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Chart track has published its list of top-selling games of the last year. And there are no real surprises in there; FIFA and CoD continue to dominate sales and top the table, followed by Fallout 4! The closest we come to a surprise is with the longevity of games released in 2014 that appear on this list; Mario Kart 8 is probably the biggest surprise given how poorly the WiiU is selling – Assassins Creed Unity is also here, which shows that patches can change the fortune of those broken games.

This shouldn’t be taken as gospel. However, it should be noted that Chart Track neither take digital downloads into consideration nor do they release the sales figures. Nevertheless, this definitely gives us a good insight into the buying habits of video game players in the UK.

They do, however, release market share information and unsurprisingly Sony’s Playstation 4 has the lion‘s share of the software market with a hugely impressive 36%; meanwhile the Xbox One has a 29.7% share. The hardware sold is nowhere near this close (PS4 is still outselling the One 2 to 1 according to latest figures), but it shows that games sell on both consoles – so fear not Xbox One owners those 3rd party developers will not be abandoning you this generation.

So here is the list; in full!
1. FIFA 16 (EA)
2. Call Of Duty: Black Ops III (Activision Blizzard)
3. Fallout 4 (Bethesda)
4. Star Wars: Battlefront (EA)
5. Grand Theft Auto V (Take-Two)
6. Batman: Arkham Knight (Warner Bros.)
7. FIFA 15 (EA)
8. Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
9. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (Ubisoft)
10. Lego Jurassic World (Warner Bros.)
11. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Bandai Namco)
12. Battlefield Hardline (EA)
13. Minecraft: Xbox 360 and Xbox One Edition (Microsoft)
14. Minecraft: Story Mode (Telltale Games)
15. Halo 5: Guardians (Microsoft)
16. Minecraft: PlayStation 3, 4, and Vita Edition (Sony)
17. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Konami)
18. Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (Sony)
19. Dying Light (Warner Bros.)
20. The Elder Scrolls Online (Bethesda)
21. Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft)
22. Just Cause 3 (Square Enix)
23. WWE 2K16 (Take-Two)
24. Forza Motorsport 6 (Microsoft)
25. Lego Dimensions (Warner Bros.)
26. Mortal Kombat X (Warner Bros.)
27. Destiny: The Taken King (Activision Blizzard)
28. Destiny (Activision Blizzard)
29. Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft)
30. Rise Of The Tomb Raider (Square Enix)
31. Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (Warner Bros.)
32. The Crew (Ubisoft)
33. Disney Infinity 3.0 (Disney)
34. Need For Speed (EA)
35. Terraria (505 Games)
36. Assassin’s Creed Unity (Ubisoft)
37. WWE 2K15 (Take-Two)
38. Lego Marvel Super Heroes (Warner Bros.)
39. Call Of Duty: Ghosts (Activision Blizzard)
40. Evolve (Take-Two)
41. Disney Infinity 2.0 (Disney)
42. Watch Dogs (Ubisoft)
43. Project CARS (Bandai Namco)
44. Forza Horizon 2 (Microsoft)
45. Mad Max (Warner Bros.)
46. The Last Of Us Remastered (PS4)
47. Halo: The Master Chief Collection (Microsoft)
48. Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo)
49. Gears Of War: Ultimate Edition (Microsoft)
50. Skylanders SuperChargers (Activision Blizzard)

How many of these games do you own? And are you surprised to see any of these games on the UK’s top selling games of 2015 list? Share your thoughts with me in the comment section down below!

Chris Petticrew
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @Mr_Luvva_Luvva