They're buying the game with their bread. It can't be explained otherwise for an eight-years old game.

It's the same in the US, for example, and also on Steam.

The fact we're in the middle of a console launch yet no next gen games are in the top ten baffles me. You'd think they would be buying anything to play on their new machines, yet it's the same as every other week...

There were less than 1000 units between Series S/X and PS5. People will buy more next gen games when stock is higher again and will happen on the week ending January 23rd.

The same effect happened in the UK, once retailers received more PS5 units Games like Demon’s Souls remake and miles Morales (PS5 Version) saw a big increase in sales. 

And that's another question. What has happened to Sony/MS to mismanage their production this badly? I get there are problems to launch hardware globally this days, but if you're only going to sell a couple of hundred copies in some of the product's biggest markets, why even bother launching? Hell, if they were so low on consoles, why launch the system in all countries at once, instead of piecemeal?

And people will still claim the launch of the PS5/XBox X is a success...

Yeah, in light of the pandemic and the ensuing production troubles, both Microsoft and Sony should really have delayed the launch of their consoles by a couple months to make sure they'd have enough to not get absolutely crushed by demand.

According to this week's software chart if you took out FIFA, GTA and Assassin's Creed, then everyone would be buying Switch games.

They should have done a March release launch like the Switch. The holidays wouldnt matter since it will be all sold out anyway.

And couldn't be both? I mean, we won't really know until they are finally able to manufacture enough units.

But look at it this way, if they had delayed until March they probably would have had 7-8 million units stockpiled, which would have sold in one month, but the thing is that they will probably sell that amount of units by that date anyway; and they are selling software in the meantime, I mean, just look at Microsoft's quarter report, Xbox Content and Services revenue this quarter was higher than total Xbox Gaming revenue in the same quarter last year.

Besides, given how messed up the distribution channels are at this moment, I don't think they would have been able to ship more than 4 million units in one month anyway.