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PAL Charts - Week 5, 2021 | Animal Crossing 1st in UK yet again and...not much more

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Thanks to DisturbedSwan, El Manco, mazi, Lelouch0612 and everyone else for their helpful contribution!
P.S. : Special thanks to DarkDetective for making the Week 53, 2020 thread in my place!

Europe + ANZ
Top 5 Retail + Download for Week 1, 2021

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CY 2020

211.9 million games were sold across UK & Ireland, mainland Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in 2020, according to sales tracker GSD.

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For these markets, 123.7 million games were sold, which is a 19% jump over 2019. 58.7 million of those games were downloaded, which is a rise of 47% over the year before. Despite lockdown restrictions causing High Street stores to close, 65 million boxed games were sold across the various markets, which is a rise of 0.8%.

In order to get a more accurate reading of the market share between boxed and digital, we have to remove countries that do not count both boxed and digital sales. We also have to subtract companies like Nintendo, Bethesda and CD Projekt, who do not share digital numbers with GSD. After doing that, we can see that 59% of games sold by tracked publishers were downloaded, with the remainder coming via physical sales. In 2019, less than 48% of sales were digital.

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The biggest publisher of boxed games across Europe was Nintendo, with a market share of over 28%, more than double EA in second place. In terms of digital, Ubisoft is No.1 with a nearly 18% market share, again ahead of EA in second place.

In terms of consoles, PS4 was the biggest platform for downloads across the tracked publishers, accounting for 52% of sales -- PC was in second place with 27%. It's worth noting that the majority of the publishers that are sharing digital sales are primarily known for their console releases. It's also worth noting that Game Pass sales are not included with this data.

In terms of boxed games, it is still PS4 at the top with a 43% market share, although it is only narrowly ahead of Nintendo Switch, which has a 41% market share. This does vary across the continent. In France and Germany, Switch is the top performing console for boxed game sales, whereas PS4 is strong in Italy and Spain.

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In terms of consoles sales in Europe, GSD takes in data from Benelux, France, Switzerland, Nordics, Spain and Italy. Across these markets, 5.59 million games machines were sold, which is a slight 1.9% drop over the year before.

It will come as little surprise that Nintendo Switch was comfortably the best-selling console of the year. Nintendo's console spiked in sales by more than 22% over the same period a year before. It sold almost three times as much as the second best-selling device: PS4, sales of which dropped 42% over 2019, which isn't too surprising when you consider the next PlayStation was released in November. PS5 was the third best-selling console of the year, followed by the Xbox Series machines (including both S and X iterations) and then Xbox One.

Although the number of consoles sold year-on-year declined, the revenue from these devices actually grew 12% to €1.7 billion. This is due to the higher price of the newer machines.

Switch dominated European sales, except in the Nordic region. In Denmark and Finland, PS4 was the best-selling console, while in Sweden PS5 was the most popular device.
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GSD 2020 Top 20 Video Games (Digital + Physical)

01. FIFA 21 (EA SPORTS)
02. GRAND THEFT AUTO V (ROCKSTAR GAMES)
03. ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS (NINTENDO)*
04. FIFA 20 (EA GAMES)
05. CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
06. MARIO KART 8 DELUXE (NINTENDO)*
07. THE LAST OF US PART 2 (SONY COMPUTER ENT.)
08. ASSASSIN'S CREED VALHALLA (UBISOFT)
09. CALL OF DUTY MODERN WARFARE (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
10. RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
11. NBA 2K20 (TAKE-TWO)
12. SUPER MARIO 3D ALL-STARS (NINTENDO)
13. TOM CLANCY'S RAINBOW SIX SIEGE (UBISOFT)
14. CYBERPUNK 2077 (CD PROJECT RED)*
15. MINECRAFT: SWITCH EDITION (MOJANG)
16. GHOST OF TSUSHIMA (SONY COMPUTER ENT.)
17. ASSASSIN'S CREED ODYSSEY (UBISOFT)
18. RING FIT ADVENTURE (NINTENDO)
19. JUST DANCE 2020 (UBISOFT)
20. SUPER MARIO PARTY (NINTENDO)*

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United Kingdom:

Week 5 - Retail (Ukie / GfK)

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ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS makes number one for second week in a row

ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS makes number one for second week in a row 7 of the top 20 games in the UK charts were Nintendo exclusives. See all of the titles that made it into the top 40 below.
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Animal Crossing continues to dominate UK retail | UK Boxed Charts

Another week, another triumph for Nintendo in the UK boxed charts.Animal Crossing: New Horizons is No.1 once again, for…
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is No.1 once again, for the fourth time this year, despite a 13% drop in sales. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe stays at No.2 for the second consecutive week, with a 1% slip in sales.

It was very nearly a Nintendo top three, but Ring Fit Adventure missed out on third spot by just 52 units. The fitness game's sales rose 34% week-on-week, but couldn't quite topple Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, which held on despite an 8% sales drop.

The only significant new boxed game to come out this year (so far) is Hitman 3, and that game is now down at No.17 with a 54% slide in sales week-on-week.

There was one new game in the charts, and that's Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthbound at No.36. The game was published by Maximum Games in the UK.
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01 (01) ANIMAL CROSSING NEW HORIZONS (NINTENDO)
02 (02) MARIO KART 8 DELUXE
03 (03) CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR
04 (07) RING FIT ADVENTURE
05 (06) MINECRAFT (NINTENDO)
06 (05) GRAND THEFT AUTO V (ROCKSTAR)
07 (08) JUST DANCE 2021 (UBISOFT)
08 (10) FIFA 21
09 (09) SUPER MARIO 3D ALL-STARS
10 (12) ASSASSIN'S CREED VALHALLA
11 (13) NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. U DELUXE (NINTENDO)
12 (05) MARVEL'S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES (SONY COMPUTER ENT.)
13 (15) IMMORTALS FENYX RISING (UBISOFT)
14 (14) MARVEL'S AVENGERS (SQUARE ENIX)
15 (17) SUPER MARIO ODYSSEY (NINTENDO)
16 (16) RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 (ROCKSTAR)
17 (11) HITMAN III (SQUARE ENIX)
18 (20) LEGO HARRY POTTER COLLECTION (WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE)
19 (18) MINECRAFT DUNGEONS (MOJANG)
20 (21) LUIGI'S MANSION 3 (NINTENDO)
21 (30) SUPER MARIO PARTY (NINTENDO)
22 (19) NBA 2K21 (2K)
23 (23) SUPER SMASH BROS. ULTIMATE (NINTENDO)
24 (27) MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020 (NINTENDO)
25 (22) 51 WORLDWIDE GAMES (NINTENDO)
26 (32) CRASH BANDICOOT N.SANE TRILOGY (ACTIVISION)
27 (29) MINECRAFT: BEDROCK EDITION (SONY COMPUTER ENT.)
28 (34) WATCH DOGS: LEGION (UBISOFT)
29 (25) THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD (NINTENDO)
30 (28) CYBERPUNK 2077 (BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT)
31 (24) POKEMON SWORD (NINTENDO)
32 (35) SONIC MANIA PLUS (SEGA)
33 (37) LEGO JURASSIC WORLD (WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE)
34 (33) LEGO MARVEL SUPER HEROES 2 (WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE)
35 (RE) TEAM SONIC RACING (SEGA)
36 (NE) WEREWOLF: THE APOCALYPSE - EARTHBLOOD (NACON)
37 (31) PGA TOUR 2K21 (2K)
38 (RE) HYRULE WARRIORS: AGE OF CALAMITY (NINTENDO)
39 (RE) FOOTBALL MANAGER 2021 (SEGA)
40 (RE) SPYRO REIGNITED TRILOGY (ACTIVISION)

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France:
Week 3, 2021 - Individual Formats (Value)

01 (01) [NSW] MARIO KART 8 DELUXE (NINTENDO)
02 (02) [NSW] RING FIT ADVENTURE (NINTENDO)
03 (03) [NSW] ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS (NINTENDO)
04 (05) [PS4] FIFA 21 (EA SPORTS)
05 (RE) [NSW] JUST DANCE 2021 (UBISOFT)

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Germany:
December - All Formats (Units)

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Note:

Germany Sales Awards of December 2020

Special >1.000.000
[NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo / Nintendo) {2020.03.20}

Special >500.000
[PS4][XBO][PC] Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt / Bandai Namco Entertainment) {2020.12.10} (NEW)
[PS5][XBS][PS4][XBO][PC] Assassin's Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft / Ubisoft) {2020.11.10}
[PS4] The Last of Us: Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2020.06.19}

Platinum >200.000
[PS5][PS4] Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2020.11.19}

Gold >100.000
[NSW] Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Koei Tecmo / Nintendo) {2020.11.20}
[PS5][XBS][PS4][XBO][NSW] Just Dance 2021 (Ubisoft / Ubisoft) {2020.11.12}
[NSW] 51 Worldwide Games (Nd Cube / Nintendo) {2020.06.05}

www.resetera.com

Germany - Video Game Sales Archive

This archive of video game sales numbers from Germany is a collection of data provided by game, the German trade association of the games industry. The milestone reports only cover games that were released during the 12 months before the report came out. Each entry in the list below is a...
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Italy:
Week 4, 2021 - Individual Formats Retail (Units)

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Switzerland:
Week 4, 2021 - All Formats (Units)

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Australia:
Week 4, 2021 - All Formats (Units)

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New Zealand:
Week 4, 2021 - All Formats (Units)

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Spain:
January 2021 - Individual Formats Retail (Units)

GSD

  1. [NSW] MARIO KART 8 DELUXE (NINTENDO)
  2. [NSW] ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS (NINTENDO)
  3. [NSW] RING FIT ADVENTURE (NINTENDO)
  4. [NSW] JUST DANCE 2021 (UBISOFT)
  5. [NSW] MINECRAFT: SWITCH EDITION (NINTENDO)
  6. [NSW] SUPER MARIO PARTY (NINTENDO)
  7. [PS4] FIFA 21 (EA GAMES)
  8. [NSW] NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. U DELUXE (NINTENDO)
  9. [NSW] SUPER MARIO 3D ALL-STARS (NINTENDO)
  10. [PS4] GRAND THEFT AUTO 5 (ROCKSTAR GAMES)

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cw_sasuke

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Sun-Squirrel said:
Lacrimosa of Dana only sold a couple of hundred units at launch if I recall
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Depending on the week this would be enough to chart i guess. But yeah expectations are probably low and it doesnt help that the review code has been crashing like crazy on PS5 systems. Plus some people might just wait for the NSW/PC versions down the line.
 
Soap

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Why even bother releasing new games at this point of you're Nintendo?

Craziness.
 
Redcrayon

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Ys not charting isn't a surprise at all, I can't imagine the Switch release in June will do any better either when you look at how the popular back catalogue games with legs hang around forever.
 
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Didn't the Nioh Collection release last week, too?

We need those platform-specific charts again.
 
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    German Sales Awards - January 2021
    Special >1.500.000
    [PS5][XBS][PS4][XBO][NSW][PC] FIFA 21 (Electronic Arts / Electronic Arts) {2020.10.09} <-- passed 1M in November

    Platinum >200.000
    [NSW] 51 Worldwide Games (Nd Cube / Nintendo) {2020.06.05} <-- passed 100k in December

    Gold >100.000
    [PS5][XBS][PS4][XBO][NSW] Immortals Fenyx Rising (Ubisoft / Ubisoft) {2020.12.03}

    Germany Video Game Sales Archive
     
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    • Kakadu18

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    DarkDetective said:
    German Sales Awards - January 2021
    Special >1.500.000
    [PS5][XBS][PS4][XBO][NSW][PC] FIFA 21 (Electronic Arts / Electronic Arts) {2020.10.09} <-- passed 1M in November

    Platinum >200.000
    [NSW] 51 Worldwide Games (Nd Cube / Nintendo) {2020.06.05} <-- passed 100k in December

    Gold >100.000
    [PS5][XBS][PS4][XBO][NSW] Immortals Fenyx Rising (Ubisoft / Ubisoft) {2020.12.03}

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    51 Worldwide Games just passed 100k in December and then 200k a month later.
    It needed more than 6 months for the first 100k and then one month for the next.
     
    DarkDetective

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    Kakadu18 said:
    51 Worldwide Games just passed 100k in December and then 200k a month later.
    It needed more than 6 months for the first 100k and then one month for the next.
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    December sales must have been insane. My guess is sales were getting somewhat close to 100k before December, and then also close to 200k at the end of December. Just needed a couple more January sales to tip over that 200k mark. But that would still suggest December basically doubled the game's sales, which is crazy! In a good way, of course.
     

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    51 WW Games sounds like a great Christmas present maybe that's why it sold so much in December.
     

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    STOP BUYING GTA V, I want GTA 6, which won't happen if V keeps selling so well lol.

    Another enhanced edition for GTA V will fly of the shelf.

    GTA 6 aint coming for a while sadly.
     
    Kozy

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    Seen lots of Clubhouse adverts during December, Nintendo was pushing it a lot.

    Nevertheless that performance in Germany is pretty impressive!
     
    Joxer

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    Thought this was a good reminder of Nintendo's position, in the UK especially, just over seven years ago:











    Super Mario 3D World will also be finally able to lay the spectre of Knack to rest in the UK.

    Unless there's a Knack Deluxe for PS5 we don't know about?
     
    Kakadu18

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    Joxer said:
    Thought this was a good reminder of Nintendo's position, in the UK especially, just over seven years ago:











    Super Mario 3D World will also be finally able to lay the spectre of Knack to rest in the UK.

    Unless there's a Knack Deluxe for PS5 we don't know about?
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    Now 3D World will break the charts, set them on fire and blow them up into space.
     
    Mory Dunz

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    Joxer said:
    Thought this was a good reminder of Nintendo's position, in the UK especially, just over seven years ago:











    Super Mario 3D World will also be finally able to lay the spectre of Knack to rest in the UK.

    Unless there's a Knack Deluxe for PS5 we don't know about?
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    some interesting stuff here.
     
    AViewtifulMind

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    Europe has been lagging behind Japan and America in terms of Switch adoption rates, so there's a lot of potential for growth left. Only 20.7m units of Switch and Switch Lite have been shipped in the region by the end of December 2020, so there's still a long way to go to hit 50m.
     
    Kakadu18

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    AViewtifulMind said:
    Europe has been lagging behind Japan and America in terms of Switch adoption rates, so there's a lot of potential for growth left. Only 20.7m units of Switch and Switch Lite have been shipped in the region by the end of December 2020, so there's still a long way to go to hit 50m.
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    I think they'll manage to sell over 40mil units in Europe, maybe even 45mil, but never 50mil. Not even the PS4 got to 50mil, it's at 47mil now. Only the DS and the PS2 got sold over 50mil times in Europe, the Switch will just come close.
    The Other regions will make up for it to surpass the DS and PS2 ww.
     

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    Does anybody know the Launch sales from 3D World on WiiU? Because then we could estimate the new numbers
     
    Lelouch0612

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    Very good start for 3D World, especially since the UK is under lockdown, i.e digital share should be higher than for past Mario titles.
     
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    great start, but yeah i can see how being released 5 months after 3D all stars might have slightly lowered people's excitement for another 3D mario game.
     
    Procheno

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    Sorry I'm late to the party, just wanted to post this for Animal Crossing this week

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    Pancakes R Us

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    great start, but yeah i can see how being released 5 months after 3D all stars might have slightly lowered people's excitement for another 3D mario game.
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    I wonder if there'll be some Mario fatigue at some point. I feel like there's a bunch of games in the charts (3D World, NSMBU Deluxe, MM2 and 3D All-Stars).
     
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    Pancakes R Us said:
    I wonder if there'll be some Mario fatigue at some point. I feel like there's a bunch of games in the charts (3D World, NSMBU Deluxe, MM2 and 3D All-Stars).
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    Unlikely, since they are all quality releases and they target different sections of the audience.
    If they were shitty games...maybe, but if anything the opposite is happening. Switch is the first console for a lot families and gamers and they have some catching up to do.
     
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