Nintendo dominates UK games market over Christmas thanks to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee

Nintendo managed to dominate the UK games market over Christmas thanks to hot titles such as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee. Read on below to learn more about recent game sales in the UK from the folks at GamesIndustry.biz:

It was one of two Nintendo games in the Top Ten, with Mario Kart 8: Deluxe at No.7. Pokémon Let’s Go: Pikachu also sold well reaching No.12, and if sales had been combined with its Eevee sister edition, the game would have reached No.8. Overall, Nintendo-published games accounted for 19.3 per cent of all games sold, ahead of EA, which accounted for 13.6 per cent (driven primarily by FIFA 19 and Battlefield V). Here is the UK’s Full Top 20 (boxed) for December:

Ranking Title
1 Red Dead Redemption 2
2 FIFA 19
3 Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
4 Super Smash Bros Ultimate
5 Battlefield V
6 Spyro Reignited Trilogy
7 Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
8 Forza Horizon 4
9 Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy
10 Spider-MAn
11 Fornite: Deep Freeze Bundle
12 Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu
13 Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
14 Just Cause 4
15 Fallout 76
16 Super Mario Party
17 WWE 2K19
18 Just Dance 2019
19 Shadow of the Tomb Raider
20 Grand Theft Auto V

Source: GamesIndustry.biz

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