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ShogunDarius · May 5, 2015

All data is courtesy of retail sales tracker GfK Chart-Track, and is based on their estimates for the total UK market.

Reaching the milestone of two million PlayStation 4 consoles in the UK in less than 18 months is an achievement we are very proud of, PlayStations UK boss Fergal Gara told MCV.

To be the best selling 'next generation' console in Britain - installing faster even than the PlayStation 2 - is testament to an amazing and constantly improving product, the hard work of our trade partners and the team at PlayStation UK, and most importantly, the passion of the players. I would like to thank every one involved in helping us achieve this landmark."

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ps4-reaches-2m-sales-in-the-uk/0148966

Miles Quaritch · May 5, 2015

Wow, fantastic news.

Beating the PS2 is perhaps the most impressive news.

DieH@rd · May 5, 2015

Miles Quaritch said:
Beating the PS2 is perhaps the most impressive news.

Skeff · May 5, 2015

How long ago did we get the combined sales of 3m for next gen?

Santiako · May 5, 2015

Yeah, mostly everyone I know bought one (and most of them only use it to play FIFA lol)

Conduit · May 5, 2015

Awesome, awesome news. Let's calculate split-ratio.

crinale · May 5, 2015

Outpacing ps2? Good.

Nightengale · May 5, 2015

Skeff said:
How long ago did we get the combined sales of 3m for next gen?

End of March.

slavesnyder · May 5, 2015

Lots of milestones and sales news for the PS4 coming in recently (Portugal, Germany, China, now UK).
Is this a coincidence or planned action?
Congratulations nevertheless. This is impressive.

Neuromancer · May 5, 2015

People in the UK have good taste in video game consoles. Does Chart Track have any totals for the other next gen systems?

ZhugeEX · May 5, 2015

Nightengale said:
End of March.

Nope. As of January 24th 2015 the combined userbase in the UK was 3.3m.

PS4 is over 2 million as of last week.

Kosma · May 5, 2015

Skeff said:
How long ago did we get the combined sales of 3m for next gen?

That would mean that PS4 is close to 2:1 with Xbox One + Wii U combined no?

ZhugeEX said:
Nope. As of January 24th 2015 the combined userbase in the UK was 3.3m.

PS4 is over 2 million as of last week.

1.5:1 then?

BKK · May 5, 2015

Nearly 3.5 million end of feb.

1st Course · May 5, 2015

slavesnyder said:
Lots of milestones and sales news for the PS4 coming in recently (Portugal, Germany, China, now UK).
Is this a coincidence or planned action?
Congratulations nevertheless. This is impressive.

Companies likes to brag about sales when they are good.

Nightengale · May 5, 2015

ZhugeEX said:
Nope. As of January 24th 2015 the combined userbase in the UK was 3.3m.

PS4 is over 2 million as of last week.

Not doubting, but link? I tried googling 3.3 million and 3 million UK console but couldn't find that former before I responded with my March statement.

gtj1092 · May 5, 2015

Sold the 2nd million faster than the first. Surprising. Article also confirms Ps4 is the top selling console for 2015 so far. Hopefully the nebulous we're not sure which is selling the most argument in PAL threads can end for a few weeks.

John Bender · May 5, 2015

God bless the king:

Chobel · May 5, 2015

MCVUK said:
Worldwide, PS4 has now sold through 22.3m consoles.

What a joke. That was sold in number.

ZhugeEX · May 5, 2015

Nightengale said:
Not doubting, but link? I tried googling 3.3 million and 3 million UK console but couldn't find that former before I responded with my March statement.

http://www.gamedigitalplc.com/~/med...15/half-year-results-presentation-2014-15.PDF

Scroll down a bit. Its in there somewhere.

biglittleps · May 5, 2015

Deserved. I expect XB1 to be around 1.4 - 1.5m.

Spookie · May 5, 2015

It was only last September they were lauding they hit 1 million (at EGX anyway). So they've managed another million in 6 months? That's a lot of consoles.

Nightengale · May 5, 2015

Chobel said:
What a joke. That was sold in number.

Most games journalist/reporters have no place talking about quarterly financials, in general.

ZhugeEX said:
http://www.gamedigitalplc.com/~/med...15/half-year-results-presentation-2014-15.PDF

Scroll down a bit. Its in there somewhere.

Thanks!

ZhugeEX · May 5, 2015

UK LTD

PS1- 7.20m
PS2- 10.01m
PS3- 5.80m
PS4- 2.00m

Mpl90 · May 5, 2015

Spookie said:
It was only last September they were lauding they hit 1 million (at EGX anyway). So they've managed another million in 6 months? That's a lot of consoles.

Those 6 monhts include Holidays. And the past Holidays had insane deals for both next gen consoles (yeah, PS4 too, not just One).

EDIT: Still, great result for Sony indeed.

EGM1966 · May 5, 2015

So probably still 1.5 to 1 in UK? Looks like the odd spike and dip aside that ratio's holding true over time in UK.

Wabba · May 5, 2015

Chobel said:
What a joke. That was sold in number.

Everybody knows that the PS4 dont stay in the shelf.

John Bender · May 5, 2015

DieH@rd said:

Seraphiel · May 5, 2015

Good job for all concerned.

For all those on a low salt diet, this thread might become a place to avoid based o. How the others have gone the past week or so.

gtj1092 · May 5, 2015

Mpl90 said:
Those 6 monhts include Holidays. And the past Holidays had insane deals for both next gen consoles (yeah, PS4 too, not just One).

Pretty sure launch included the holidays. But thank you had no idea there were deals on consoles during this past holiday. Unprecedented.

Chobel · May 5, 2015

EGM1966 said:
So probably still 1.5 to 1 in UK? Looks like the odd spike and dip aside that ratio's holding true over time in UK.

No, because the combined userbase of PS4 and XB1 was nearly 3.5 million at end of Feb.
It should be around 1.2 to 1.

Psycho_Mantis · May 5, 2015

I'm guessing 1.6 million for XB1.

Sjefen · May 5, 2015

Pretty amazing seeing the PS4 break record after record every time they release sales numbers.

Jamix012 · May 5, 2015

Chobel said:
No, because the combined userbase of PS4 and XB1 was nearly 3.5 million at end of Feb.
It should be around 1.2 to 1.

There's a couple 100,000 Wii U's out there too, mind you I'd imagine.

Kaze2212 · May 5, 2015

Chobel said:
No, because the combined userbase of PS4 and XB1 was nearly 3.5 million at end of Feb.
It should be around 1.2 to 1.

PS4 + XBOX ONE or PS4 + XBOX ONE + WII U?

Mpl90 · May 5, 2015

Do we have an idea about when Wii/PS3/360 reached two millions? If my math is correct, for example, 3DS reached it after more or less 33 months.

Carl · May 5, 2015

Very impressive, nice job Playstation

Chobel · May 5, 2015

Jamix012 said:
There's a couple 100,000 Wii U's out there too, mind you I'd imagine.

Kaze2212 said:
PS4 + XBOX ONE or PS4 + XBOX ONE + WII U?

Just PS4+XB1, I got it from here

The figures are disappointing, particularly in the face of a rapidly rising install base for Xbox One and PS4. Combined, the two platforms have sold almost 3.5m units in the UK so far.

Kaze2212 · May 5, 2015

Chobel said:
Just PS4+XB1, I got it from here

Okay, cool thanks. So it's still pretty close over there.

Marvel · May 5, 2015

Majmun · May 5, 2015

Sony's success with the Ps4 has been really great so far. The Ps4 is just unstoppable.

An official pricedrop is going to slaughter competition even further.

dolemite · May 5, 2015

Psycho_Mantis said:
I'm guessing 1.6 million for XB1.

sounds about right.

d9b · May 5, 2015

So is UK officially Sonyland too now?

Anyways, congrats SONY.

Chocolate & Vanilla · May 5, 2015

XB1 must be under 1.7m then?

The PS4 has outsold it over holiday period and in 2015 and last official ratio we got was when PS4 hit 1M? And XB1 was ~700k? So that would suggest that although the ratio has shrunk the numerical gap has not and has in fact increased no?

NuclearSpy · May 5, 2015

Marvel said:

oh my lord, my sides hurt

dead monkey uk · May 5, 2015

d9b said:
So is UK officially Sonyland too now?

Anyways, congrats SONY.

Think that is pushing it, MS are still strong in the UK. There can not be many markets (if any) in the world where MS are as close to Sony with sales.

But I can see Sony lead growing in the UK, especially if they have a price cut.

EGM1966 · May 5, 2015

Chobel said:
No, because the combined userbase of PS4 and XB1 was nearly 3.5 million at end of Feb.
It should be around 1.2 to 1.

Ah thought those figured came out end of March. So 2 million to PS4 and > 1.5 million for XB1.

Average weekly sales for PS4 must be approx 26.6k I guess if 2 million in 75 weeks. XB1 should be lower than that given lower overall sales.

So around 1.65 million (approx) for XB1 vs 2 million for PS4?

So 1.2 to 1.25 ratio. Not bad for XB1 and marry in general. PS4 still comfortable though with MS having to really work at keeping close.

Going to be an interesting Holiday in UK for deals I suspect. Rest of Europe will easily give PS4 a big lead in PAL territory of course.

Seems it's all about US and UK for MS right now with XB1 in terms of individual regions.

panda-zebra · May 5, 2015

Ratio is somewhere around 4:3 ps4:xbone.

1.7m for xbone seems like an overestimate if combined total was under 3.5m 10 weeks ago.

EDIT: 1.6m would be safer bet.

Stilton Disco · May 5, 2015

I'm amazed that the general idiocy of my people hasn't swung things in the XO's favour now they've slashed their prices so heavily (not a dig at the Xbox, more the fickle nature of the British public, and their preference for low prices over any other consideration).

Speaks volumes for just how badly MS fluffed the launch, and how much hype the PS4 has generated.

Occam · May 5, 2015

d9b said:
So is UK officially Sonyland too now?

Anyways, congrats SONY.

The world is officially Sonyworld now.

wapplew · May 5, 2015

This mean Xbox one are very close to PS2 level, very impressive.

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