![]() ![]() In fact, the three best-selling LEGO Star Wars games didn’t feature in the biggest launch list at all. Games like LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga and Star Wars: Battlefront II (the 2005 original) didn’t deliver big day one numbers, but found an audience more gradually. Biggest Star Wars Game Launches (UK) PosĪs for the biggest Star Wars games in the UK, there are many that rose up the charts over time. In terms of EA's recent Star Wars titles (since 2015), only Star Wars Squadrons missed out on the Top Ten. Last year's LEGO Star Wars game was the fourth biggest Star Wars launch of all time (and the biggest in the LEGO Star Wars sub-series). Star Wars game releases have slowed down in recent years, but when they come they launch big. ![]() The game is likely to have charted in the Top Five with digital data included. This week’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will want to beat its predecessor - Fallen Order - which is in sixth place. The game sold more than double the previous best-selling Star Wars game – The Force Unleashed back in 2008. The biggest boxed Star Wars game launch came in 2015, when EA released Star Wars Battlefront for PS4, Xbox One and PC. For clarity, LEGO Star Wars games are counted under both ‘LEGO’ and ‘Star Wars’ for the below chart. It’s bigger than Pokémon, but behind the LEGO franchise (note: All data is based on boxed game sales only). It means that there are more games based on Star Wars than any other IP, including Mario and The Sims (with all its various expansion packs).Ĭombining data from GfK, Gallup and Chart-Track, the charts company says that £492 million has been made by physical Star Wars video games since 1995, making it the sixth biggest video games IP in the UK. That’s according to Dorian Bloch, the games lead at GfK. That’s an average of almost four Star Wars games a year over the last three decades. The upcoming release of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will by the 119th Star Wars video game released since 1993 (when LucasArts published X-Wing). ![]()
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