Sonic Colors Ultimate Reaches No. 3 in UK Charts, Highest on Switch

Bobby Mills October 7, 2021

The colours feel so right – and to SEGA execs, so do the sales, probably. Sonic’s newest outing, an HD remaster of the beloved 2010 Wii smash Sonic Colors, hit the shores of dear old Blighty last week after a brief delay borne of delivery issues. Oh, so you’re telling me we still can’t get fuel in the pumps or food on the Tesco shelves after a month, but it only takes a short while to bring us a video game? Priorities, lads!

Regardless, the title has seemingly gone down well with British consumers, whose fervent purchasing has rocketed Sonic Colors Ultimate to 3rd place in the all-platforms chart in its first week. Rocketed, like a sugared-up Orange Wisp.

Maybe I’m just a Disney nut, but I can’t be the only one who sees it.

NintendoLife reports on the feat, which is actually a meaner one than you might think. Speaking as an actual Brit, take it from me when I say that, as a collective nation, there’s a bit of a market bias towards traditionally mainstream franchises like FIFA, CoD and GTA (or maybe we just really like acronyms). Consider, for instance, an experience I had around 5 years ago in the dark days where I still worked Christmas retail jobs. Coming across a befuddled dad in the game section of the store, trying to find a gift for his son, I offered up a series of age-appropriate recommendations: Lego Dimensions, Sonic Generations, and Mario Galaxy among them. Looking at me as if I was mad, the man replied: “those aren’t real games, mate, they’re for babies.” What did he ultimately select for his poor 6-year-old? Grand Theft Auto V. Wonder where that kid is today. Hope I never bump into him.

And with their obsession with constantly re-releasing it, more kids’ll be doomed long into the future.

So it’s actually rather impressive that the Blue Blur has managed to penetrate these preconceptions and hit the charts. While the newly-released FIFA 22 was, naturally, number one (seriously, how many alterations can you possibly make to such a rigidly structured game as football that you can crank out over twenty versions of it), Sonic nonetheless achieved decent numbers. The report states that the “physical edition has sold best on Nintendo’s platform thus far, with Switch accounting for 53% of the game’s sales so far; 32% of sales came on PS4, with 15% on Xbox One.” This is about in line for the stats that we saw with Forces and Mania – Nintendo fans just lap this stuff up.

Will you be joining them? Are you impressed by these results? Let us know!

Via, NintendoLife.