These are the best selling games in the United Kingdom
Best selling game by year[]
The sales units are based on retail tracking by GfK and digital downloads data from ISFE GSD
| Year | Title | Sales (units) | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire | ||
| 2001 | Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone | ||
| 2002 | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | ||
| 2003 | FIFA 2004 | ||
| 2004 | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | ||
| 2005 | FIFA 06 | ||
| 2006 | FIFA 07 | ||
| 2007 | FIFA 08 | ||
| 2008 | FIFA 09 | ||
| 2009 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | ||
| 2010 | Call of Duty: Black Ops | ||
| 2011 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III | 2,814,609 | [1] |
| 2012 | Call of Duty: Black Ops II | 2,672,364 | [1] |
| 2013 | Grand Theft Auto V | 3,670,234 | [1] |
| 2014 | FIFA 15 | 2,663,296 | [2] |
| 2015 | FIFA 16 | 2,516,079 | [3] |
| 2016 | FIFA 17 | 2,500,000 | [4] |
| 2017 | FIFA 18 | 2,696,721 | [5] |
| 2018 | FIFA 19 | 1,889,401 | [6] |
| 2019 | FIFA 20 | 1,502,191 | [7] |
| 2020 | FIFA 21 | 2,182,694 | [8] |
| 2021 | FIFA 22 | 2,338,778 | [9] |
| 2022 | FIFA 23 | 2,530,510 | [10] |
| 2023 | EA Sports FC 24 | 2,390,000 | [11] |
Best Selling Franchises[]
The following are the best-selling game franchises in the UK, in terms of physical sales between 1995 and April 2023. Games like LEGO Star Wars are counted under both LEGO and Star Wars.[12]
| Franchise | Revenue | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | FIFA | £1,960,000,000 |
| 2 | Call of Duty | £1,530,000,000 |
| 3 | Mario | £1,070,000,000 |
| 4 | Grand Theft Auto | £769,000,000 |
| 5 | LEGO | £506,000,000 |
| 6 | Star Wars | £492,000,000 |
| 7 | Pokémon | £486,000,000 |
| 8 | The Sims | £438,000,000 |
| 9 | Assassin’s Creed | £409,000,000 |
| 10 | Need for Speed | £378,000,000 |
ELSPA Sales Awards[]
The ELSPA Sales Awards are sales milestones for games in the United Kingdom given by the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association. They stopped supplying this data after the ELSPA became the UKIE in 2010. The following are titles that received the Diamond Award, meaning they sold over 1 million copies in the UK.
- Grand Theft Auto 3 (PS2)
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS2)
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
- The Simpsons: Hit & Run (PS2)
- Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training (DS)
- New Super Mario Bros. (DS)
- More Brain Training From Dr. Kawashima (DS)
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii)
- Wii Fit (Wii)
- Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
- Halo 3 (Xbox 360)
- Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360)
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360)
- Mario Kart DS (DS)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360)
- Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)
- Wii Fit Plus (Wii)
- Just Dance (Wii)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Transcribed from dead MCV articles https://www.neogaf.com/threads/uk-best-selling-games-of-2013-with-sales-numbers.744106/
- ↑ https://venturebeat.com/games/fifa-15-call-of-duty-are-top-selling-games-in-u-k-for-2014/
- ↑ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/games-dominated-the-uks-entertainment-top-10-in-2015
- ↑ https://eraltd.org/news-events/press-releases/2017/entertainment-sales-reached-63bn-in-2016/
- ↑ https://eraltd.org/news-events/press-releases/2018/streaming-boom-helps-entertainment-outstrip-the-printed-word/
- ↑ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/uk-video-games-market-is-now-80-percent-digital
- ↑ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/uk-video-game-sales-drop-for-the-first-time-since-2012
- ↑ https://eraltd.org/news-events/press-releases/2021/lockdown-streaming-drives-entertainment-sales-to-9bn-and-fastest-growth-rate-since-records-began/
- ↑ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/far-cry-6-guardians-of-the-galaxy-and-ratchet-and-clank-sold-better-at-physical-retail-than-digital-in-the-uk-last-year
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Chris_Dring/status/1633054370433576960
- ↑ https://eraltd.org/news-events/press-releases/2024/uk-entertainment-sales-grow-7-to-119bn
- ↑ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/star-wars-is-the-sixth-biggest-video-game-franchise-in-uk-history-uk-time-tunnel