The Last of Us Part II has the Biggest UK Launch of 2020, Outsells Animal Crossing: New Horizons by 40% - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 June 2020 / 6,504 Views

The Last of Us Part II shoots straight to the top of the UK charts in its launch week, according to GfK for the week ending June 20, 2020.

The Last of Us Part II is the biggest launch for a first-party PlayStation 4 game, beating 2016's Uncharted 4: A Thief's End by just one percent. It should be noted this only includes retail sales. It sold 76 percent more units than the original did when it launched for the PlayStation 3.

The game is also the biggest launch in 2020 in the UK, outselling the previous record holder, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, by 40 percent.

Ring Fit Adventure (NS) remains in second place for a third straight week, as sales increased 31 percent week-on-week. The release of the first expansion pass for Pokémon Sword and Shield did help the game rise up the charts. Sales for Pokémon Sword increased 51 percent as it came in at number nine, while Shield comes in at 22nd.

The Last of Us Part II is the Biggest UK Launch of 2020, Outsells Animal Crossing: New Horizons by 40%

Here are the top 10 best-selling titles:

The Last of Us Part II
Ring Fit Adventure
FIFA 20
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Grand Theft Auto V
Minecraft (NS)
51 Worldwide Games
Pokemon Sword
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Thanks GamesIndustry.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.

24 Comments

Dahum (on 21 June 2020)

The fact that its only retail during a pandemic and broke all those records is mighty impressive!!

alan95 Dahum (on 22 June 2020)

did animal crossing include digital, or is that just retail too?

Dahum Dahum (on 22 June 2020)

I’m guessing retail only.. not completely sure tho.

golfgt170 (on 21 June 2020)

Now we can rest easy that all the haters bought the game aswell. Congrats to ND!

V-r0cK (on 21 June 2020)

Metacritic's User Score got nothing on this!

Immersiveunreality V-r0cK (on 21 June 2020)

That is very true!
But they still can learn from the criticism and make an even better product next time.

DonFerrari V-r0cK (on 22 June 2020)

What criticism to expect from the 50k troll reviews? PSN have the game at 4,5 with 7k reviews, on metacritic the score is 3,9.

DonFerrari (on 22 June 2020)

That is massive

Spike0503 (on 21 June 2020)

I loved the original TLOU so I'm happy TLOU2 is becoming a success.

NobleTeam360 (on 21 June 2020)

Congrats to Naughty Dog, keep doing the things that make you great!

Koragg (on 21 June 2020)

Insane, did not expect it to be this big.

Evilms (on 21 June 2020)

carnage

Immersiveunreality (on 21 June 2020)

Curious how it compares to other recent AAA Sony titles.

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hunter_alien (on 22 June 2020)

I only appear in the digital sales, so I did not help one bit here, but congrats to Sony and ND for yet another amazing launch :-)

LivingMetal (on 22 June 2020)

I've been asking around and have been receiving anecdotally that the game has been selling out or at least close to selling out in most places I've asked. Keep it up.

hush404 (on 22 June 2020)

Never thought I'd see an article pitting Animal Crossing and TLOU2 against each other XD

xMetroid (on 21 June 2020)

I mean it was expected but congrats ! Wait AC left the top 10 ? RFA doing amazing, Pkmn climbing back with the DLC, we not know the actual big DLC will have impact on the legs.

think-man (on 22 June 2020)

I haven't even picked it up yet. My hype dyed down in recent months and will probably wait until it's cheaper. I did love the original though, would put it in my top 5 ps3 games.