{"id":5155,"date":"2017-11-13T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/sonic_forces_on_switch_has_solid_uk_launch_as_doom_moves_up_the_charts"},"modified":"2017-11-13T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:15:00","slug":"sonic-forces-on-switch-has-solid-uk-launch-as-doom-moves-up-the-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/13\/sonic-forces-on-switch-has-solid-uk-launch-as-doom-moves-up-the-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Forces on Switch Has Solid UK Launch as DOOM Moves Up the Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Sonic Forces fistbump.JPG\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/sonic_forces_on_switch_has_solid_uk_launch_as_doom_moves_up_the_charts\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/sonic_forces_on_switch_has_solid_uk_launch_as_doom_moves_up_the_charts\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Sonic Forces fistbump.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Last week brought quite a few major retail releases, with the Switch featuring quite prominently. All told Nintendo&#8217;s diminutive system had a decent set of results in the UK charts (which don&#8217;t include eShop sales), albeit with a familiar face still leading the way.<\/p>\n<p>In the all-format stakes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_forces\"><strong>Sonic Forces<\/strong><\/a> secured 5th place on its debut, with the three versions of that game giving it a one position lead over the more established <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\"><strong>Super Mario Odyssey<\/strong><\/a> (in 6th place). It&#8217;s the single-format charts that are a bit more interesting in this respect, with Odyssey still doing very well in 5th place. The PS4 version of Sonic Forces led the way for the Blue Blur&#8217;s latest but only managed 14th in terms of single-format sales; pleasingly for the Switch version it was just one place behind in 15th, with the Xbox One version four further places back.<\/p>\n<p>Decent results for the Switch version, then, and last week also brought the system&#8217;s iteration of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/doom\"><strong>DOOM<\/strong><\/a>. That release helped the game move up some places in the all-format chart, but in the single-format picture it only managed 23rd place, and was only the fourth best-selling Switch game. It&#8217;s not a terrible performance, but it&#8217;s relatively modest considering the promotional push Nintendo has tried to give to the Bethesda-published title. Next week&#8217;s results will bring launch sales for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/elder_scrolls_v_skyrim\"><strong>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/strong><\/a>, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how that performs.<\/p>\n<p>Moving back to all-format results, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\"><strong>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/strong><\/a> was pushed down to 18th place and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\"><strong>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/strong><\/a> also dropped back a little to 22nd. In the lower end of the charts Switch was also represented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\"><strong>Splatoon 2<\/strong><\/a> in 35th and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/1-2-switch\"><strong>1-2-Switch<\/strong><\/a> in 40th.<\/p>\n<p>As for the 3DS, its representatives are all in the lower half of the all-format top 40. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/mario_kart_7\">Mario Kart 7<\/a><\/strong> ended up in 31st, closely followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/new_super_mario_bros_2\"><strong>New Super Mario Bros. 2<\/strong><\/a> in 33rd; hardware bundles are likely helping with those positions. That may also be the case with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/super_mario_3d_land\"><strong>Super Mario 3D Land<\/strong><\/a>, which popped up in 38th place.<\/p>\n<p>Good numbers in the top 40 for Nintendo, even if the usual multi-platform contenders (FIFA, Call of Duty, Assassin&#8217;s Creed) hold the top spots.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week brought quite a few major retail releases, with the Switch featuring quite prominently. All told Nintendo&#8217;s diminutive system had a decent set of results in the UK charts (which don&#8217;t include eShop sales), albeit with a familiar face still leading the way. In the all-format stakes Sonic Forces secured 5th place on its [&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-5155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155","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=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}