Try taking on these battles with the Pokémon companions you’ve brought along in your adventures across the Paldea region! Ranked Battles will be available starting in December 2022, and Online Competitions are slated for release sometime in spring 2023. Casual Battles let you compete in a fun, easygoing way without worrying too much about wins or losses. Spider-Man: Miles Morales re-enters at No.26 (sales up 292%), Gran Turismo 7 is back at No.30 (sales up 228%), and The Last of Us Part 1 returns at No.38 (sales up 454%).In the Battle Stadium, you can enjoy online battles with Trainers from around the world. The Last of Us Part 2 re-enters the charts at No.18 due to a deal that saw the game drop below £10. The Bandai Namco horror title actually sold a little better than last year's House of Ashes.Įlsewhere, a number of PlayStation games jumped in sales due to pricing activity at major retailers. There was one other new release in the charts: The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me, which debuts at No.16. Last week's other new release, Sonic Frontiers, drops from No.4 to No.10 due to a 64% fall in sales. Sony's game drops to No.4 this time after a sales fall of 73% week-on-week. Pokémon takes the headlines just a week after the huge launch of God of War: Ragnarok on PS4 and PS5. It is the biggest week of the year so far for Nintendo Switch console sales. Switch hardware sales rose 62% week-on-week, led by the OLED model. The launch of Pokémon has also boosted sales of Switch consoles, GfK says. It's also 70% bigger than last year's Diamond and Pearl remakes and 56% bigger than January's Pokémon Legends: Arceus Scarlet and Violet's first week sales are 25% bigger than the previous 'new generation' Pokémon release, Sword and Shield, which launched on Switch in November 2019.
The Violet version accounted for 52% of sales, while Scarlet accounted for 42%, and the double pack featuring both games made up the remaining 6%. Download figures are not available for Nintendo games. Note: This data is purely boxed retail data.
The average selling price was £35 for Sun and Moon compared with £48 for Scarlet and Violet. Sun and Moon arrived during a period of huge interest in the series following the release of the smartphone game Pokémon Go (way back in 2016)Īccording to GfK, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet actually generated more money during its launch week compared with Sun and Moon. In fact, in terms of units, it is the second biggest Pokémon launch of all time, behind Pokémon Sun and Moon on the 3DS. It is the biggest boxed game launch of the year, with opening week sales up 4% compared with FIFA 23 (the previous biggest). Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is the latest video game to post huge launch sales in the UK.
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