GTA 5 nonetheless guidelines the roost within the often bemusing UK market.
The UK’s Entertainment Retailer’s Association has compiled an inventory of the best-selling leisure merchandise of the yr to this point, pulling from GfK information.
Via GamesIndustry, GTA 5 is the top-ranked sport on the record, making it the best-selling sport of the yr to this point with 334,280 models.
This isn’t a lot of a shock since GTA 5 has topped the weekly UK sales charts 13 times since release in 2013, however its continued efficiency in 2017 places it at 13th general for leisure merchandise. It’s nonetheless nicely behind powerhouses like Ed Sheeran’s Divide, Rogue One and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, although.
Ghost Recon: Wildlands, which is still number one on the US charts as of the June NPD, got here in simply behind GTA 5 at 14th with 311,792 models bought.
The solely different sport within the high 20 is Horizon Zero Dawn, which got here in 17th with 286,538 models bought. That means video games have to this point out-performed Inferno, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and T2 – Trainspotting.
The UK is a little bit of a wierd market and doesn’t at all times replicate European developments, not to mention the US market, so it’s not clear how significant this info is past a reiteration that GTA 5 – or extra particularly, GTA Online – is an absolute beast and won’t cease. Will this have repercussions for future Rockstar video games? Oh sure, it certainly will.
Rockstar’s subsequent huge launch is Red Dead Redemption 2, which is coming in northern spring 2018. Apart from add-ons for GTA Online, Rockstar hasn’t launched something since GTA 5 in 2013.
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