{"id":118777,"date":"2020-10-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/nintendo_is_absolutely_killing_it_in_the_uk_right_now"},"modified":"2020-10-01T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:00:00","slug":"nintendo-is-absolutely-killing-it-in-the-uk-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/01\/nintendo-is-absolutely-killing-it-in-the-uk-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Is Absolutely Killing It In The UK Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bd823e6ae90cb\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bd823e6ae90cb\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Super Mario 3d All Stars\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bd823e6ae90cb\/super-mario-3d-all-stars.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bd823e6ae90cb\/super-mario-3d-all-stars.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Super Mario 3d All Stars\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo has dominated the UK charts throughout September in terms of both software and hardware sales, a new <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2020-09-30-nintendo-switch-dominates-in-september-uk-monthly-charts\">GamesIndustry.biz report<\/a> reveals.<\/p>\n<p>GfK Entertainment data suggests that more than 1.07 million physical games were sold in the UK last month, with 41.7% of those being Switch titles. The majority of those Switch games were Nintendo-published titles, too, with the Big N&#8217;s mascot names accounting for 32.3% of the country&#8217;s physical game sales throughout the month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_3d_all-stars\">Super Mario 3D All-Stars<\/a> unsurprisingly came out on top, managing to narrowly outsell the heavily marketed <strong>Marvel&#8217;s Avengers<\/strong> which released on rival platforms. You can see the UK&#8217;s top 20 physical games for September 2020 below.<\/p>\n<p>146,000 gaming consoles are reported to have been sold in the UK throughout September, with Switch being top of the pile. In fact, Switch sales are up 90% when compared with the same time period in 2019, and PS4 and Xbox One are also seeing year-on-year growth despite their next-generation systems being just around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has dominated the UK charts throughout September in terms of both software and hardware sales, a new GamesIndustry.biz report reveals. GfK Entertainment data suggests that more than 1.07 million physical games were sold in the UK last month, with 41.7% of those being Switch titles. The majority of those Switch games were Nintendo-published titles, [&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-118777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118777","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=118777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}