US best selling video games: Week of September 28, 2019

FIFA 20 has released and took the top of charts in many countries in the world, including the U.S.

The year-on-year sales of physical units of FIFA 20 was less than FIFA 19 by marginal 6%. Around half of the sales of FIFA 20 was on PlayStation 4, and the other half of units were Xbox One and Switch combined. The Switch platform was the Legacy Edition and sold significantly less than Xbox One.

Another sports title NBA 2K20 kept the second place of the charts due to only a slight decrease of 3% in sales compared with last week. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, which released last week, has had a week-on-week drop of sales of 56% and slipped down to the third position of the charts.

Borderlands 3 and Gears 5 both released a couple of weeks ago and are still performing very well, with Borderlands 3 having a week-on-week sales drop of 28% and Gears 5 sales drop of only 10% compared with the last week sales.

Another new release this week, Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age for Switch, released a year later than on PlayStation 4 platform and took the 6th place in the charts. EA’s other sports title, Madden NFL 20 still sells very well with a 32% week-on-week drop of sales compared with last week. Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled has got some discounts in the retail, which increased the units sales of the title by 40% and placed it in the 8th place.

This week’s chart was predominantly sports-related with two major titles from EA and one from 2K.