The first physical sales chart for the UK of 2025 has arrived, and once again Hogwarts Legacy has managed to conjure itself up first place.
In fact, the sales chart is fairly notable for the fact that it doesn’t contain many 2024 releases. Only three titles on the list were released in 2024.
Circana analyst Mat Piscatella commented on this very fact over on Bluesky, saying “The biggest challenge in the video game industry going into 2025 is that the list of most played games today looks the same as it did in 2018. That’s my hill. I also believe this is a Very Not Good Thing for the overall industry.”
Anyways. The biggest challenge in the video game industry going into 2025 is that the list of most played games today looks the same as it did in 2018.
That’s my hill. I also believe this is a Very Not Good thing for the overall industry.
— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) 6 January 2025 at 22:44
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Hogwarts Legacy now holds the distinction of charting 100 times, and the last we heard had managed to sell over 30 million copies.
EA Sports 25 takes the second spot, while Elden Ring has suddenly popped back up to 3rd place. Perhaps Christmas sales helped it out? Not that it needs much help considering it was last reported at 28.6 million units sold.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has slipped down to 4th place, the lowest it has been since releasing. Just the other day, we discovered exactly how expensive making Call of Duty games can be, so those sales are important.
UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 4th January, 2025
- Hogwarts Legacy
- EA Sports FC 25
- Elden Ring
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Super Mario Party Jamboree
- Nintendo Switch Sports
- Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate
- Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition
- Minecraft (Switch)