The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Tops the UK Retail Charts With Biggest Launch of 2023 - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 14 May 2023 / 4,776 Views

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom unsurprisingly debuted in first place on the UK retail charts, according to GfK data for the week ending May 13, 2023.

The game was easily the biggest launch of 2023 with sales over 50 percent higher than the retail launch of Hogwarts Legacy in the UK. It is already the eighth best-selling The Legends of Zelda game of all time and set the record for the biggest The Legend of Zelda launch.

Hogwarts Legacy dropped to second place with sales down 68 percent week-on-week. The game did launch for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One the previous week.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is down one spot to third place with sales down 50 percent. FIFA 23 is up one spot to fourth place with sales up 43 percent, while Mario Kart 8 Deluxe fell from fourth to fifth place with sales flat compared to the previous week.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild re-entered the top 10 in eighth place with sales up 31 percent week-on-week.

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

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - NEW
Hogwarts Legacy
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
FIFA 23
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Dead Island 2
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Minecraft Legends

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

Mar1217 (on 15 May 2023)

When you think about it, just the fact that it easily surpassed such a massive multi-platform game like Hogwarts Legacy ... Kinda of insane how real the hype was for this title

Otter Mar1217 (on 17 May 2023)

In fairness Hogwarts Legacy's console install base at launch is about half of Switches. None the less, still a very impressive feat for Zelda to competing for biggest launch of the year.

We don't get digital numbers from Nintendo but Hogwarts will probably remain the biggest overall launch of the year.