PS4 beats Xbox One to fastest selling UK console ever crown
by Ben Parfitt Monday, December 2nd 2013 at 9:05AM GMT
Sony’s PS4 is officially the fastest selling console in UK history.
Gfk Chart-Track has confirmed that the machine has beaten PSP’s eight year-old sales record of 180k units sold in its first week. Xbox One sold 150k units in its first week.
(Note that in both instances ‘week’ refers to Chart-Track’s sales week, which ends Saturdays – so most console’s ‘week one’ sales actually spans 48 hours).
The exact number of PS4s sold in the UK was not revealed, although MCV understands that the figure is not just higher than PSP’s 180k, but significantly so.
The highest charting PS4 exclusive is Sony’s Killzone Shadow Fall at No.4 followed by Knack in 13th.
Platform fans note that Sony’s critically slammed effort beats Nintendo’s critically adulated Super Mario 3D Land into 14th, suggesting the Japanese struggles of Nintendo’s game could be repeated on this side of the globe – although you’d of course expect the Wii U game to have better legs.
There’s a slight shuffle at the top of the Top 40 with Call of Duty: Ghosts seemingly benefitting most from the PS4’s arrival, climbing one place to No.1 at the expense of FIFA 14 which drops to No.3. Battlefield 4 holds firm at No.3.
Of EA’s football game Chart-Track notes: “After being heavily boosted by the Xbox One Day 1 Edition bundles last week, FIFA 14 has to settle for second place in the All Formats Chart despite strong sales on PS4.”
Xbox One exclusives Forza 5 and Dead Rising 3 drop out of the Top Ten to 15th and 18threspectively.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ps4-beats-xbox-one-to-fastest-selling-uk-console-ever-crown/0125168
PS4 has sold over 250k PS4s in the UK
by Ben Parfitt Monday, December 2nd 2013 at 9:58AM GMT
Over 250k PS4 consoles were sold in the UK in the machine’s first 48 hours on sale.
Retail sources have confirmed the extent of PS4’s tremendous performance to MCV following Chart-Track’s confirmation this morning that PS4 is the UK’s fastest selling console ever.
MCV estimates that UK PS4 sales reached approximately £87m during this period.
Xbox One sold in the region of 150k units in its first 48 hours on sale.
This means that the current-gen trio (which until recently referred to as ‘next-gen’) already enjoys an install base of around 600k units in the UK. Both PS4 and Xbox have already comfortably outsold Nintendo’s Wii U, which was released in the UK over a year ago.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ps4-has-sold-over-250k-ps4s-in-the-uk/0125169
King Back
Is it safe to say the free FIFA 14 with Xbox1 preorders & day 1 editions in Europe was a failure?Like I said last week in this thread: (http://www.thecoli.com/threads/euro...in-uk-launch-struggle-numbers-overall.167211/) Xbox1 did struggle numbers last week. Both the PSP & PS3 each both outsold the Xbox1 in their opening weekends.
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over a 2day span when a console with few games launched. And the main reason being that the wii-u has sold less systems lifetime than PS4/XB1 did in 48hrs in that region. All nintendo game sales are low because not many ppl bought wii-u's.
