UK Hardware Chart! Wii U outsold by Vita in UK in 2013!!!

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Conegamer on 13 January 2014

Yeah, looking at what VGC said this really isn't very surprising. Still not good though.

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Roma on 13 January 2014

so 360 beat PS4 does that mean supply constraint?

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Yakuzaice on 13 January 2014

These numbers are tough to reconcile with VGC numbers since VGC likely has errors going back to 2012.

For example, VGC has 2012 at 3.818m. Up 5% would be 4.009m. That would leave around 900k hardware unaccounted for in 2013. Considering PS4/XBO were said to be around a third of the market and those only sold 894k, I doubt the total is over 4m.

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mos713 on 13 January 2014

360 DID outsell the ps4, Chris is an author from MCV article.

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forest-spirit on 13 January 2014

Hurrah, 3DS went up YOY, barely!
That Vita drop is quite spectacular, but I guess it's not that unexpected considering how much Sony seems to care about the platform.

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pezus said:
Uhm, we had news a few days ago that PS4 was the top selling home console in the UK.

It was a mistake. PS4 beat 360 in revenue but not in units sold.

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Galaki on 13 January 2014

mos713 said:

LOL. Eurogamer doesn't let off a chance going at WiiU.

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kowenicki said:
Vita down 41% and WiiU down 42% is horrific for so early in their lives. They are both dead now in the UK.

Only Vita was down, Wii U went up 42%.

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kowenicki said:

pezus said:

Huh, where are you getting the 2012 360 number from? And PS3 for that matter. It could just be that they're both overtracked in 2012.

Not if you know anything about shipments.

the ps3 is already negative supply according to VGC...

But in any event, the numbers I quote will be pretty accurate as we Knowles approximate sales. a higher percentage of a higher initial figure means a much higher undertrack, obviously.

Nope, 2012 is definitely overtracked, by over a million consoles.

Look at what the article says. PS4 and X1 make up 1/3 of all console sales and console sales overall are up 5% in 2013. The same group said that the PS4 and X1 sold about 530k and 360k respectively in the UK in 2013, so all console sales are at about 2700k in the UK, which is 5% higher than last year, so last year sales were at about 2570k. Vgchartz has 2012 at 3800k and 2013 at 3200k.