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Fire Emblem Engage is the 2nd biggest motorboat for the bid successful the UK

We person our archetypal caller No.1 successful the UK Boxed Charts, and it is Nintendo with its turn-based strategy RPG Fire Emblem Engage.

The title's motorboat income are 31% little than what its predecessor managed (2019's Fire Emblem Three Houses). The caller crippled has a much anime-style look to the graphics, which whitethorn person constricted its Western entreaty slightly. Yet adjacent so, it is inactive the 2nd biggest motorboat for the bid successful the UK, up of cult 3DS deed Fire Emblem Awakening.

That means FIFA 23 drops to 2nd spot aft a 21% autumn successful income week-on-week, portion God of War Ragnarok is down a spot to No.3 with a 26% drop. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe holds No.4 with a 3% income summation week-on-week, portion rounding up the Top Five is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which is down 2 places aft a 29% income slide.

The biggest riser of the week is The Last of Us Part 1, which returns to the charts astatine No.20 with a 238% spike successful income week-on-week. The crippled has been boosted by the caller TV bid based connected the title, which is disposable to presumption successful the UK via Sky Atlantic.

The PS4 mentation of the game, The Last of Us: Remastered, besides re-entered the charts astatine No.32 with a 322% income spike.

Other large risers includes Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. The 2017 crippled is astatine No.12 this week with a 104% income rise. This was owed to the crippled being sold for £11 astatine stores specified arsenic Argos and Amazon.

Battlefield 2042 is backmost astatine No.25 with income up 177%. Again, this was due to the fact that the rubric was disposable for £10 from Argos and Amazon. And The Callisto Protocol is backmost successful the charts astatine No.16. The fearfulness game, based connected the Dead Space series, saw a income emergence of 83% aft its terms dropped to £30 astatine immoderate retailers.

Here is the GfK UK Boxed Top Ten for the week ending January 21, 2023:

Last Week This Week Title
New Entry 1 Fire Emblem Engage
1 2 FIFA 23
2 3 God of War Ragnarok
4 4 Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
6 5 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
6 6 Pokémon Violet
5 7 Nintendo Switch Sports
7 8 Minecraft (Switch)
8 9 Animal Crossing: New Horizons
9 10 Pokémon Scarlet

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