This week’s UK retail chart, dated the week ending 3rd January, gives insight into which games people were playing over Christmas and New Year’s.
The top three positions are unchanged, so there’s not much to write about there. EA Sports FC 26 remains no.1, followed by Mario Kart World and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.
Position 4, however, is occupied by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, up from #17. A minor price cut and a new wave of PS5/Xbox Series owners is seemingly the reason, along with the need to fill the Christmas-to-NYE void.
Battlefield 6 climbed to #5, Pokémon Legends Z-A fell to #6, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe dropped to #7, Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate resurfaced at #8 (up from #18), the evergreen GTA V took #9, and then at #10 it’s Minecraft.
Mortal Kombat 1 sits at #11, meaning we nearly had two Mortal Kombats in the top ten this week. That would have paired well with there being two Mario Karts.
Other titles benefiting from Christmas sales boosts include Split Fiction at #14 (up from #22), The Witcher III up eight places at #20, and LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga at #22 – up all the way from #39. 2016’s Mad Max also managed to return to the top 40 at #18.
A couple of console exclusives weren’t as fortunate, with Ghost of Yōtei falling from #12 to #23 and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond dipping from #32 to #39.
In the single format charts, EA Sports FC 26 is no.1 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series and Switch. Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon is the PC’s no.1, LEGO Worlds topped the Xbox One chart, while the long running 3DS chart consists of just one game: Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth. Can the 3DS chart survive 2026?