 God Of War Ragnarök (PS5/PS4)2 (1) Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS5/XO/PS4)3 (2) FIFA 23 (PS5/PS4/XO/NS)4 (-) Sonic Frontiers (PS5/NS/XSX/PS4)5 (3) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (NS)6 (4) Nintendo Switch Sports (NS)7 (12) Horizon Forbidden West (PS5/PS4)8 (5) Splatoon 3 (NS)9 (7) Animal Crossing: New Horizons (NS)10 (8) Minecraft (NS) Ukie Games Charts©, compiled by GfK In terms of the rest of the chart, the other new entry was Sonic Frontiers at numbe){kind=link}
Sony’s latest PlayStation exclusive has had the best launch of any game not called FIFA 23, in the latest UK physical charts.
It may be the end of Kratos’ Nordic adventure but new release God Of War Ragnarök has become the fastest-selling entry in the series’ history and almost beat the first week launch record of FIFA 23 in the UK charts.
Relatively speaking, the PlayStation 2 era God Of War games were not as popular in the UK as they were in the US, but that all changed with the 2018 soft reboot, which was a massive hit worldwide.
That meant that expectation for the sequel was so much that the game ended up beating the first week sales totals for Elden Ring, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Pokemon Legends: Arceus.
As ever, these are only physical sales, so a game like Call Of Duty is likely to have seen a much larger percentage of its sales go to digital downloads.