UK Charts: NBA 2K18 tops PES as the biggest new game of the week
Destiny 2 remains at No.1
NBA 2K18 has enjoyed the biggest UK launch week ever for a basketball game.
As a result, the title narrowly outsold Pro Evolution Soccer 2018. It is a huge achievement for a basketball game to outsell a football title in the UK, with 2K's game taking second place in the charts.
Konami's soccer game sold roughly in-line with last year's title.
Destiny 2, unsurprisingly, remains at No.1, despite a 71% drop in sales.
There are a large number of new titles this week. Alongside the aforementioned NBA 2K18 and PES 2018, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider debuts at No.6, Metroid: Samus Returns makes No.8, Rayman: Definition Edition starts at No.11, with NHL 18 landing at No.23.
None of these games are especially huge, and as a result the market is down week-on-week by 27% (in terms of unit sales). But the number of new titles are beginning to ramp up as we head into the year end period.
| Last Week | This Week | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Destiny 2 |
| New Entry | 2 | NBA 2K18 |
| New Entry | 3 | Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 |
| 5 | 4 | Fallout 4 |
| 2 | 5 | Uncharted: The Lost Legacy |
| New Entry | 6 | Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider |
| 4 | 7 | Grand Theft Auto V |
| New Entry | 8 | Metroid: Sams Returns |
| 6 | 9 | Crash Bandicoot: N.Sane Trilogy |
| 3 | 10 | Forza Horizon 3 |