UK Video Game Chart: Just Cause 3 & Rainbow Six Siege fail in bid to topple FIFA 16

FIFA 16 has held on to the top of the UK Video Game Chart despite a 41 per cent drop off in sales following the Black Friday bump, reports Chart-Track.

Black Ops 3 is second, with Star Wars Battlefront also holding in third spot. Just Cause 3 is the week’s highest new entry at No.4, with launch sales up by an impressive 46 per cent over Just Cause 2.

Fallout 4 is down one place into fifth, followed by Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege which is new at No.6. Unless it has a long tail, RB6 could be a costly flop for the publisher.

Minecraft: Story Mode continues to deliver at No.7 with sales up 16 per cent, chased by GTA 5, Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and WWE 2K16.

Wii U’s major RPG release Xenoblade Chronicles X makes its debut at No.28, but did outsell the original Wii title by 73 per cent on launch week.

Source: UKIE Games Charts, compiled by GfK Chart-Track, (All Prices) Week 49, 2015

1. FIFA 16

2. CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS III

3. STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT

4. JUST CAUSE 3

5. FALLOUT 4

6. TOM CLANCY’S RAINBOW 6: SIEGE

7. MINECRAFT: STORY MODE

8. GRAND THEFT AUTO V

9. UNCHARTED: THE NATHAN DRAKE COLLECTION

10. WWE 2K16

11. HALO 5: GUARDIANS

12. ASSASSIN’S CREED: SYNDICATE

13. LEGO DIMENSIONS

14. RISE OF THE TOMB RAIDER

15. DISNEY INFINITY 3.0

16. FORZA MOTORSPORT 6

17. MINECRAFT: XBOX EDITION

18. LEGO JURASSIC WORLD

19. JUST DANCE 2016

20. NEED FOR SPEED

There’s nothing new until the new year, so expect the final few weeks of the year to be fought by the current chart-toppers.

We’re unlikely to hear anything from Ubisoft about Rainbow Six Siege until its next earnings report, but it seems possible sales were considerably damaged by a couple of poor betas which knocked consumer confidence in the product.