{"id":117989,"date":"2020-09-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/uk_charts_animal_crossing_sneaks_back_into_third_as_switch_takes_four_of_the_top_ten"},"modified":"2020-09-14T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T09:00:00","slug":"uk-charts-animal-crossing-sneaks-back-into-third-as-switch-takes-four-of-the-top-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/14\/uk-charts-animal-crossing-sneaks-back-into-third-as-switch-takes-four-of-the-top-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Charts: Animal Crossing Sneaks Back Into Third As Switch Takes Four Of The Top Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/54f5d96d4028d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/54f5d96d4028d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Animal Crossing New Horizons\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/54f5d96d4028d\/animal-crossing-new-horizons.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/54f5d96d4028d\/animal-crossing-new-horizons.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Animal Crossing New Horizons\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>UK chart data is now in for the week ending 12th September, revealing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\"><strong>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/strong><\/a> is Nintendo&#8217;s highest-charting title once again.<\/p>\n<p>The game managed to creep back up into third place this week, fending off new release, <strong>Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning<\/strong>. <strong>Marvel&#8217;s Avengers<\/strong> and <strong>Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater 1 + 2<\/strong> remain in first and second places respectively after achieving those positions in their opening weeks last time out.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the physical release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/minecraft_dungeons\"><strong>Minecraft Dungeons<\/strong><\/a> has debuted in sixth place, with the Switch version accounting for 72% of those sales. It&#8217;s been another decent week on the whole for Switch, with four of the top ten being exclusive to Nintendo&#8217;s platform.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at this week&#8217;s top ten all formats chart:<\/p>\n<p>[Compiled by GFK]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/uk_charts_several_new_releases_push_animal_crossing_new_horizons_down_to_fourth_place2\">&lt; Last week&#8217;s charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Did you buy any of these chart-topping games this week? Let us know down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK chart data is now in for the week ending 12th September, revealing that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is Nintendo&#8217;s highest-charting title once again. The game managed to creep back up into third place this week, fending off new release, Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. Marvel&#8217;s Avengers and Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater 1 + 2 remain [&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-117989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117989","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=117989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}