It’s that time of year when big-name franchises chuck lengthily-titled entries onto shelves, and the games with the longest names prevail. This week, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare kept top spot in the UK charts, holding off the likes of Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor and Fédération Internationale de Football Association 15 – or FIFA 15 for short.
While the latest CoD is king of the sea for the second week running, there are interesting details throughout the UK top ten. For example:
- The split for UK physical sales of Assassin’s Creed: Unity was 52 percent PS4, 46 percent Xbox One and 2 percent PC.
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection notched the biggest UK launch for a first-party Xbox One game. If you include all publishers i.e. all Xbox One games, it came in 7th.
- Minecraft Vita hit British retail shelves and scored the third biggest launch for any game on the portable, only behind Uncharted: Golden Abyss and FIFA Football.
You’ll find more on this week’s UK charts below the break, including the top ten and the oft-ignored but stubbornly customary music video.