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Crash Bandicoot blocks Splatoon 2 from UK chart top spot

Nintendo Switch exclusive Splatoon 2 has had to settle for second place in the UK chart, behind the resurgent Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy.

Splatoon 2 sold solidly, with sales up 59 per cent on the launch of Splatoon on Wii U.

But, after four weeks of release and an influx of new stock, Crash claimed its third chart number one.

Splatoon 2's launch was not strong enough to trouble the opening sales of Switch's top bestsellers - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

The launch of Splatoon 2 did boost sales of both Mario and Zelda, however - likely a few more folk picked up a Switch this past week and wanted another game alongside Splatoon 2.

Crash
Splatoon 2
GTA5
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Overwatch
Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Final Fantasy 12: Zodiac Age
FIFA 17
Fallout 4
Lego Worlds

KK wrote:Back to the N.Sane Trilogy, they've really buggered up the vehicle handling of the Coco water levels. I went back and played the original and the handling is much more precise on PSone. It's far too twitchy in this new version.

Top 10 UK Sales Chart: PS4's Crash Bandicoot Trilogy Is Top Yet Again

Crash Bandicoot's N. Sane Trilogy is top of the UK charts for a third successive week and a fifth week in total, according to sales monitor Chart-Track. The company says the remaster trilogy has now achieved "the most weeks at No.1 for a PS4-exclusive title and the most weeks at No.1 for any title so far this year."

The week ending August 5 also sees Grand Theft Auto V rise one place to No.2 after it was revealed recently that the Rockstar open-world game is the UK's best-selling physical title so far this year. Below that, continued price promotions see three Bethesda titles shift up one slot--Fallout 4 is now No.3, Doom No.4, and Dishonored 2 No.5. Splatoon 2, which took second spot for its first two weeks on sale, has now slipped to No.6.

It's not just in the UK that Crash Bandicoot is performing well. Sony revealed last week that the remaster trilogy was the best-selling title on PSN in the US and Europe last month, and publisher Activision stated the game has "surpassed all … expectations by a pretty wide margin."

The company went on to say that Crash's success may pave the way for more classic games to make a comeback. "While there are no new announcements today, I think you can be confident there will be more activity like this in the future with more great IP," said Activision's CEO, Eric Hirshberg. "The other opportunity beyond remasters is to look at some of our classic IP and ask whether or not it can be reborn on a new platform, like what we're doing with Skylanders on mobile. Our IP library is an asset that, when done right, can be very powerful."

You can read the full top 10 sales chart below, courtesy of Chart-Track. Note this table does not include digital sales data, and so should not be considered representative of all UK game sales.

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
Grand Theft Auto V
Fallout 4
Doom
Dishonored 2
Splatoon 2
Battlefield 1
Miitopia
FIFA 17
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

KK wrote:You need to start with 3 and work backwards.

Crash 1 becomes insanely difficult by the time you reach the 2nd wall.

Banjo wrote:I completed that for my cousin yesterday. You can lame it out and jump onto the ropes on either side, then run along. Jumping is precise though.

Qikz wrote:

Banjo wrote:I completed that for my cousin yesterday. You can lame it out and jump onto the ropes on either side, then run along. Jumping is precise though.

Yeah I realise you can do that, but I keep falling off.

I see these videos of people running along, I try that and slip off immediately.