Wii U beats PS4 and Xbox One to fastest selling UK console ever crown!

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...Just kidding. Sorry Wii U fans but PS4 outsold Wii U's lifetime UK sales. :( If it makes you feel better, Wind Waker HD is the most beautiful game ever! It might not have hydro-glycerine mapping but still manages to make most games look horrid.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ps4-beats-xbox-one-to-fastest-selling-uk-console-ever-crown/0125168

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 18th respectively.
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Dear Nintendo,

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Sincerely,
Everyone.

Edit: MCV is posting the news as it comes in.
PS4 has sold over 250k in the UK.
 
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A years head start and already 3rd. Its the Dreamcast just without the awesome games.
 
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To be fair, while Super Mario 3D World looks good, it didn't look as good or unique as a Galaxy or Sunshine. It really should've been the game Nintendo launched with in my opinion. At this point, I'm just guessing that something like Bayonetta 2 is not gonna turn things around for Nintendo. More and more, the market is simply choosing to not play on a Nintendo console. If I were Nintendo, I'd try to reel in indy devs and release quality but low budget games to help keep the console profitable while planning for the next nintendo console, when that ever happens.
 
Wii U has been stuck at 150k all year in the UK. Yes its that bad for Nintendo here.

Both MS and Sony will over take them over Christmas worldwide.

Unless you want the over priced store bundles both are more or less a sell out here in England. Never happened with the U.
 
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I think this Holiday season could end up being disastrous for the Wii U. Could be its last IMO.
 
Poor Wii U, and now that it got its greatest game sow far.
At least both Xbox One and Ps4 seems to be doing very well.
 
What does Nintendo do going forward? Should be an interesting next 5 years for that company.
 
Drop the price of the Wii U, while keeping the bundled Mario/Luigi games, and I'll buy one.
 
They should drop the tablet and just make it an optional thing to develop for. Just go with the pro controller. At the very least, it'll make manufacturing costs cheaper.
 
XBoxNeo said:
It is like I always though. Sony is withdrawing its efforts from North America and shifting their supply to Europe, conceding defeat in that market.
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Where does it say Sony is doing that in the article?
 
I bought my daughter a wii u for christmas.....is it sad that I want her to open it so I can play it.
 
Ketto said:
It doesn't, it's just b166r with his usual delusions.
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What is the delusion??? The PS4 isn't getting any traction in the US, so they are shifting inventory to the UK where they do have some traction.
 
Oh that was cold Ketto, liked. :D

I still like my Wii U.

XBoxNeo said:
What is the delusion??? The PS4 isn't getting any traction in the US, so they are shifting inventory to the UK where they do have some traction.
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Proof?
 
A7MAD said:
Oh that was cold Ketto, liked. :D

I still like my Wii U.



Proof?
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Well the fact that this report exits is proof enough. Sony got trounced in the US over the weekend, like badly, like 2:1 and 3:1 ratios, so Sony announces their UK sales to try and shift focus away from their crushing defeat in US Black Friday sales...

Or are we pretending that locked threads don't count now???
 
XBoxNeo said:
Well the fact that this report exits is proof enough. Sony got trounced in the US over the weekend, like badly, like 2:1 and 3:1 ratios, so Sony announces their UK sales to try and shift focus away from their crushing defeat in US Black Friday sales...
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I didn't ask for your interpretation, asked for proof. Do you have any?
 
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