK boxed charts after temporarily losing its place to Hitman 3 last week.
IO Interactive’s stealth game drops to number 11, which may seem like a steep drop, but sales are actually down 68% from week to week and that’s a relatively normal drop for a core game in the second week of being on sale is.
Animal Crossing is # 1 despite a 12% drop in sales week-over-week, while Mario Kart 8: Deluxe moves up one place to # 2 after also dropping 12% the week before.
It wasn’t all drops, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War climbs two places to No. 3 after a 2% sales increase, while Grand Theft Auto 5 moves to No. 4 after a 7% sales increase.
Otherwise, it’s been a pretty quiet week for games retail. There are two new entries on the chart, PGA Tour 2K21 at No. 31 (sales up 52%) and Fortnite: The Last Laugh Bundle, which returns to No. 36 after a 50% increase in sales.
Next week is looking pretty quiet too, while the following week marks the launch of the first major game of the year: Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury on Nintendo Switch.
Here’s the GfK Top Ten for the week ending January 30:
| Last week | This week | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | Animal Crossing: New Horizons |
| 3 | 2 | Mario Kart 8: Deluxe |
| 5 | 3 | Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War |
| 6 | 4 | Grand Theft Auto 5 |
| 4 | 5 | Spider-Man: Miles Morales |
| 9 | 6 | Minecraft (switch) |
| 7 | 7 | Ring Fit Adventure |
| 8 | 8 | Just Dance 2021 |
| 11 | 9 | Super Mario 3D All-Stars |
| 10 | 10 | FIFA 21 |