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Top 10 UK Sales Chart: Star Wars Battlefront 2 Fails To Top Chart In Debut Week

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amid much controversy last week, and now it has failed to top the UK chart for its first week on sale. The sci-fi shooter was "narrowly" beaten by
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in that game's third week of availability, according to sales monitor Chart Track.

What's more,
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reports that Battlefront II's UK physical sales were down 61% compared to the 2015 series reboot,
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. Some of that shortfall would have been recovered in increasing digital sales, but it's unlikely enough units would have been sold over PSN, Xbox Live, and Origin to make up that gulf.

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. We awarded the game a 6/10 in our
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In contrast, Call of Duty: WWII launched two weeks prior to
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and
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. During its opening weekend, the game sold twice as many copies as
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did during the same period last year, taking over $500m in that period.
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, though they've been delayed so
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could be fixed.

Below the pair of shooters in the UK chart this week lies
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, while
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debut at No.4 and No.5, respectively. We enjoyed the pair of new Pokemon games; critic Kallie Plagge said they offer a "fun-filled and uplifting Pokemon adventure" that includes "enough changes to stand apart as the definitive version of the seventh generation games." Read more in our full
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Other new titles this week include
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--which has just launched on PS4 and Xbox One following its PC release in 2014--at No.7,
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at No.8, and
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at No.10. You can read the full top 10 sales chart below, courtesy of
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and Chart-Track. Note this table does not include digital sales data, and so should not be considered representative of all UK game sales.

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