Cyberpunk 2077 failed to revalidate the top spot in UK weekly physical sales. Despite the lack of new releases, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla sold more physical copies during the week period ending December 19, a clear reflection that The critics press and users revoked by the title of CD Projekt RED had a direct impact on your business performance.

AC Valhalla snatches Cyberpunk 2077, the best-selling game title the week before Christmas

As it advances GamesIndustry, the latest report from GfK reflects an 80% drop in weekly physical sales for Cyberpunk 2077, falling from first to third, just behind new releases from Ubisoft and Call of Duty: Froide Warrior Black Ops; all three in the state of multiplatform video games. While this 80% drop between opening week and the next is not entirely unusual, works like The Last of Us Part 2 or Valhalla itself have dropped by 80% and 70% respectively over the course of their second. week. bad press Polish study title had a negative impact on a period of the year marked by sales exceeding. This time it was not like that.

It works like FIFA 21 rise to fourth place and improve their weekly sales by 40%; while Animal Crossing: New Horizons ranks fifth. Interestingly, in the top 5 of the UK’s top 10 last week, the difference in sales was only 9000 units between the first and the fifth.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, with this first step, becomes the UK’s best-selling physical video game in the week leading up to Christmas 2020. Over the past decade, that credit has almost always been taken by the annual iteration of Call of Duty; with the exception of Red Dead Redemption 2 in 2018, FIFA 14 in 2013, and The Elder Scrolls: V: Skyrim in 2011.

Cyberpunk 2077 still withdrawn from sale to the public through PS Store; in physical format, it can be purchased for PS4, Xbox One and PC. Patch 1.05 fixed some aspects of the console version, but the title will not be fully finalized until February 2021.

References | GamesIndustry