{"id":69536,"date":"2018-12-17T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/uk_charts_a_solid_week_for_switch_but_smash_bros_ultimate_cant_hold_on_to_first_place"},"modified":"2018-12-17T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T10:15:00","slug":"uk-charts-a-solid-week-for-switch-but-smash-bros-ultimate-cant-hold-on-to-first-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/17\/uk-charts-a-solid-week-for-switch-but-smash-bros-ultimate-cant-hold-on-to-first-place\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Charts: A Solid Week For Switch, But Smash Bros. Ultimate Can&#8217;t Hold On To First Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/73b1004d69a5e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/73b1004d69a5e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Smash\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/73b1004d69a5e\/smash.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/73b1004d69a5e\/smash.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Smash\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a> has now had its second week on store shelves, performing relatively well in a week with lots of changes at the top of the UK charts.<\/p>\n<p>The game drops down to fourth place this week after a 52% fall in sales from last week&#8217;s count. While that might sound like a rather hefty fall, a 52% drop is actually a decent result for a second week on the market and the top three games this week all benefitted from sales increases as we get closer to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Christmas, plenty of family-friendly Nintendo Switch games have also seen boosts in sales this week, likely being wrapped up for some lucky gaming fans to enjoy next week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\"><strong>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/strong><\/a> saw a 20% rise this week, keeping it firmly in the top ten, and there were also sales increases for <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>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_party\"><strong>Super Mario Party<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\"><strong>Super Mario Odyssey<\/strong><\/a> 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>.<\/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. (2) <strong>Red Dead Redemption 2<\/strong><br \/>2. (3) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_19\"><strong>FIFA 19<\/strong><\/a><br \/>3. (7) <strong>Call of Duty: Black Ops 4<\/strong><br \/>4. (1) Super Smash Bros Ultimate<br \/>5. (5) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<br \/>6. (8) <strong>Spyro Reignited Trilogy<\/strong><br \/>7. (4) <strong>Battlefield V<\/strong><br \/>8. (17) <strong>Forza Horizon 4<\/strong><br \/>9. (11) <strong>Spider-Man<\/strong><br \/>10. (12) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/crash_bandicoot_n_sane_trilogy\"><strong>Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/uk_charts_super_smash_bros_ultimate_becomes_the_fastest-selling_smash_game_of_all_time\">&lt; Last week&#8217;s charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Did you buy any of these chart-topping games this week? Any games set to be place under the tree? Let us know down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has now had its second week on store shelves, performing relatively well in a week with lots of changes at the top of the UK charts. The game drops down to fourth place this week after a 52% fall in sales from last week&#8217;s count. While that might sound like a [&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-69536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69536","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=69536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}