GribbleGrunger on 10 September 2014
According to Sony UK Managing Director Fergal Gara, yesterday's release of Bungie's new sci-fi shared-world shooter, Destiny, has pushed the PlayStation 4's UK sales over the million unit mark.
Gara told Digital Spy that hardware sales for the PlayStation 4 had slowed down marginally in the two weeks leading up to the launch of Destiny, but once the game landed, sales of the Glacier White PlayStation 4 Destiny Bundle pushed the console over the edge.
It's literally as the pre-order volume gets shipped and more picked up in the early hours of this morning," he told Digital Spy. "It's that volume - that's quite a chunk - that's what takes us over the line.
"I'm talking several percentages of cooling - but a little bit of hold back in terms of the sell-through in the last two weeks - for obvious reasons. The Destiny bundle is a great package at a great price, but you can't have it until midnight. But what are you going to do? You're going to wait, aren't you!"
Gara made a point of noting that the figure related to units sold through to consumers, and not what was shipped to retailers.
"It's quite coincidental - in many senses, we couldn't have planned it better," he said. "We announced PS4, and Bungie and Activision announced Destiny, on the same stage on the same night, February 22 last year - and you roll forward to this week and we break records together, as Destiny is on track to be biggest new IP launch of all time, and PS4 pushes through the million mark in record time. It's almost like we planned it this way."
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