Far Cry 6 or Ratchet and Clank: One Dimension sold women in traditional stores than in digital stores.
The success of Switch in British stores it is beyond question. In this sense, today we have learned that in 2021 47% of all video games sold in physical format in United Kingdom they corresponded to adventures released for the hybrid system, with the Japanese company being one of the great supports in this market in the face of the digital push, although it was by no means the only support.
Releases such as Far Cry 6, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, and Ratchet and Clank: A Separate Dimension fared better commercially than boxed, exemplifying the preferences of regular solo adventurers. A big exception to this was Resident Evil 8: Village, where 54.8% of its market share came through digital platforms like Steam, PS Store, etc.
EA Sports football is gradually strengthening its dependence on digital demand, going from 52% of FIFA 21 in 2020 to 61% with FIFA 22 in 2021. Otherwise, we find it in Call of Duty: the digital share COD: Vanguard’s share was 58%, while COD: Black Ops Cold War’s share was 69%.
Below we leave you with the list of best-selling games of 2021 in the United Kingdom with the percentage of digital demand Shared by GamesIndustry.
| Videogame | Sales | digital engagement |
| FIFA 22 | 2,338,778 | 60.8% |
| Call of Duty: Vanguard | 975,339 | 58.3% |
| grand theft auto 5 | 967,242 | 76.9% |
| FIFA 21 | 602,224 | 62.3% |
| Mario Kart 8: Deluxe* | 599,881 | 0% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 549,490 | 74.3% |
| Spider-Man: Miles Morales | 505,803 | 30.6% |
| Animal Crossing: New Horizons* | 457,407 | 0% |
| Minecraft | 445,124 | 18.3% |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 395,669 | 78.2% |
| F1 2021 | 371,470 | 64.1% |
| far cry 6 | 371,020 | 44.7% |
| Assassin’s Creed Valhalla | 358,379 | 48.1% |
| Resident Evil Village | 331,252 | 54.8% |
| Super Mario 3D World + Bower’s Fury* | 321,010 | 0% |
| Battlefield 2042 | 297,462 | 58.6% |
| Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege | 236,834 | 96.3% |
| Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart | 225,477 | 18.4% |
| Pokemon Brilliant Diamond* | 210,507 | 0% |
| Guardians of the Galaxy | 192,576. | 27.4% |
It should be remembered that Nintendo does not provide data on the purchase of its software through the eShop. On the other hand, we read in GamesIndustry, 72% of all physical games sold in the UK last year were sold through online stores rather than high street stores, a slight increase from 70% a year earlier.
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