UK Sales Charts: Call of Duty Remains Steady on PS5, PS4 Despite Black Ops 6's Xbox Game Pass Inclusion | Push Square

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The UK's latest physical games chart has arrived, and on the face of it, there's nothing too out of the ordinary. However, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is an interesting case; it's the first series entry that launches day and date on Xbox Game Pass, and despite this change, it seems sales remain steady on PS5 and PS4.

Debuting at number one (of course), Black Ops 6's physical sales are predominantly for the PlayStation versions, with Sony's last and current-gen consoles garnering an 88 per cent combined share. This isn't too surprising, as you have to imagine most who play it on Xbox will simply download the game via their Game Pass subscription instead. However, as GamesIndustry.biz's Christopher Dring points out, physical sales on PS5 and PS4 are consistent with previous entries, meaning the Game Pass inclusion hasn't made a notable impact on where people choose to play Call of Duty.

Dring says physical sales are 10 per cent lower compared to last year's Modern Warfare 3, which is due to Game Pass, while sales on Sony's systems are in line with expectations. To be clear, MW3's sales were also down compared to the entry before it, but the difference is that its physical sales were at least consistently down across the board, whereas Black Ops 6 has only had a big physical dip on Xbox.

And at the end of the day, this is purely based on physical sales information from one country — it'll be interesting to see the true impact of Game Pass when everything and everywhere is accounted for. The UK trend seems to suggest no big impact on PS5 and PS4 sales, though.

Elsewhere on the chart, Sonic X Shadow Generations arrives in third place, while the remainder of the top 10 is made up of the usual suspects.

Here's the latest top 10 in full.

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