PS4 and Xbox One overtake Wii U lifetime sales in the UK
The PlayStation 4 launched last weekend, you may have heard of it. It’s become the fast selling console in UK history.
It’s also outsold the Wii U sales in the UK lifetime to date. In one weekend Nintendo’s ‘lead’ in the country has been reduced to nothing as not only did the PS4 outsell the Wii U, but the Xbox One as well.
To make things worse, Knack – a charming looking but hasn’t been well received game outsold Super Mario 3D World. Knack was 13th on the charts, Mario 14th. One thing we can take solace in, Knack was bundled with PS4 consoles so a lot of people would have had no choice to buy the game as well.
Nintendo will have to continue to work hard with the Wii U in the UK, just like the rest of Europe. Any advantage Nintendo had launching a year early is gone.
I knew this would happen with the PS4 since the preorders sold out, but I was hoping the Xbox One would have a shitty launch 🙁
The silly thing is that we never see ads for the Wii U, ever, but while the PS4 is unavailable until January, I’ve still seen several ads for it!
*cough* Price drop like US *cough*
Combining playstation and xbox together in the Wii U’s weakest market, nice cherry picking, lol. Its like being on neogaf, dunno why you even report such bias crap.
LOL, thats not combined. PS4 outsold WiiU. XBO outsold WiiU. hardly bias, this is just the facts that WiiU got destroyed in the UK and Nintendo need to step up there game
Its also our market!! If retailer lose hope in it, they won’t stock it, if they won’t stock it 3rd parties will/may cut back on releases. Or be per order only much like the game cube era. Which will mean full price games.
not to mention Mario sale figures in Japan. Nintendo need a good kick in the pants .
casual market is gone it is not there with this Gen. They all have their $1and $2 apps on there phone, they don’t care about mascots or high profile IPs
I see the PS4 as PS2 the second, 2×2=4.
Its still cherry picking.
I like how the UK has become a relevant market all of a sudden, when it is completely irrelevant to worldwide trends and sales totals. Its just the best market to cherry pick the worst Wii U stats. Didn’t hear about the UK market at all when the Xbox 360 was selling triple the ps3, year after year.
Classic sonygaf.
Could you be any more delusional, why would a Nintendo fan site report Xbox 360 outselling PS3.
good to know that the UK is irrelevant, seriously the 3rd biggest market is irrelevant are you fucking with me. You would have to be delusional to think that
As if I speak about one site in particular, I was talking about gaming news in general.
No the UK is not the ‘third biggest’ market, not even close. Europe =/= UK, Might wanna check your facts, mate. The entire life time sales in the UK can be surpassed in a single month from the US.
Another classic sonygaf tactic, single out the UK from the rest of Europe when traditionally the European market was look at as a whole.
Before Europe was treated as whole because Sony got slaughtered in the UK alone, now they can pick better ‘bad’ Nintendo numbers in the UK so its treated a individual market.
Sorry I am more astute to the subtle bias and cherry picking that is used by infamous sony run viral marketing and black pr forums used to swing perception on the internet.