Soccer sim fends off Name of Obligation to take coveted spot

Statutory physique GfK has launched the ultimate UK Chart placings earlier than Christmas, revealing that Digital Arts’ soccer sim FIFA 23 is formally 2022’s Christmas No.1, no less than in regard to bodily recreation gross sales.

Using excessive on a wave of World Cup fever, FIFA 23 efficiently fended off advances from each Activision’s Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare II and Sony Santa Monica’s God of Warfare: Ragnarok with a view to retain its primary place for the coveted Christmas weekend. For a few years now, the battle to be the star atop the Christmas Tree has been waged between the FIFA and Name of Obligation franchises. FIFA has now taken the spot on 10 separate events, whereas Name of Obligation has racked up a still-impressive 9.

FIFA 23 represents the collection’ remaining launch to obtain official branding from the soccer regulatory physique FIFA. As of the following launch, the mega-selling franchise will likely be rebranded as EA Sports activities FC.

Elsewhere within the charts, the one new bodily launch was Sq. Enix’s Disaster Core: Ultimate Fantasy 7 Reunion, which made a modest debut throughout the Prime Ten at quantity eight. As is at all times the case through the holidays, the rest of the Prime 20 is packed out with Nintendo Swap releases, together with Pokemon Scarlet & Violet at numbers seven and 5 respectively, Minecraft Swap at quantity 9, Nintendo Swap Sports activities at quantity six, and the ever-present Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at quantity 4.

U.Ok. online game gross sales chart w/e: December 17, 2022
(Chart displays in-store bodily gross sales solely)

1. FIFA 23 – Digital Arts
2. Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare II – Activision
3. God of Warfare Ragnarok – Sony Interactive Leisure
4. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Nintendo
5. Pokemon Violet – Nintendo
6. Nintendo Swap Sports activities – Nintendo
7. Pokemon Scarlet – Nintendo
8. Disaster Core: Ultimate Fantasy VII Reunion – Sq. Enix
9. Minecraft: Swap Version – Nintendo
10. Simply Dance 2023 – Ubisoft

U.Ok. Video Recreation Charts [GamesIndustry.biz]