Brace yourselves, here come the stats! Black Friday boosted game sales by +89% compared to last week, and hardware sales rocketed with the PS4 having it’s best week ever other than launch week. The official hardware bundles contributed to 83% of all hardware sales during the week which means the charts are dominated by games that were packaged with consoles, Call of Duty: WWII takes top spot, FIFA 18 comes in second and Gran Turismo Sport races back up the charts to third place.
PlayStation VR Worlds jumps up the chart as it was bundled with headset and PSVR hardware sales have equalled those of launch week, and sales of the fancy hat last week were the equivalent of the previous eighteen weeks combined. Nice to see the PlayLink titles also getting some love, Knowledge is Power debuting at No14 and Hidden Agenda debuting at No15.
| LW | TW | Title | Age Rating | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | CALL OF DUTY: WWII | PEGI 18+ | ACTIVISION |
| 3 | 2 | FIFA 18 | PEGI 3+ | EA SPORTS |
| 12 | 3 | GRAN TURISMO: SPORT | PEGI 3+ | SONY |
| 2 | 4 | STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT II | PEGI 16+ | EA GAMES |
| 6 | 5 | ASSASSIN’S CREED ORIGINS | PEGI 18+ | UBISOFT |
| 15 | 6 | FORZA MOTORSPORT 7 | PEGI 3+ | MICROSOFT |
| 18 | 7 | WOLFENSTEIN II: THE NEW COLOSSUS | PEGI 18+ | BETHESDA |
| 9 | 8 | SUPER MARIO ODYSSEY | PEGI 7+ | NINTENDO |
| 23 | 9 | FALLOUT 4 | PEGI 18+ | BETHESDA |
| 11 | 10 | NEED FOR SPEED PAYBACK | PEGI 12+ | EA GAMES |
| 20 | 11 | PLAYSTATION VR WORLDS | PEGI 16+ | SONY |
| 16 | 12 | FORZA HORIZON 3 | PEGI 3+ | MICROSOFT |
| 21 | 13 | WWE 2K18 | PEGI 16+ | 2K |
| 14 | KNOWLEDGE IS POWER | PEGI 7+ | SONY | |
| 15 | HIDDEN AGENDA | PEGI 18+ | SONY | |
| 13 | 16 | CRASH BANDICOOT N.SANE TRILOGY | PEGI 7+ | ACTIVISION |
| 14 | 17 | GRAND THEFT AUTO V | PEGI 18+ | ROCKSTAR |
| 32 | 18 | DESTINY 2 | PEGI 16+ | ACTIVISION |
| 22 | 19 | MARIO KART 8 DELUXE | PEGI 3+ | NINTENDO |
| 24 | 20 | DOOM | PEGI 18+ | BETHESDA |
| 4 | 21 | POKEMON ULTRA SUN | PEGI 7+ | NINTENDO |
| 7 | 22 | THE SIMS 4 | PEGI 12+ | EA GAMES |
| 40 | 23 | SOUTH PARK: THE FRACTURED BUT WHOLE | PEGI 18+ | UBISOFT |
| 19 | 24 | THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM VR | PEGI 18+ | BETHESDA |
| 10 | 25 | LEGO MARVEL SUPER HEROES 2 | PEGI 7+ | WARNER BROS |
| 33 | 26 | MARIO + RABBIDS KINGDOM BATTLE | PEGI 7+ | UBISOFT |
| 30 | 27 | MIDDLE-EARTH: SHADOW OF WAR | PEGI 18+ | WARNER BROS |
| 5 | 28 | POKEMON ULTRA MOON | PEGI 7+ | NINTENDO |
| 29 | THE EVIL WITHIN 2 | PEGI 18+ | BETHESDA | |
| 35 | 30 | THE LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE VIDEOGAME | PEGI 7+ | WARNER BROS |
| 29 | 31 | OVERWATCH: GAME OF THE YEAR EDITION | PEGI 12+ | BLIZZARD |
| 38 | 32 | UNCHARTED: THE LOST LEGACY | PEGI 16+ | SONY |
| 17 | 33 | SONIC FORCES | PEGI 7+ | SEGA |
| 27 | 34 | TOM CLANCY’S RAINBOW 6: SIEGE | PEGI 18+ | UBISOFT |
| 28 | 35 | THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD | PEGI 12+ | NINTENDO |
| 25 | 36 | LEGO WORLDS | PEGI 7+ | WARNER BROS |
| 37 | JUST DANCE 2018 | PEGI 3+ | UBISOFT | |
| 8 | 38 | L.A. NOIRE | PEGI 18+ | ROCKSTAR |
| 39 | NBA 2K18 | PEGI 3+ | 2K | |
| 36 | 40 | RESIDENT EVIL 7: BIOHAZARD | PEGI 18+ | CAPCOM |
Ukie Games Charts ©, compiled by GfK
ron_mcphatty
Black Friday madness! The plummeting prices of GT Sport were incredible, glad to see if helped shift a few consoles, I’m really enjoying it. And also good to see Battlefront 2 doing well despite loot box gate. Three weeks until Star Wars, weeee!
zb100
Yeah, I finally picked it up on Friday too!
leeroye
Your happy that a premium game with pay to win elements is doing well???
Personally i pray the game tanks big time.
ron_mcphatty
Yeah definitely, not because of the pay-to-win elements which I probably feel similarly but less strongly as you do about, but because it’s Star Wars. I don’t think the crap gets in the way of me enjoying some the beautifully crafted environments and straightforward fun, and I’m sort of lucky in that with kids my time on the PlayStation is limited so I’m not too upset about the rubbish progression. The framework is meh but I honestly think the game underneath is truly awesome :)