UK Sales Chart: Black Ops 3 Starts 2016 at #1

Picking up right where it left off in 2015, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 finished in first place to kick off 2016.

While there were a few movers on the chart (FIFA 16 went from 4th to 2nd), the biggest story is Battlefield 4. Thanks to price promotions on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, it re-entered the top 10, with 97% of sales last week coming from last-gen consoles.

Additionally, GfK Chart-Track notes that Grand Theft Auto V, which placed in 4th, sold 16,360 copies.

Here’s the 20 best-selling retail games in the UK for the week ending January 9, 2016, according to GfK Chart-Track:

1. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (down 68%)
2. FIFA 16 (down 55%)
3. Star Wars Battlefront (down 66%)
4. Grand Theft Auto V (down 59%; sold 16,360)
5. Fallout 4 (down 75%)
6. Rainbow Six Siege (down 58%)
7. WWE 2K16 (down 53%)
8. Just Cause 3 (down 66%)
9. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (down 68%)
10. Battlefield 4 (down 27%)
11. Minecraft: Story Mode
12. LEGO Jurassic World
13. Minecraft: Xbox Edition
14. Disney Infinity 3.0
15. Football Manager 2016
16. Minecraft: PlayStation Edition
17. Forza Motorsport 6
18. Batman: Arkham Knight
19. Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection
20. Halo 5: Guardians

Since this is a week of digital releases, don’t be surprised if Black Ops 3 is #1 again.

[Source: GfK Chart-Track (1), (2)]