{"id":119227,"date":"2020-10-12T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/uk_charts_fifa_21_goes_straight_to_number_one_but_only_2_percent_of_sales_were_on_switch"},"modified":"2020-10-12T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T13:30:00","slug":"uk-charts-fifa-21-goes-straight-to-number-one-but-only-2-of-sales-were-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/12\/uk-charts-fifa-21-goes-straight-to-number-one-but-only-2-of-sales-were-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Charts: FIFA 21 Goes Straight To Number One, But Only 2% Of Sales Were On Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a328588d6b743\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a328588d6b743\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Fifa 21\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a328588d6b743\/fifa-21.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a328588d6b743\/fifa-21.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"572\" alt=\"Fifa 21\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>UK chart data is now in for the week ending 10th October, revealing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_21\"><strong>FIFA 21<\/strong><\/a> has unsurprisingly gone straight in at number one.<\/p>\n<p>EA&#8217;s footie sim, which always performs very strongly indeed in the UK, has managed to hold last week&#8217;s big releases at bay to shine at the top of the table. When looking at all of FIFA 21&#8217;s opening-week physical sales in the country, only 2% were on Switch, with PS4 taking 62% and Xbox One generating 36%.<\/p>\n<p>On the Nintendo front, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\"><strong>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/strong><\/a> is the highest-placing game in fourth, with the relatively recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_3d_all-stars\"><strong>Super Mario 3D All-Stars<\/strong><\/a> now finding itself in fifth.<\/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\/10\/uk_charts_super_mario_3d_all-stars_gets_kicked_out_of_first_place\">&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 10th October, revealing that FIFA 21 has unsurprisingly gone straight in at number one. EA&#8217;s footie sim, which always performs very strongly indeed in the UK, has managed to hold last week&#8217;s big releases at bay to shine at the top of the table. When [&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-119227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119227","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=119227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}