Last week Total War: Rome 2 reached the No.2 spot in the UK retail charts, selling 32,000 units and missing the top spot by 200 copies. Trade mag MCV have discovered that bringing digital sales into the equation makes a massive difference, though. More than twice the amount of physical copies were sold digitally; 73,000 in total.

With 105,000 copies sold, that puts Rome 2 as not only the biggest game of the week, but also one of the largest release weeks for a single-format game, putting it up there with the likes of the PS3’s The Last of Us.

“It’s an incredible number and the biggest, most significant number we’ve seen,” said John Clark, Sega’s digital Vice President.

According to SteamGraph, backed up by Steam’s own stats page, Rome 2′s concurrent players topped out at over 118,000 on its first day.

UK individual formats chart – 7 September

1 (-) Total War: Rome II (PC)
2 (1) Saints Row IV (360)
3 (-) Diablo III (360)
4 (-) Diablo III (PS3)
5 (2) Saints Row IV (PS3)
6 (5) Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (360)
7 (3) Splinter Cell: Blacklist (360)
8 (-) Killzone: Mercenary (PSV)
9 (9) Payday 2 (360)
10(6) Splinter Cell: Blacklist (PS3)

Total War: Rome II (PC) debuted at the top of the charts with sales of 169,494. The game launched in North America and Europe.