UK Charts 14/10/17 – FIFA 18 Spends A Third Week At The Top

Despite some major AAA releases coming out to challenge it for the top spot, FIFA 18 has stuck it out in first place in the UK retail charts this week. It’s followed by the new releases of Middle-earth: Shadow of War and THe Evil Within 2 from Warner Bros. and Bethesda respectively. The only other “new” release is then Friday the 13th: The Game, which has been available digitally for several months, and debuts in 15th place.

Of course, this is far from the full picture, as we’ve said numerous times, as digital purchases are taking a larger slice of the video games pie every year and these are not included in the UK charts. Friday the 13th has already had the bulk of its sales digitally, and would surely have been in contention for the top of the UK charts at its initial release, and we don’t know whether combining digital sales for Shadow of War or The Evil Within 2 would change the order at all. Compared to the first game Shadow of War dropped 18%, which is well within the digital sales margin of error, but The Evil Within 2 has dropped a huge 75% compared to the original’s release in October 2014.

Here’s the top 20:

Source: UKIE, MCVUK