After a silent week (with just ONE new title in the top 40), Kratos kept its first place for the third week in a row.

It’s worthy to talk about this one newcomer game, though, even though it’s not a brand new game per se: Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze started in second place, but it’s a 2014 Wii U title’s brand new Nintendo Switch port, which already claimed 17% of the lifetime sales so far. (Was the Wii U that much of a flop compared to the Switch…?)

God of War still leads the physical game sales chart in the United Kingdom (despite a 56% week-on-week sales drop), making it the first time for a Sony-published game since July 2014 to claim three first places in a row. The last time it happened was with The Last of Us: Remastered. As there are no major games launching this week, Kratos could pull in a fourth week, too. Far Cry 5 slipped back from second to third, and Nintendo Labo’s Variety Pack dropped from 3rd to 13th (with a 62% drop), and the other Labo pack, the Robot Pack, disappeared from the top 40, Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is not in the top 10 anymore, and even Grand Theft Auto V fell out of it to 12th (even with a 2% weekly increase in sales).

As the second half of May is going to be dominated by first-party titles (State of Decay 2 – Microsoft Xbox One/Windows 10, Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition – Nintendo Switch, Detroit: Become Human – Sony PlayStation 4), God of War will disappear from the top soon.

Source: GamesIndustry