{"id":34959,"date":"2018-07-23T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/octopath_traveler_slips_in_uk_charts_as_crash_bandicoot_takes_fourth_consecutive_top_spot"},"modified":"2018-07-23T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T12:15:00","slug":"octopath-traveler-slips-in-uk-charts-as-crash-bandicoot-takes-fourth-consecutive-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/23\/octopath-traveler-slips-in-uk-charts-as-crash-bandicoot-takes-fourth-consecutive-top-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Octopath Traveler Slips In UK Charts As Crash Bandicoot Takes Fourth Consecutive Top Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/octopath_traveler_slips_in_uk_charts_as_crash_bandicoot_takes_fourth_consecutive_top_spot\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/octopath_traveler_slips_in_uk_charts_as_crash_bandicoot_takes_fourth_consecutive_top_spot\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"octopath.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/octopath_traveler_slips_in_uk_charts_as_crash_bandicoot_takes_fourth_consecutive_top_spot\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/octopath_traveler_slips_in_uk_charts_as_crash_bandicoot_takes_fourth_consecutive_top_spot\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"octopath.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/crash_bandicoot_n_sane_trilogy\"><strong>Crash\u00a0Bandicoot N.\u00a0Sane Trilogy<\/strong><\/a> has once again managed to bat away the competition, keeping its position at the top of the UK charts for a fourth consecutive week.<\/p>\n<p>With a generous amount of Xbox One price reductions taking place over Amazon Prime Day last week, the top ten is a strange blend of current heavy-hitters and older re-entries this week.\u00a0Rare&#8217;s Xbox One exclusive <strong>Sea of Thieves<\/strong> has re-entered the charts thanks to being included in console bundles over the sale, as has <strong>Minecraft: Xbox Edition<\/strong> and <strong>Forza Horizon 3<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/lego_the_incredibles\"><strong>LEGO The Incredibles<\/strong><\/a> has also seen another impressive week thanks to the Incredibles 2 movie being released earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/octopath_traveler\"><strong>Octopath Traveler<\/strong><\/a> has sadly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, dropped from its third-place spot last week to 16th place this time around with a 60% fall in sales. That drop is relatively normal for a game as niche as Octopath\u00a0Traveler, however, with the sudden jump of Xbox titles making the chart position drop seem a little more significant.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, only 2,000 sales separate all of the top six positions this week so things were very close indeed. Here&#8217;s the top ten:<\/p>\n<p>1. (1) Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy<br \/>2. (3) LEGO The Incredibles<br \/>3. (Re-Entry) Sea of Thieves<br \/>4. (Re-Entry) Minecraft: Xbox Edition<br \/>5. (New)\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_mania_plus\">Sonic Mania Plus<\/a><\/strong><br \/>6. (Re-Entry) Forza Horizon 3<br \/>7. (5)\u00a0<strong>God of War<\/strong><br \/>8. (11) <strong>The Crew 2<\/strong><br \/>9. (6)\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_18\">FIFA 18<\/a><\/strong><br \/>10. (10)\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Did you buy any of these chart-topping games this week?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crash\u00a0Bandicoot N.\u00a0Sane Trilogy has once again managed to bat away the competition, keeping its position at the top of the UK charts for a fourth consecutive week. With a generous amount of Xbox One price reductions taking place over Amazon Prime Day last week, the top ten is a strange blend of current heavy-hitters and [&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-34959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34959","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=34959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}