Lost in Spacey – Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the UK’s Christmas no.1

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has become the fifth game in the franchise to take the UK’s Christmas number one spot.

Strong sales of the PS4 version – which reportedly received a spot of extra promotion last week – helped Activision’s exo-suited and booted shooter to dethrone FIFA 15.

GTA V took #1 in the individual format chart, so if you’ve read elsewhere that Take 2’s crime caper is the festive number one that’ll be why. We always go by the standard all-formats top 40.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare topped the PS3 and Xbox One charts while FIFA 15 took #1 in the Xbox 360 top 40. GTA V meanwhile claimed top position in the PS4 chart.

Going back to the all-formats, FIFA 15 fell to #2 while GTA V and Far Cry 4 remained at #3 and #4 respectively. Assassin’s Creed: Unity leapt from #10 to #5 due to price drops, with sales up 97%.

At #6 it’s the return of The Crew, up from #11. Again, this was down to discounts – GAME cut the price to a mere £21.99 on Saturday as a one day deal.

Destiny, Minecraft: Xbox Edition, Minecraft: PlayStation Edition and LEGO Batman 3 then finish off the festive top ten.

The biggest riser of the week was Assassin’s Creed: Rogue, which went from #27 to #15. The biggest faller on the other hand was Halo: The Master Chief Collection which fell from #14 to #22.

There were no new entries and just two re-entries – Alien: Isolation at #35 and LEGO The Hobbit at #39.

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