UK: Star Wars Battlefront has record launch, Fallout 4 sales drop 80%

Fallout 4 sales tumble as Battlefront has best Star Wars launch to date.

Star Wars Battlefront had the best ever launch for a Star Wars game in the UK to date.

It's the fourth highest launch of the year, and outsold the previous best-selling Star Wars game – The Force Unleashed – by 117 percent in its first week.

Sales on the PS4 were higher in its first week than sales of Destiny on the same system, according to Chart-Track.

Last week's number 1, Fallout 4, saw sales drop a massive 80 percent and it now sits behind Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 in the charts.

Square Enix' Rise of the Tomb Raider saw sales fall 37 percent, putting it a number 5.

The full UK top 10 follows:

01 – Star Wars Battlefront
02 – Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
03 – Fallout 4
04 – FIFA 16
05 – Rise of the Tomb Raider
06 – Lego Dimensions
07 – Assassin's Creed Syndicate
08 – Minecraft: Story Mode
09 – WWE 2K16
10 – Need for Speed