The Xbox One has reached sales figures of 150,000 since launching this past Friday, with stock hard to find on the shelves. This figure is over double the launch figures for the Xbox 360, which was released eight years ago. That just goes to show how gaming keeps growing as an industry.
Another interesting figure is that these figures means that the Xbox One’s current sales figure is only a few thousand away from the Wii U’s total sales in the UK. A few days more and the Xbox One could be outselling the Wii U, with the PS4 Â likely to do the same.
However Nintendo aren’t giving up the fight in the run up to Christmas with The Legend Of Zelda: Wind Waker HD releasing last month, and Super Mario 3D World releasing on the 29th, the same time as the PS4. Whether that will help increase sales of the Wii U remains to be seen.
Source: MCV
bunimomike
150,000 over the launch weekend? (is that right?) Lovely stuff. Also, it gives us a bit more of an idea with regards to proportions of the million sold in the first day. I reckon the US had around 550,000 or so but it’d be great to find out accurate numbers.
I’m also interested in how frequently stores are being replenished with stock (from both Sony and Microsoft) over any given week. Once a week? Once a day? Something in between?
JR.
When people say consoles are dead, the industry’s in trouble and smartphones are the future of gaming… are they just talking out their arse?
blarty
Yes. Yes they are.
bunimomike
Pretty much. They didn’t realise there was room for all concerned. Only last month I was reading about the industry being worth around $42 billion and that figure is set to grown to a massive $52 billion next year!
Starman
Shows you how much the so called experts know. I remember the bbc doing a really negative report when the ps4 was announced, saying people prefer to play things like angry birds on their phones nowadays rather than console gaming.
bunimomike
I hate seeing bias and the last few years has taught me that there is a genuinely biased writer or two over at the BBC. Nearly every article has something that puts whatever Sony’s doing in a slightly more negative light and, conversely, whatever Microsoft’s doing in a more positive one. It’s often subtle but it’s always there. :-\
It’s horrible to see as I’d like to think the BBC could be a bastion of fairness and without favouritism.
hol
Certainly noticeable on Click the last few weeks, their ‘gaming’ journo Mark Cizlac (?) certainly seems to prefer the Xbox over Playstation. Or that’s how he came across anyway.
stonyk
I did notice a few articles that attempted to look unbiased but definitely favoured xbone. Including one from a reputable (sic) journal like telegraph or guardian stating Xbone advantage was its gaming output of 4K while PS4 can’t output games at 4K.
Is this correct? I thought they both couldn’t for games but both could for Films. My next tv in a few years may possibly be 4K compatible and it may swing me further down the line.
JR.
I’ve noticed this too and it’s a shame. It’s also incredibly annoying. MS gets an easier ride that’s for sure. If Sony had done everything MS has done over the last few months, they would have been torn to shreds. Competition is good but blind favouritism is bad for everyone.
Starman
Yeah, too many journalists these days want to tell you their own opinion rather than just the facts and letting you decide.
Phizzy
I went to a lecture from a guy pushing cloud technology for mobile free to play app development. He was constantly saying things like consoles are dead, ‘there will be no high budget games released within two years’, just obviously ridiculous false statements. He based this on a spurious pie chart.
Kovacs
There are enough fans of these new consoles to give them big week one bumps. I’m not trying to be negative but we have to wait and see down the line before we start saying console gaming is alive and well/dead.
TSBonyman
Not bad at all, certainly a good start, will be interesting to see how PS4 compares.
jimmy-google
Big improvement on the 360 but a bit surprised they failed to set a new UK record. I think the PSP and PS3 (maybe the PS2 as well but it had massive stock shortages) all broke 165k in their opening weekend. But this also highlights that big launch numbers don’t guarantee long term sales.
NOSAJ19
To be honest, I laughed when I read the quote “With stock hard to find on the shelves”! I went into my local Game store on Friday morning as I wanted to ask about the chances of the PS4 being in-stock on launch day only to be told three times during any questions that I asked about the PS4 stock availability on launch day, before Christmas and bundles, “We have Xbox Ones in stock”.
Aran Suddi
It’s different around the country. Round my way no stores have the One in stock, saying only pre-orders for Christmas are available.
Tarbun84
A lot of Game stores are saying they still have XBox One’s in stock. When asking about PS4 availability they said to me “maybe March?”. The sales stats for the first week of PS4will be very interesting.
The Von Braun
Good result for MS in UK, but seems to be worrying reports of ‘noticable judder’ when people plugging in Sky boxes etc, games running at 60 Hz, TV at 50 Hz on older sets or something? (technical side lost on me), software fix would make things worse.
Media building yet another mountain out of a molehill or another PR disaster in the waiting for Ms over here?.
Either way, i’m pleased to see there is plenty of life left in console gaming, i’ve tried the PC gaming route (years back) and it has key advantages (power, flexibilty etc), but i’m in no hurry to return to it.