Kirby And The Forgotten Land outsells Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands in UK charts

metro.co.uk:

The Forgotten Land has become the fastest selling Kirby game ever, as Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands sells less than 10% of Borderlands 3.

The UK has always been one of Nintendo’s weakest markets, in large part because the NES arrived late and was extremely expensive – which meant there’s much less nostalgia here for classic Nintendo franchise, compared to the US or Japan.

Kirby, in particular, is usually a complete non-event in the UK, and yet new game Kirby And The Forgotten Land has just beaten two high profile, multiformat games in the latest UK physical sales charts.

Not only that but in less than a week it’s already become the fifth biggest Kirby game ever in the UK, and at launch sold 2.5 times more than current best-seller Kirby Star Allies.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that much though, as the franchise remains a minor one for Nintendo, even outside of the UK, with the launch still coming in below that of last year’s Metroid Dread.

However, Kirby’s success was still enough to keep Borderlands spin-off Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands from the number one spot, with the game selling less than 10% of Borderlands 3 during its launch week.

With digital sales included it may have beaten Kirby overall but it’s clearly been an underwhelming launch, with 2K refusing to send out review code at launch to many sites, including us – and even those that did get it on time were only sent the PC version.

It’s already seeming unlikely there’ll be a Wonderlands 2 but Ghostwire: Tokyo has performed even worse, only managing a debut at number 11.

Although technically a multiformat title, since it’s also on PC, the game is a timed exclusive for PlayStation 5, which was organised before Microsoft bought publisher Bethesda.

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