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One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:36 am
by Venom
PlayStation 4 has now sold One Million units in the UK.
Which means that these little British Isles have bought (roughly) 10% of all the units made. What with the huge customer base, media outlets and software studios it's no wonder the manufacturers attach such importance to the UK.

The machine reached the figure after 42 weeks. Wii managed the same feat in 38 weeks. By comparison, PS2 hit 1m in 50 weeks and Xbox 360 took 60 weeks to hit that target. PS3 was quite quick to 1m, selling to that number by week 46. And UK MD Fergal Gara has told MCV that many of the customers that have picked up PS4 have come over from Xbox.

"We have certainly seen PS3 consumers come across quite hard and fast," he said. "But a very significant proportion are people we have never seen on our network before. And from their behaviour and the types of games they are playing, it’s fairly clear that a big chunk of those have come across from Xbox, which is tremendous to see. And there’s a chunk that look like they’re brand new to gaming. And they’ve picked PS4 as their first serious gaming device."

He added: "I would really like to thank all of our retail partners who have backed us so far. The work they have put in and the execution through the launch was exceptional, and without which we would not have got off the ground. We continue to work very well together and our plans for this Christmas are coming together quite nicely."


http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ps4-hits-1m-uk-sales/0138062

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:42 am
by Venom
Metro is reporting that the Xbox One has sold 1.2 million... in Europe.
"The Xbox One has sold only around 1.2 million consoles in the whole of Europe, compared to around 3.8 million for the PlayStation 4."

http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/09/ps4-sales-pass-1-million-in-uk-4861598/

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:45 am
by gamerforever
Fantastic News and well deserved imo. :mrgreen:

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:48 am
by Christopher
Meanwhile NickSCFC is still without a PS4.

But was seen at work today responding to the news....
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Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:51 am
by Photek
:lol:

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:52 am
by Poser
:lol:

I bet he has got a mullet.

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:56 am
by Gario
Wii U is on about 300K in the UK and it's been out a year longer...

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:58 am
by Christopher
[iup=3560103]Gario[/iup] wrote:Wii U is on about 300K in the UK and it's been out a year longer...


Think how much lower that would be without Jawafour.

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:01 am
by Gario
[iup=3560104]suzzopher[/iup] wrote:
[iup=3560103]Gario[/iup] wrote:Wii U is on about 300K in the UK and it's been out a year longer...


Think how much lower that would be without Jawafour.



I heard Jawafour bought 10,000 copies of the underwhelming Wii U platformer Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures and handed them out to some of the UK's neediest children.

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:01 am
by Schumi
Make that 1 million and 1 after this morning's visit to ShopTo.net. :datass:

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:05 am
by Poser
[iup=3560108]Gario[/iup] wrote:
[iup=3560104]suzzopher[/iup] wrote:
[iup=3560103]Gario[/iup] wrote:Wii U is on about 300K in the UK and it's been out a year longer...


Think how much lower that would be without Jawafour.



I heard Jawafour bought 10,000 copies of the underwhelming Wii U platformer Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures and handed them out to some of the UK's neediest children.


In the first ever case of needy children refusing charitable donations?

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:25 am
by D_C
Shame Sony aren't putting as much into the development of the system software compared to Microsoft, from what I've seen anyway.

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:29 am
by Buffalo
D_C wrote:Shame Sony aren't putting as much into the development of the system software compared to Microsoft, from what I've seen anyway.


In my opinion, tweaking and changing the One UI was absolutely necessary as a matter of urgency, it's a state in comparison to the PS4.

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 12:52 pm
by Qikz
It's good that a system is selling well, but they kinda need to release some software for it as well. It seems like it's been ages since the "last big" PS4 release.

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 12:53 pm
by Christopher
[iup=3560184]Qikz[/iup] wrote:It's good that a system is selling well, but they kinda need to release some software for it as well. It seems like it's been ages since the "last big" PS4 release.


It's only been 12hours.

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 12:56 pm
by Qikz
[iup=3560186]suzzopher[/iup] wrote:
[iup=3560184]Qikz[/iup] wrote:It's good that a system is selling well, but they kinda need to release some software for it as well. It seems like it's been ages since the "last big" PS4 release.


It's only been 12hours.


It's multiformat and the multiplayer will be dead within about a month. Waaay too overhyped. I mean that Sony's internal studios need to release something.

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 12:57 pm
by Poser
[iup=3560184]Qikz[/iup] wrote:It's good that a system is selling well, but they kinda need to release some software for it as well. It seems like it's been ages since the "last big" PS4 release.


It's well known that Destiny is basically the start of a run of really quite decent titles that will take us through to next summer.

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 1:00 pm
by degoose
[iup=3560191]Qikz[/iup] wrote:
[iup=3560186]suzzopher[/iup] wrote:
[iup=3560184]Qikz[/iup] wrote:It's good that a system is selling well, but they kinda need to release some software for it as well. It seems like it's been ages since the "last big" PS4 release.


It's only been 12hours.


It's multiformat and the multiplayer will be dead within about a month. Waaay too overhyped. I mean that Sony's internal studios need to release something.

so in dead you mean literally nobody playing it. Would you like a bet on that.

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 1:04 pm
by gamerforever
Sony consoles have always been slow burners - you guys should know that better than anyone.

We will get better exclusives next year and even more in 2016, but the superior multiplatform versions will also win the day too.

Re: One Million PlayStation 4s have been sold in the UK

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 1:09 pm
by Floex
[iup=3560191]Qikz[/iup] wrote:
[iup=3560186]suzzopher[/iup] wrote:
[iup=3560184]Qikz[/iup] wrote:It's good that a system is selling well, but they kinda need to release some software for it as well. It seems like it's been ages since the "last big" PS4 release.


It's only been 12hours.


It's multiformat and the multiplayer will be dead within about a month. Waaay too overhyped. I mean that Sony's internal studios need to release something.


:lol: :lol: