{"id":1172,"date":"2017-10-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/fifa_18_on_nintendo_switch_accounts_for_a_tiny_percentage_of_uk_launch_sales"},"modified":"2017-10-02T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T10:00:00","slug":"fifa-18-on-nintendo-switch-accounts-for-a-tiny-percentage-of-uk-launch-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/fifa-18-on-nintendo-switch-accounts-for-a-tiny-percentage-of-uk-launch-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA 18 on Nintendo Switch Accounts for a Tiny Percentage of UK Launch Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"FIFA 18 Switch.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/fifa_18_on_nintendo_switch_accounts_for_a_tiny_percentage_of_uk_launch_sales\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/fifa_18_on_nintendo_switch_accounts_for_a_tiny_percentage_of_uk_launch_sales\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"FIFA 18 Switch.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_18\">FIFA 18<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>has been a notable release on Nintendo hardware in the past week, a first for a number of years. Plenty of focus has been on assessing whether the Switch audience will back the game and, as a result, encourage EA to continue support. Based on initial UK launch results we&#8217;ll need to get used to the Switch iteration continuing as secondary to its &#8216;main&#8217; releases, however &#8211; at least if EA follows the money with its investment.<\/p>\n<p>The football title took number one in the UK, of course, but it&#8217;s the breakdown of sales that are most startling. 97% of sales units for the release were shared between Xbox One and PS4, leaving just 3% left over for Switch and &#8216;Legacy&#8217; releases on Xbox 360 \/ PS3. In fact, in the single format results we can see that the hefty Xbox 360 userbase is still keen on the series; the 360 version finished 5th in the single-format chart with Switch in 7th place. 7th in the single-format results isn&#8217;t necessarily terrible for the Switch version, but it is very modest by FIFA standards.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on to other Switch titles, a host of familiar names are still shifting units and appearing in the all-format top 40.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>climbed a place to grab 10th, while\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokken_tournament_dx\"><strong>Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX<\/strong><\/a> drops nine places to 14th in its second week.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>finished the week in 17th, while some GAME hardware bundles may have helped\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/rayman_legends_definitive_edition\">Rayman Legends: Definitive Edition<\/a><\/strong> move up to 18th.<\/p>\n<p>Moving outside the top 20 we have\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_plus_rabbids_kingdom_battle\">Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in 23rd,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\">Splatoon 2<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in 32nd\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/1-2-switch\">1-2-Switch<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in 37th; throw in a decent contribution of the Switch version of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/lego_worlds\">LEGO\u00a0Worlds<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in that title&#8217;s overall top 10 placing and it was a decent week for games on Nintendo&#8217;s latest system.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unsurprisingly quieter on the 3DS front, with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/metroid_samus_returns\">Metroid: Samus Returns<\/a><\/strong> dropping out of the top 40 entirely. The only representatives for the portable are\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gbc\/pokemon_gold_and_silver\">Pokemon Gold and Silver<\/a><\/strong> in 33rd (Silver) and 38th (Gold).<\/p>\n<p>Let us know if you were among those to pick up FIFA on Switch; it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how it performs in other territories, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA 18\u00a0has been a notable release on Nintendo hardware in the past week, a first for a number of years. Plenty of focus has been on assessing whether the Switch audience will back the game and, as a result, encourage EA to continue support. Based on initial UK launch results we&#8217;ll need to get used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}