Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War may have missed out on the top spot in its debut week, but it made up for it in week two. The Activision shooter claims No.1 in the latest UK boxed charts, despite a 27% drop in sales week-on-week.
It's actually a very slight drop over a launch week compared to what we'd usually report. Call of Duty has performed much lower than usual at UK retail, but that's because most consumers have downloaded the game instead. This chart purely tracks physical retail sales.
No.2 in the boxed charts is FIFA 21. The football game has been discounted as part of early Black Friday sales, and as a result it surged 121% in sales week-on-week.
Down in third place is the PlayStation exclusive Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The game was one of the key launch titles for PlayStation 5, which also launched last week. We don't have the console hardware sales available, but retailers told us last week that they expect PS5 to be one of the biggest console launches in UK history.
PS5 games were actually available last week, despite the console not being on sale yet. Therefore, to get an accurate picture of the best-selling PS5 physical launch games, we would have to combine this week's sales with last week. Here is the GfK Top Ten..

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