UK boxed charts pre-Christmas 2023

With the Christmas buying season in full swing, EA Sports activities FC 24 stays the highest vendor for a second week in a row. Following final week’s decline, the primary EA soccer title with out the FIFA branding gained an extra 29% in gross sales. Tremendous Mario Bros. Marvel dropped one spot to No. 3 because of a 17% leap by Hogwarts Legacy, which reclaimed second place.

Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare 3 stays No. 4, promoting effectively regardless of failing to surpass final yr’s version. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, the one Sony PlayStation 5 unique within the high ten this week, leaped a pair of spots from seventh to fifth place.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, in its second week of gross sales, fell 53% from No. 5 to No. 12. This lower is consistent with the same old second week of gross sales, and regardless of poor vital reception, Ubisoft’s newest open-world title is having fun with sturdy fan phrase of mouth.

Nintendo is ending 2023 sturdy with Minecraft (Nintendo Swap), Nintendo Swap Sports activities, and Mario Kart 8 remaining within the again half of the highest ten.

Mortal Kombat 11 Final, months after the sturdy debut of Mortal Kombat 1, is again within the high ten because of deep reductions on the PlayStation 5. The 62% improve was sufficient to go from quantity 14 to eight. Different titles benefiting from reductions embrace Gran Turismo 7, with a 367% improve to No. 29, whereas Tremendous Mario Celebration, Purple Useless Redemption 2, and The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt additionally climbed again into the highest 40.

NBA 2k24 had the biggest single achieve of the week, with a 478% gross sales improve because of PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Swap gross sales, touchdown at thirtieth place.

God of Battle: Ragnarok, at No. 40, skilled renewed curiosity because of the latest Valhalla DLC, introducing a brand new recreation mode to the single-player PlayStation 5 unique.