Nintendo’s (NTDOY) “Mario vs. Donkey Kong” was the top-selling physical game in the U.K. this week, with launch sales 64% higher than that of Nintendo’s 2018 re-release of “Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker” for the Switch, Gamesindustry.biz’s Christopher Dring reports. Ubisoft’s (UBSFY) newest release “Skull & Bones” came in fourth place in its debut weekend, with sales less than a quarter of Microsoft’s (MSFT) multiplayer pirate game “Sea of Thieves” in 2018, the author notes.
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