January 2020 Update: FIFA 20 And Modern Warfare Tops UK Best Selling Games Of 2019..

• FIFA 20 And Modern Warfare Tops UK Best Selling Games Of 2019..

• Top 10 UK Best Selling Games Of 2019

Some people don't fancy physical copies anymore, they'll rather go for digital copies. Here in the UK, 2019 retail sales dropped by 19.8% when compared to the previous year. 

FIFA and Call Of Duty Modern Warfare made it to the top list with a massive sells, over a million copies sold across various retailers in the UK. In total, 17.6 million physical games were sold, which generated £602.5 million ($789 million) in revenue for the year. Digital sales in the UK grew by only 1.1%, earning £3.17 billion ($4.15 billion) in 2019. When combined with physical sales, £3.77 billion ($4.94 billion) was generated in 2019. This total is a 3.4% drop over 2018, marking the first time UK software sales have declined since 2012.
Publisher Electronic Arts stole the show with three of the year’s best-selling retail games in the UK: (FIFA 20, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and FIFA 19). Other notable publishers were Rockstar, which had two games chart (Red Dead Redemption 2 and Grand Theft Auto V) and Activision, with two games as well (Modern Warfare and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled).

Top 10 2019’s best-selling Retail Games In The UK:

1. FIFA 20: 1,502,191 Copies
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: 1,192,121 Copies
3. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe: 465,062 Copies
4. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order: 438,465 Copies
5. Red Dead Redemption 2: 306,392 Copies
6. FIFA 19: 278,417 Copies
7. Pokémon Sword: 273,991 Copies
8. Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled: 267,285 Copies
9. Grand Theft Auto V: 247,357 Copies
10. Tom Clancy’s The Division 2: 237,226 Copies

Modern Warfare and FIFA 20 were both consistently at the top of the charts.

Source: GamesIndustry.biz