UK: Xbox Series X|S Hit 2 Million in 128 Weeks, £696M Revenue
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In UK since launch it sold less than PS4.
Switch sales slower in the UK than other markets; ahead of Xbox One for 2017, behind PS4
Switch is doing well in almost every part of the world. But according to GamesIndustry publisher and former MCV editor Christopher Dring, sales are slower in the UK compared to other markets. Dring did add that Switch sales this year are currently ahead of the Xbox One. The system is “well...
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I don't think the situation really changed... Switch records sales are due outside UK.
You can see that in France for example where TotK sold 500k physical units at launch while in UK it was less than 200k physical units.
Remember only in November 2022 Switch finally beat Xbox One sales in UK... that is not something to grab about... it is behind PS3 (at least Chris never said anything about passing PS3 this year yet).
UK is probably one of the few places PS5 tracks way ahead Switch.
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What huge turn around for the Xbox division, from the disaster that was the Xbox One to selling faster than the Nintendo Switch. 
Yes, like all the consoles.
They all have low yearly sales the first year and the yearly sales keep growing until they peak around typically the 3rd or 4th year, and from there their yearly sales keep decreasing until the console get discontinued. Sometimes the curve is longer or taller, or has the peak sooner, or later, but basically all consoles have this pattern.
In UK it is still slow... lifetime sales are over Xbox One and below PS3... let's not talk about others consoles.
I will let this here:
- Nintendo DS: over 12m
- PlayStation 2: over 10m
- Xbox 360: 8.9m
- Wii: 8.5m
- PlayStation 4: 7.6m
- PlayStation: 7.2m
- Game Boy: 6.6m
- PlayStation 3: 6.1m
- Nintendo Switch: > 5.7m
- Xbox One: 5.7m
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I think it can be very comparable with others places.
Switch success is due places outside UK... the sales in UK were always in the low end with no record breaking numbers like happened outside.
It was not just launch... after 6 years it is still trying to surpass PS3.
360, PS4 and PS5 paces in UK are way faster in UK than Switch... that is odd when you look at others countries where Switch really have some top tier numbers.
It is something specific to UK I believe... even in US Switch sales are way better relatively.
Fucking lol. Slower than the PS1, Sony's first foray, and almost as slow as the original Xbox.
Pos Platform Release Year Launch Price Weeks to 2M Revenue at 2M 1 Nintendo Wii 2006 £180 56 £358m 2 PS2 2000 £299 60 £469m 3 PS4 2013 £375 75 £700m 4 PS5 2020 £425 98 £919m 4 PS3 2007 £420 98 £638m 5 Xbox One 2013 £450 104 £726m 6 Xbox 360 2005 £254 110 £507m 7 PlayStation 1 1995 £299 114 £179m 8 Xbox Series S and X 2020 £386 128 £696m 9 Nintnedo Switch 2017 £285 140 £279m 10 Xbox 2001 £295 162 £280m
Xbox Series S and X hit 2m sales in the UK, 12 weeks faster than Nintendo Switch
Microsoft hit two million sales of Xbox Series S and X after 128 weekswww.gamesindustry.biz
And somehow Series also generated less revenue at 2 million than the XBO.
People should really let that sink in.
Didn't Nintendo sort of think that it may be a flop and they used the Tegra SoCs from nvidia because they got the remaining stocks for a relatively good price?... so at some point they had to restart production of this chip just for the console?
Not sure where I got this idea, but it was not clear at all that the Switch was going to be a success at first.
Idk I just remember reading articles about how it was hard to find and never seeing one in store until I randomly was able to get one at target before the holidays, iirc I picked up one of the two on display