77% of Tiny Tina's UK launch sales were digital | UK Digital Charts

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Christopher Dring

Head of Games B2B

Friday 1st April 2022

Interactive Software Federation of Europe

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands took the No.1 spot in the UK digital charts, the latest GSD data shows.

The 2K Games title, which is a spin-off of Borderlands, was a big digital seller, with 77% of launch sales coming via PSN and Xbox Live. 55% of the game's digital sales were on Xbox, with the remainder on PlayStation. When we include physical sales, the PlayStation and Xbox versions were neck-and-neck. This is an unusual result, as typically PlayStation -- with its larger install base -- would command a higher share of sales. This may be the result of an unusually large number of PS5 exclusive releases in recent weeks, including Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7 and Ghostwire Tokyo.

Ghostwire Tokyo and Kirby and the Forgotten Kingdom were both new releases this week. In terms of physical sales, Kirby was the No.1 game of the week. However, Bethesda and Nintendo do not share digital data. Therefore, those games do not appear in the download data.

Last week's No.1, GTA 5, drops to No.4 this week after an 83% fall in digital sales. Meanwhile, GTA Online drops from No.3 to No.7.

Elden Ring continues to sell strongly and holds the No.2 position.

Here is the GSD UK Digital Top Ten (week ending March 26th):

GSD digital data includes games from participating companies sold via Steam, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo Eshop. Participating companies are Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Big Ben Interactive, Capcom, Codemasters, Electronic Arts, Focus Home Interactive, Koch Media, Konami, Microids, Microsoft, Milestone, Paradox Interactive, Quantic Dream, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, Strelka, Take-Two, Ubisoft and Warner Bros.