Elden Ring is the biggest release after FIFA, Call of Duty and Red Dead Redemption 2

Elden Ring is being the biggest console launch in the UK, excluding FIFA, Call of Duty: Vanguard and Red Dead Redemption 2. The information comes from the website gamesindustry.biz, where it is reported that according to GSD data they find that the Elder Ring sales are 2,5 times higher than Horizon: Forbidden West, released last week.

Aside from Call of Duty, FIFA and Red Dead Redemption 2, Elden Ring is being the biggest launch of all time in the UK. According to DSD data, the game's sales were higher than Cyberpunk 2077 and Assassin's Creed Valhalla. However, it is important to remember that Nintendo does not share digital data about its games.

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Digital version of Elder Ring dominates sales

According to GSD, the purchase of the digital version of Elden Ring represents more than 68% of the total copies of the title sold. The biggest sales of the game in the digital version occurred on the Xbox and PC platforms. Eighty-five percent of Xbox sales were in the game's digital format, while on PC that number was 73%. In the case of Sony's PS5 and PS4 consoles, it was a XNUMX-XNUMX split between physical and digital media.

Considering Elden Ring's physical and digital media, 32% of sales took place on PlayStation 5, while on PC it was 30%. Already on Xbox had a share of 29% in sales and on PS4 only 9%.

Horizon: Forbidden West loses top-selling game rank to Elden Ring

The great success of Elden Ring caused Horizon: Forbidden West to miss the top selling game in the UK, with sales below 80% of the total. In digital media, Forbidden West dropped to third place, behind FIFA 22.

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UK's best-selling games of the week

Check out the ranking of the best selling games (digital + physical) in the UK for the week (until February 26th) below.

See below the ranking of the UK's best selling digital games for the week (until February 26th).