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Animal Crossing: New Horizons secures its third consecutive No. 1 spot in the British charts.

Nintendo Switch exclusivity secures its place at the summit, despite a 24% drop in weekly sales. It’s another week in which Switch has dominated the boxing game business in the UK, with Mario Kart 8: Deluxe at number 2 (sales down 23%), Super Mario 3D World at number 8 (sales down 3% ), New Super Mario Bros U at number 9 (sales down 15%) and Ring Fit Adventure at number 10 (down 37%). There are 10 Switch games in the Top 20 best selling games.

Just Dance 2021 from Ubisoft is number 3, despite a 29% drop in sales. This week, 87% of game sales were on the Nintendo Switch.

Switch proves to be the savior for UK retailers. In the first two weeks of 2021, game sales increased by 27.4% compared to the same period last year, and this is almost entirely reduced to Nintendo Switch games (in general, Switch game sales increased by 120% from year to date). PlayStation game sales are also up slightly if we combine PS4 and PS5 game sales.

The only game in the Top Ten that increased weekly sales was the ever-popular Grand Theft Auto 5, which is up four places to No. 4 due to a 6% increase in sales.

There is only one new game in the charts this week and it is the first new game to create the Top 40 in 2021. Five Nights At Freddy’s: Core Collection makes No. 32, published by Maximum Games. 55% of its sales came on Nintendo Switch, 24% on PS4 and 21% on Xbox One.

Here are the GfK Tops for the week ending January 16: