Nintendo Switch dominates April 2021 UK monthly chart

Over the 4 weeks ending on Could 1, 2021, slightly over 90,000 video games had been bought within the UK. This info comes from GfK Leisure.

In comparison with the identical interval in 2020, it’s an expectedly harsh drop of 59 p.c year-on-year. On condition that April 2020 was the primary full month of lockdown, and noticed the launch of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there was by no means going to be a good comparability. The video games market noticed an instantaneous enhance on the time in each sport and accent gross sales, and now that lockdown is easing within the area, there’s no motive to count on that gross sales would improve additional than they did one yr in the past.

Recreation console gross sales spiked 230 p.c in models and 192 p.c in income in April 2020. With this in thoughts, the drop of 59 p.c seen this yr isn’t as dangerous because it may appear.

As anticipated, the Nintendo Swap was the best-selling console of the month, beating even the PS5 from the highest spot. Inventory of PS5 consoles dropped a lot that the PS4 outsold it over the month, a problem Sony wants to handle earlier than too lengthy.

Microsoft managed to get new Xbox Sequence X/S consoles to the market. This made the machines the second best-selling behind the Swap for the month. Microsoft’s machines are catching up with the competitors, however proper now the Swap and PS5 are preventing it out for the best-selling console of 2021.

Round one-third of all bodily video games bought within the month had been revealed by Nintendo. The corporate had a market share of 32.5 p.c, and virtually half, 49.6 p.c, of all bodily video games bought had been for the Nintendo Swap. Regardless of it solely being on sale for 2 days of the month, New Pokemon Snap, a Swap unique, was the best-selling sport of the month.

Bodily gross sales fell by 41 p.c year-on-year in April 2021, with a complete of 650523 boxed video games bought.

The highest ten best-selling bodily video games for April 2021 within the UK had been as follows.