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Aliens: Fireteam Elite outsells Mario Kart 8: Deluxe - last week charts

Published: 10:30, 30 August 2021
Focus Home Interactive
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is dissolving the competition
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is dissolving the competition

Last week's charts are in and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart are out of the top ten. Aliens: Fireteam Elite is currently safe at number one having doubled Mario Kart 8: Deluxe's sales.

GFK's software charts for all formats are in and here are is a quick overview of last week's numbers.

Aliens: Fireteam Elite by Focus Home Interactive was the big winner and debuted at number one. This is the first time in three years Focus Home Interactive had a game chart this high. Aliens: Fireteam Elite was a smash hit with the PlayStation 5 crowd which is responsible for no less than 42 per cent of total sales. Next in line and eager to play Fireteam were Xbox Series X|S people who accounted for 31 per cent of traffic.

Aliens: Fireteam Elite can rest comfortably in the top spot as it moved more than twice copies than Mario Kart 8: Deluxe which rose up the ranks to find its place at the number one spot for last week.

Sony's Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut traded in its number one spot for a time-share at number 9. The game's sales dropped 50 per cent week-on-week which directly correlates with the availability of PlayStation 5 consoles . All PS5 exclusives including Spider-Man: Miles Morales (now at number five, down from three) and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (second place last week, down to 12) have suffered the same fate.

Sony Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart trailer showing robot character and protagonist Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

# Title Last week
1 Aliens: Fireteam Elite   /
2 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 4
3 Minecraft 5
4 Grand Theft Auto V 6
5 Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales 3
6 FIFA 21 10
7 Animal Crossing: New Horizons 8
8 Marvel's Avengers 11
9 Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut 1
10 The Last of Us Part II 12

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