{"id":65095,"date":"2018-11-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/uk_charts_black_friday_deals_boost_sales_across_the_board_but_rivals_outperform_nintendo"},"modified":"2018-11-27T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T10:00:00","slug":"uk-charts-black-friday-deals-boost-sales-across-the-board-but-rivals-outperform-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/27\/uk-charts-black-friday-deals-boost-sales-across-the-board-but-rivals-outperform-nintendo\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Charts: Black Friday Deals Boost Sales Across The Board, But Rivals Outperform Nintendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dbe2ee5de686c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dbe2ee5de686c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Pokemon\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dbe2ee5de686c\/pokemon.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dbe2ee5de686c\/pokemon.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>With Black Friday sales dominating the retail space last week, it&#8217;s unsurprising to learn that the charts have seen a bit of change this time around. Discounted games and those found tucked inside console bundles saw huge leaps across the board as consumers spent \u00a353 million in total on physical gaming products.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_19\"><strong>FIFA 19<\/strong><\/a> has jumped right back into the UK number one spot this week after being discounted and included inside an appealing PS4 bundle deal. With Nintendo Switch still being a relatively new console, discounts were nowhere near as frequent as on other machines, pushing multiple PS4 and Xbox One titles up several places to dominate the top ten.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu!<\/strong><\/a> fell four places down to eighth (the <strong>Eevee<\/strong> version dropped a little further to 18th), but Nintendo&#8217;s evergreen titles did actually see a very decent rise in sales, even if this didn&#8217;t result in high chart positioning. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\"><strong>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/strong><\/a> rose 98% in sales; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_party\"><strong>Super Mario Party<\/strong><\/a> rose by 110%, sitting in 24th; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\"><strong>Super Mario Odyssey<\/strong><\/a> is just below in 25th, also seeing sales rise by 110%; 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> rose by 111%, clinching 38th spot.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at this week&#8217;s top ten all formats chart (physical sales only):<\/p>\n<p>1. (5) FIFA 19<br \/>2. (7) <strong>Call of Duty: Black Ops 4<\/strong><br \/>3. (2) <strong>Red Dead Redemption 2<\/strong><br \/>4. (New) <strong>Battlefield V<\/strong><br \/>5. (11) <strong>Forza Horizon 4<\/strong><br \/>6. (13) <strong>Spider-Man<\/strong><br \/>7. (3) <strong>Fallout 76<\/strong><br \/>8. (4) Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu!<br \/>9. (1) <strong>Spyro Reignited Trilogy<\/strong><br \/>10. (9) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/switch_gets_a_major_retail_boost_in_the_uk_thanks_to_pokemon_lets_go_success\">&lt; Last week&#8217;s charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Did you buy any of these chart-topping games this week?<\/em> <em>Manage to snag any Black Friday bargains<\/em><em>?<\/em> <em>Let us know down below<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Black Friday sales dominating the retail space last week, it&#8217;s unsurprising to learn that the charts have seen a bit of change this time around. Discounted games and those found tucked inside console bundles saw huge leaps across the board as consumers spent \u00a353 million in total on physical gaming products. FIFA 19 has [&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-65095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65095","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=65095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}