Proving just how popular the FIFA franchise is, FIFA 15’s debut accounted for 80% of all video games sold at retail in the UK last week, and even more impressive, it made up 87% of the overall revenue. Comparing this to FIFA 14’s first week (adding in the November PS4 & Xbox One launch week), FIFA 15 was about the same in units sold, while revenue was up 6%.
For a breakdown of sales, FIFA 15 didn’t experience the major gap most titles see between new-gen and last-gen, as the PS4/Xbox One combined for 54% and PS3/360 combined for 45%.
Here’s the top 20 selling retail games in the UK for the week ending September 20, 2014, according to GfK Chart-track:
- FIFA 15
- Destiny
- Disney Infinity 2.0
- Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
- Call of Duty: Ghosts
- Watch Dogs
- The Sims 4
- Fantasy LIfe
- Minecraft: PS3 Edition
- Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare
- The Last of Us Remastered
- The LEGO Movie Videogame
- Hyrule Warriors
- Grand Theft Auto V
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
- Tomodachi Life
- Terraria
- Diablo III: Reaper of Souls – Ultimate Evil Edition
- Frozen: Olaf’s Quest
- Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
Will Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor have any chance of beating FIFA 15’s second week total?
[Source: GfK Chart-Track (1), (2)]
