Horizon Zero Dawn Beats Arms to Top the UK Charts - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 20 June 2017 / 8,174 Views
Horizon Zero Dawn topped the UK charts, according to Chart-Track for the week ending June 17. The game climbed three spots on "continued price promotions."
Nintendo's latest Switch game, Arms, debuted in second place. It is the fourth biggest launch for a Switch game, behind The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and 1-2 Switch.
Here are the top 10 best-selling titles (combined sales) for the week:
1. Horizon Zero Dawn
2. Arms
3. Grand Theft Auto V
4. Dirt 4
5. Wipeout: Omega Collection
6. Tekken 7
7. FIFA 17
8. Overwatch
9. Injustice 2
10. Rocket League
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I'm more surprised MK8 DX is off the list than Arms bombing. The British seem to be very predictable with their gaming tastes, for the most part.
Either Horizon did very well or Arms UK launch was really bad.
Who said this game wouldn't have legs? :)
Keep chuggin' Aloy!
On the bright side, at least Arms wasn't outsold by GTA 5 lol
UK is a terrible market for Nintendo, so a new IP on 2nd place is not bad at all.
Lol people downvoting this comment when is completely right, now we have sales of japan and the game is not bombing, is just UK being terrible for Nintendo but keep downvoting.
Your comments aren't downvoted anymore, here take my upvote :)
Gave you an upvote earlier today.
Oh, UK charts...not the entire EU.
Not really a big surprise. I'm both a switch and PS4 owner and I passed on Arms myself and am more tempted to get HORIZONS ZERO DAWN which is also discounted here in Australia...I went with the LAST GUARDIAN instead which was also heavily marked down. I'm also saving my cash for (potentially) better upcoming games like Splatoon 2. Arms isn't a must have game. Nothing wrong with that. People are quick to judge.
Horizon was discounted to $40 in the US as well for the release of Arms (coincidence?), and I picked up my copy on Friday, so I wouldn't be surprised to see this same thing happen over here as well. Really enjoying it so far.
Why coincidence? It was the day she of play weekly sales. Many other titles were reduced.
Sorry *days of play!
Are we really going to act like we're surprised?
Ouch ARMS debuting less than the low selling 1-2 Switch is not a good start. Nintendo really needs better and more successful software besides the rehashed games to keep interest in the Switch. Which is already fading.
You can say Horizon was discounted but $40 is still the same price as many new releases. Most 3DS games launch around that and even ps4 titles like crash trilogy or ratchet and clank.
Horizon did amazing to beat the arms launch.
Ouch ARMS debuting less than the low selling 1-2 Switch is not a good start. Nintendo really needs better and more successful software besides the rehashed games to keep interest in the Switch. Which is already fading. - See more at: http://www.vgchartz.com/article/268512/horizon-zero-dawn-beats-arms-to-top-the-uk-charts/#commen
Why 10 downvotes? I don't get it.
