Horizon Forbidden West Tops UK Leaderboard After Weekend Open

Forbidden Horizon in the West – The first PlayStation exclusive of 2022 – topped the UK charts in its opening week. Data collected by Ukie shows that the much-anticipated Horizon Zero Dawn sequel topped the UK box office for the week ending February 19. The data does not include digital sales (expected next week). ), so doesn’t give the full picture of the game’s launch sales.

Forbidden West is the second-biggest PS5 launch to date, ahead of FIFA 22 but after Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Guerrilla Games’ title is also the second-biggest launch of 2022, behind Nintendo’s Pokemon Legends. Figures from Christopher Dring of GamesIndustry.biz confirm actual sales fell ‘about a third’ from Horizon Zero Dawn’s launch sales. Dring says this is not surprising considering the still limited availability of PlayStation 5 and the rise of digital media in recent years.

A spectacular opening for Horizon: Forbidden West in the UK Boxed chart (at number 1). Second biggest PS5 retail launch after Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Almost a third of sales are on PS4. The second biggest launch of the year after Pokemon Legends

– Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) February 20, 2022

Horizon Forbidden West PS5 Sales Beat Pokemon, Dying Light 2

As for the rest of the top 10, Pokémon Legends: Arceus dropped to second place in the rankings, making way for Forbidden West. Legends has held the top spot in the UK physical rankings for the past three weeks. Fellow colleague Dying Light 2: Stay Human’s recent release remains in the top three at number three, down one spot from last week’s Monday. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is so far in the top 5 at #4. Meanwhile, FIFA 22 from EA Sports is the fifth best-selling boxed game of the week.

After the announcement Call of Duty 2022 As the sequel to Modern Warfare (2019), Call of Duty: Vanguard leads the charts from tenth to seventh. As usual, Minecraft is still in the top 10 out of 8 games. However, Grand Theft Auto V just missed out in eleventh place.

Here is the full top 10:

1. Forbidden Horizon in the West
2. Pokémon Legend: Arceus
3. Dying Light 2: Stay human
4. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
5. FIFA 22
6. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
7. Call of Duty: Vanguard
8. Minecraft
9. Mario Party Superstars
10. Just Dance 2022

In other news, No Man’s Sky is receiving full Steam floor support when the console launches later this week. EA has denied blaming Halo Infinite for Battlefield 2042 failed.