Metroid Prime Remastered and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Debut on the UK Charts - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 March 2023 / 3,454 Views

Hogwarts Legacy has remained in first place on the UK retail charts, according to GfK Chart-Track for the week ending March 4, 2023. Sales for the game in its third week fell 30 percent.

Metroid Prime Remastered narrowly missed the top spot. It debuted in second place with sales 1,000 units below Hogwarts Legacy. Despite first releasing as a digital title a month ago, physical sales were enough to make it the fourth biggest Metroid launch of all time at retail. Physical sales were 45 percent lower than the original did in 2002.

Metroid Prime Remastered had the second biggest physical launch in the UK in 2022 behind Hogwarts Legacy and ahead of the Dead Space remake and Fire Emblem Engage.

FIFA 23 is down to third place with sales up six percent, while God of War: Ragnarök remained in fourth place with sales up four percent. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe remained in fifth place with sales up eight percent.

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty debuted in eighth place as the one other new release in the top 10. 96 percent of physical sales were on PlayStation platforms. Though it should be noted the game is available on Xbox Game Pass and physical sales were rather low on all platforms.

Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe in its second week fell to sixth place with sales down 44 percent. Octopath Traveler 2 dropped to 14th place with sales down 45 percent. Atomic Heart fell to 25th with sales down 69 percent.

Here are the top 10 best-selling titles for the week:

Hogwarts Legacy
Metroid Prime Remastered - NEW
FIFA 23
God of War: Ragnarök
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Kirby's Return To Dream Land Deluxe
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty - NEW
Minecraft (NS)
Grand Theft Auto V

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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

3 Comments

SuperNintend0rk (on 06 March 2023)

That's a pretty incredible debut for Prime Remastered considering the physical edition released several weeks later!

UnderwaterFunktown (on 06 March 2023)

Not bad for a late physical release

Mar1217 (on 07 March 2023)

Niiice ! Metroid is slowly but surely rising in the public/gaming sphere consciousness once again. Truly helps that the remastered work is just that amazing too. Wouldn't be surprised if it actually managed to equal the numbers of the original release worldwide maybe.