Bowser’s Super Mario 3D World + Fury was comfortably the UK’s biggest box retail game last week, and is the fastest selling launch of the year so far.
The platform game Switch is an updated relaunch of the 2013 Wii U title, complete with a new side adventure. Its launch is almost three times the size of the original game, which debuted at No.14 in late November 2013 (on the same day as the PS4 launch). It is important to note that the Wii U installation base was small at that time compared to the Switch.
In fact, it is the third largest release of a Mario platform game on the Nintendo Switch, ahead of 2D games – Super Mario Maker 2 (June 2019) and New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe (January 2019) – but behind titles 3D – – Super Mario Odyssey (October 2017) and Super Mario 3D All-Stars (September 2020), which seems suitable for a game that is a cross between Mario’s 2D and 3D adventures. Physical sales of the title launch are more than 2.5 times higher than New Super Mario Bros U, but a third less than Super Mario 3D All-Stars.
Overall, it looks like a solid performance. There are several Mario games being launched on the market now competing with each other, including last year’s All-Stars game. In fact, the 3D collection (No. 12) saw an 11% increase in sales this week and Super Mario Odyssey (No. 14) saw a 28% increase in sales. With Mario Kart 8: Deluxe at No.5, New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe at No.16, Super Mario Party at No.18 and Luigi’s Mansion 3 at No.19, there are seven games set in the Mario universe in the top 20 box.
It wasn’t just Mario this week, with Bandai Namco’s Little Nightmares 2 debuting in 7th place. The boxed version of the game sold better on PS4 (43% of sales), followed by Switch (37%), Xbox One (18%) and PC (2%). This chart does not take digital sales into account.
Elsewhere, FIFA 21 moves up five places to 3rd place, after a 140% jump in sales, driven by discounts that took the game to less than £ 30. The arrival of new PS5 consoles also gave Man a boost -Spider: Miles Morales, who moved up eight positions to number 4, with a peak sales of 264%. Demon’s Souls, exclusive to PS5, also re-entered the charts this week, rising 401% in sales week by week and reaching No.17.
Overall, 270,000 boxed games have been sold in the UK in recent weeks, an increase of 44% over the previous week.
Here is the Top Ten GfK of the week that ended on February 13th:
| Last week | This week | Title |
|---|---|---|
| New entry | 1 | Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury |
| 1 | two | Animal Crossing: New Horizons |
| 8 | 3 | FIFA 21 |
| 12 | 4 | Spider-Man: Miles Morales |
| two | 5 | Mario Kart 8: Deluxe |
| 3 | 6 | Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War |
| New entry | 7 | Little Nightmares 2 |
| 5 | 8 | Minecraft (switch) |
| 10 | 9 | Assassin’s Creed Valhalla |
| 4 | 10 | Ring Fit Adventure |