Story by Patrick Garratt

Thu, Jul 02, 2009 | 10:17 BST

UK has bought over 24 million consoles this gen

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The British public has bought 24.2 million hardware units this generation, according to data from GfK Chart-Track.

The platform break-down is as follows:

NDS – 9.1m
Wii – 5.4m
Xbox 360 – 3.9m
PSP – 3.3m
PlayStation 3 – 2.2m
DSi – 0.3m

Thanks, GI.

16 comments

Blerk
02/07/09, 10:02 am

Do we know what the cut-off date for these figures is? 0.3m for the DSi seems pretty low, which suggests they’re from just after the DSi launched.

Hey, Psycho! Have you still got the last bunch of figures for comparison?

Johnny Cullen
02/07/09, 10:04 am

Wow.

Difference between 360 and PS3 is lower then I thought would be.

Rock_Me_Amadeus
02/07/09, 10:06 am

As of June 27, 2009

Psychotext
02/07/09, 10:08 am

Sure Blerk, let me dig them up.

Blerk
02/07/09, 10:12 am

Actually, the gi.biz article has all kinds of interesting stuff. The gap between the PS3 and 360 might not be as wide as you thought, Johnny, but it increased rather significantly in the last year.

Psychotext
02/07/09, 10:13 am

Last figures:

September 2008 – UK LTD
NDS – 7.1m
Wii – 3.6m
PSP – 2.9m
360 – 2.3m
PS3 – 1.4m

So since those figures…
NDS – 2.3m (Inc DSI)
Wii – 1.8m
360 – 1.6m
PS3 – 0.8m
PSP – 0.4m

Interesting (someone check my math… my brain doesn’t work this early in the day).

Blerk
02/07/09, 10:17 am

Seems right to me. Have a Jaffa Cake!

Psychotext
02/07/09, 10:20 am

Delicious. So yeah, based on the figures for the year ending September 2008 it would seem that Wii demand has dropped a bit and 360 demand has picked up a bit.

Psychotext
02/07/09, 10:27 am

I’ve just found the numbers up to the end of 2008. I forgot we had them:

LTD as of 03/01/2009
DS – 8.8m
Wii – 4.9m
360 – 3.2m
PSP – 3.2m
PS3 – 1.9m

Which gives us the sales for the last 6 months…
360 – 0.7m
NDS – 0.6m (Inc DSI)
Wii – 0.5m
PS3 – 0.3m
PSP – 0.1m

That can’t be right, can it?

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Psychotext
02/07/09, 10:45 am

Hey Blerk, have a look at those numbers too will ya? You can have your Jaffa cake back for it.

They just don’t seem right.

#11

Blerk
02/07/09, 10:48 am

No, that looks right. And is fairly surprising.

I’d love to know which flavour of 360 is selling best in the UK. Is it the cheap-as-chips Arcade that’s driving it, or are most people buying the Pro?

#12

odessa
02/07/09, 11:16 am

Nice work Psycho

Blerk – Sir Pachter has said before that the average sale price of the 360 in the US is around the same as a Pro.

Bit of a guess, but I would imagine a similar pattern in the UK – The amount of Elites sold just about balances out the number of Arcades sold.

#13

deftangel
02/07/09, 12:16 pm

I can only put the rapid acceleration of the 360 down to the cheaper arcade unit. There were plenty of reports of the last price cut significantly turning things around in Europe and they were doing pretty well here as it was.

#14

Psychotext
02/07/09, 12:43 pm

Odd that MS hasn’t put out some PR over this. I think the numbers are a bit suspect.

#15

Psychotext
02/07/09, 8:50 pm

On the subject… Game / Chart Track say that the 360 has outsold the Wii 2:1 since February in the UK. The PS3 has matched the Wii’s sales in the same period.