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Switch was UK’s best-selling console of 2021, a look at the best-selling games

Posted on January 18, 2022 by (@NE_Brian) in News, Switch

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GamesIndustry has published a new report on gaming sales in the UK for 2021, and there’s more good news for Switch. The system was on top for console sales, overtaking the PlayStation 5 in the last few weeks of the year. 500,000 Switch units were sold over November and December alone.

Switch managed to have its second-biggest year “by quite a large margin”. However, sales were down compared to 2020.

Nintendo was the top publisher regarding physical sales. Of course, one of the major releases in 2021 was Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl. If sales were combined, they would have ended up tenth as the best-selling Switch game – without factoring in digital sales as Nintendo does not report that information. If we’re only looking at physical, it would have placed at #3 if sales were combined.

Here’s a look at the best-selling games of 2021 in the UK:

GSD 2021 Top 25 Games (Digital + Physical)

PositionTitle
1FIFA 22 (EA) 
2Call of Duty: Vanguard (Activision Blizzard)
3Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
4FIFA 21 (EA)
5Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Activision Blizzard)
6Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
7Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Sony)
8F1 2021 (EA/Codemasters)
9Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft)
10Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft)
11Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)*
12Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)*
13Resident Evil Village (Capcom)
14Battlefield 2042 (EA)
15Minecraft: Switch Edition (Nintendo/Mojang)*
16Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo)*
17Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft)
18Mortal Kombat 11 (Warner Bros)
19LEGO Harry Potter Collection (Warner Bros)
20Pokémon Brilliant Diamond (Nintendo)*
21Minecraft (Mojang)
22Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Square Enix)
23Just Dance 2022 (Ubisoft)
24NBA 2K21 (2K Games)
25The Crew 2 (Ubisoft)

* Digital data unavailable

GSD 2021 Top 10 Games (Physical)

PositionTitle
1FIFA 22 (EA) 
2Call of Duty: Vanguard (Activision Blizzard)
3Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)
4Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)
5Minecraft: Switch Edition (Nintendo/Mojang)
6Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo)
7Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Sony)
8FIFA 21
9Pokémon Brilliant Diamond (Nintendo)
10Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)

GSD 2021 Top 10 Games (Digital)

PositionTitle
1FIFA 22 (EA) 
2Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
3Call of Duty: Vanguard (Activision Blizzard)
4Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Activision Blizzard)
5FIFA 21 (EA)
6Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
7F1 2021 (EA/Codemasters)
8Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft)
9Resident Evil Village (Capcom)
10Battlefield 2042 (EA)

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