{"id":9830,"date":"2018-01-08T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/zelda_breath_of_the_wild_rises_up_the_uk_charts"},"modified":"2018-01-08T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T12:45:00","slug":"zelda-breath-of-the-wild-rises-up-the-uk-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/08\/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-rises-up-the-uk-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelda: Breath of the Wild Rises Up The UK Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Zelda BotW\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/zelda_breath_of_the_wild_bounds_back_in_uk_charts\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/zelda_breath_of_the_wild_bounds_back_in_uk_charts\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Zelda BotW\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s a new week, so it&#8217;s time to check out the UK software charts again. Last week <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/a><\/strong> was the star of the show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/super_mario_odyssey_holds_its_own_in_the_uk_software_charts\">holding its own against strong third party competition<\/a> on PS4\/Xbox One. This week we see it slip from 6th place to 8th place, but we&#8217;d imagine that Nintendo will more than happy with that.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a><\/strong> jumps from 10th place last week to 9th place this week. Could people who picked up a Switch be looking for that next game to add to their collection perhaps? Whatever the reason, it&#8217;s a strong showing for a game that is almost a year old.<\/p>\n<p>If we look at the <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chart-track.co.uk\/index.jsp?c=p\/software\/uk\/latest\/index_test.jsp&amp;ct=110048\">Switch only charts<\/a>, there isn&#8217;t much movement this week really. Aside from Super Mario Odyssey and\u00a0The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, we&#8217;d seeing UK consumers picking up lots of copies of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\">Splatoon 2<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/1-2-switch\">1-2-Switch<\/a><\/strong> and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_plus_rabbids_kingdom_battle\">Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Poor old <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/arms\">ARMS<\/a><\/strong>, it&#8217;s a quality game but just doesn&#8217;t seem to have clicked with UK consumers. In the Switch only charts it is now in 19th place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let us know what you think about the movement in the UK charts this week with a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new week, so it&#8217;s time to check out the UK software charts again. Last week Super Mario Odyssey was the star of the show, holding its own against strong third party competition on PS4\/Xbox One. This week we see it slip from 6th place to 8th place, but we&#8217;d imagine that Nintendo will [&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-9830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830","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=9830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}