Hogwarts Legacy has become one of the biggest games of 2023 and it's thanks in part to the recently released Nintendo Switch version.
06.11.2023 - 10:05 / gamingbolt.com / Christopher Dring / Star Ocean / Nintendo
Super Mario Bros. Wonder has enjoyed widespread praise from critics and audiences since its release, and as you’d expect from a Mario game, it’s also enjoying commercial success to match. The game debuted strongly in the UK’s weekly retail charts upon its release, while last week, it climbed into the charts’ top spot. This week, as noted by GamesIndustry’s Christopher Dring on social media platform X, the game has held on to the top spot (though its physical sales are apparently still “quite low”.).
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, on the other hand, has dropped down by one place. After coming in at No. 2 last week, it now sits in third position in this week’s charts. Meanwhile, Teyon and Nacon’s newly-released first person shooter RoboCop: Rogue City has debuted in fourth place, becoming the week’s highest-selling new release.
Several other new titles did launch all week, of course, but they have failed to break into the top 10, with WarioWare: Move It! debuting at No. 15, Star Ocean: The Second Story R at No. 16, and EA Sports WRC at No. 19.
Mario Wonder holds No.1 in the UK physical charts. It just keeps on selling.
Robocop biggest new boxed release at No.4. Wario Ware makes No.15, one place ahead of Star Ocean, and EA Sports WRC comes in at No.19.
— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) <a href=«https://twitter.com/Chris_Dring/status/1721284744762060855?ref_src=» https:>November 5, 2023
Numbers are quite low overall in physical. But certainly seeing staying power
— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) <a href=«https://twitter.com/Chris_Dring/status/1721372739208888542?ref_src=» https:>November 6, 2023
No.3
— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) <a href=«https://twitter.com/Chris_Dring/status/1721288920036458745?ref_src=» https:>November 5, 2023
Hogwarts Legacy has become one of the biggest games of 2023 and it's thanks in part to the recently released Nintendo Switch version.
The Gfk has released (via GamesIndustry) the latest weekly physical sales data for the United Kingdom, as per which Hogwarts Legacy was the best-selling game in the region last week, thanks to a combination of the launch of its Nintendo Switch version and Black Friday discounts. In fact, as per GamesIndustry’s Christopher Dring, the open world RPG has enjoyed the 2023’s third-biggest physical launch for a Switch title in the UK, behind only The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
The series has flirted with the psychedelic since its early days, but with the franchise leans fully into the trippy nature of the acrobatic plumber’s adventures. Simply hearing the premise of the original suggests a nod to drug culture, from an adult perspective, as it involves a pair of blue-collar workers from Brooklyn who leave their mundane lives behind to journey to a magical mushroom land. With the mind-bending changes to reality resulting from Wonder Flowers, it is harder than ever to deny that is a psychedelic series, and embraces that more overtly than any prior entry.
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Super Mario Wonder remained at the top of the UK boxed charts for a third week, keeping EA Sports FC 24 at No.2.
Speedrunners have descended with full force upon Super Mario Bros. Wonder, following the discovery of an odd glitch which allows players to completely skip through certain mandatory areas of the game.
Boxed Super Mario Bros Wonder sales beat those of Spider-Man 2 in the UK last week, thereby overtaking the first spot on the sales chart.
Star Ocean: The Second Story R for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC, and WarioWare: Move It! for Switch are the highlights of this week’s Japanese video game releases.
Gfk’s weekly physical sales data for the United Kingdom isn’t in yet, but there have been some notable shifts. According to Games Industry’s Christopher Dring on Twitter, Super Mario Bros. Wonder is now in the top spot, despite sales dropping by 55 percent.
There are many mysteries in the video game space that we’re not likely to get answered anytime soon. Then, there are the “curiosities” that honestly don’t make sense even WHEN someone in charge explains them. Case in point, Super Mario Bros Wonder was a landmark title for Nintendo both upon its announcement in June and its release last week. But not just because the game pushed the bounds of 2D platforming in unique ways but because there was a key change behind the scenes. Specifically, the longtime voice of Mario, Charles Martinet, was replaced. But despite that big departure, we didn’t find out who was the voice of Mario until MUCH later.