Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled has debuted at number one in the UK (boxed-only) sales chart, having launched for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Switch on 21 June. And it's done so with impressive numbers, too - the remake of 1999's PlayStation classic is the third-highest launch of any new game in 2019.
Nitro Fueled - which brings Naughty Dog's original game up to speed for modern systems, courtesy of the team at Activision subsidiary studio Bennox - is only behind Resident Evil 2 (another remake) and Days Gone in terms of the year-so-far's biggest week-one sales. And, reports Gamesindustry.biz, it achieved the top spot on the sales chart podium by a considerable margin, outselling the second-placed FIFA 19 eight to one.
The complete multi-platform UK top ten for the week ending 22 June looks like this:
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1. Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
2. FIFA 19
3. Forza Horizon 4
4. Days Gone
5. Red Dead Redemption II
6. Battlefield V
7. Grand Theft Auto V
8. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
9. Tom Clancy's The Division 2
10. Anthem
A strong showing from Anthem, propping up the top ten despite all of its troubles. And Forza Horizon 4 seems to be going strong - you wonder just how much of an impact the Lego Speed Champions DLC has had, there. And in other news: who is still buying Grand Theft Auto V? Hasn't that been out for longer than some of its players have been alive for? (Sadly, probably.)
Nitro Fueled, for those of you somehow new to everything Crash Bandicoot (and spin-off) related, is of course a high-def remake of 1999's Crash Team Racing. The wider Crash cast-starring original felt pretty unique at the time for having a story mode - the evil boss in the game, an alien called Nitrous Oxide, is the declared fastest racer in the galaxy, and he wants to turn the world of Crash into a massive parking space. The only way to save it? For Crash and his buddies to beat Oxide at his own game.
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A racing game, with a plot? Yep, and it worked brilliantly - Crash Team Racing received brilliant review scores, and sold 1.9 million copies in the US alone (and the series as a whole is now up to some 40 million units sold, worldwide).
Reviews for Nitro Fueled have been pretty great, too. The game earned a perfect score on Gamesradar+, who claimed that it "was always superior to Mario Kart", while IGN's reviewer called it "the most exhilarating kart racer I've played". Bold claims, there.
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