{"id":122065,"date":"2020-12-14T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/uk_charts_animal_crossing_new_horizons_sales_keep_rising_but_cyberpunk_2077_goes_top"},"modified":"2020-12-14T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:30:00","slug":"uk-charts-animal-crossing-new-horizons-sales-keep-rising-but-cyberpunk-2077-goes-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/14\/uk-charts-animal-crossing-new-horizons-sales-keep-rising-but-cyberpunk-2077-goes-top\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Charts: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Sales Keep Rising, But Cyberpunk 2077 Goes Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/98e32266ee341\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/98e32266ee341\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Animal Crossing New Horizons\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/98e32266ee341\/animal-crossing-new-horizons.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/98e32266ee341\/animal-crossing-new-horizons.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Animal Crossing New Horizons\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>UK physical chart data is now in for the week ending 12th December, revealing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a> is once again Nintendo&#8217;s highest-placed title.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2020-12-13-cyberpunk-2077-is-the-second-biggest-retail-launch-of-the-yer-uk-boxed-charts\">GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>, New Horizons&#8217; sales have been consistently rising week-on-week for more than a month at this point (this week saw an 8% rise), and it was &#8220;close&#8221; to overtaking <strong>Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War<\/strong> in second place. The report also notes that Nintendo&#8217;s popular life-sim will likely end up being the UK&#8217;s second best-selling boxed game of 2020, behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_21\">FIFA 21<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s number one spot, however, has predicatbly gone to CD Projekt&#8217;s <strong>Cyberpunk 2077<\/strong>. The hotly anticipated sci-fi RPG managed to achieve higher opening-week sales than <strong>The Last of Us Part II<\/strong>, but again, couldn&#8217;t match FIFA 21 in that same statistic.<\/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\/11\/uk_charts_hyrule_warriors_drops_14_places_while_animal_crossing_returns_to_winning_ways\">&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 physical chart data is now in for the week ending 12th December, revealing that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is once again Nintendo&#8217;s highest-placed title. As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, New Horizons&#8217; sales have been consistently rising week-on-week for more than a month at this point (this week saw an 8% rise), and it was &#8220;close&#8221; [&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-122065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122065","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=122065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}