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Forums - Sales Discussion - More consoles were sold in the UK in 2018 vs 2017. PS4 #1

derpysquirtle64 on 02 January 2019
Nate4Drake said:
Congrats to Sony. UK was 360 land, and I was expecting something more from MS. X1 is a very good console, there's something I don't get. I think right now it deserves better sales !

Doesn't matter how good X1 is right now. There is nothing MS can do to change the sales trend which was set in 2013.



 

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chakkra on 02 January 2019
Intrinsic said:

Info at the link Gameindustrybiz#mce_temp_url#

 

  • PS4 #1 best selling console in UK in 2018 and up YOY from 2017
  • NS biggest mover up 20% YOY (though this should be expected being that it tracked fr at least 2 more months in 2018)
  • Physical sales down by ~3% YOY. Digital sales not tracked. 

 

A new article just popped up saying that the PS4 was actually flat yoy.

And btw, they also posted the 20 best selling games of 2018.  I was gonna create a thread about it but I have no idea how to work with graphs over here. So if anyone wants to create it, it would be appreciated it.



Intrinsic on 02 January 2019
chakkra said:
Intrinsic said:

Info at the link Gameindustrybiz#mce_temp_url#

 

  • PS4 #1 best selling console in UK in 2018 and up YOY from 2017
  • NS biggest mover up 20% YOY (though this should be expected being that it tracked fr at least 2 more months in 2018)
  • Physical sales down by ~3% YOY. Digital sales not tracked. 

 

A new article just popped up saying that the PS4 was actually flat yoy.

And btw, they also posted the 20 best selling games of 2018.  I was gonna create a thread about it but I have no idea how to work with graphs over here. So if anyone wants to create it, it would be appreciated it.

This doesn't surprise me being that they gave a number for how much the NS was up but didnt give one for the PS4. But being flat YOY isnt a bad thing either when its being compared to the consoles peak year.



zorg1000 on 02 January 2019
chakkra said:
Intrinsic said:

Info at the link Gameindustrybiz#mce_temp_url#

 

  • PS4 #1 best selling console in UK in 2018 and up YOY from 2017
  • NS biggest mover up 20% YOY (though this should be expected being that it tracked fr at least 2 more months in 2018)
  • Physical sales down by ~3% YOY. Digital sales not tracked. 

 

A new article just popped up saying that the PS4 was actually flat yoy.

And btw, they also posted the 20 best selling games of 2018.  I was gonna create a thread about it but I have no idea how to work with graphs over here. So if anyone wants to create it, it would be appreciated it.

Do you have a link?



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zorg1000 on 02 January 2019
Intrinsic said:
chakkra said:

A new article just popped up saying that the PS4 was actually flat yoy.

And btw, they also posted the 20 best selling games of 2018.  I was gonna create a thread about it but I have no idea how to work with graphs over here. So if anyone wants to create it, it would be appreciated it.

This doesn't surprise me being that they gave a number for how much the NS was up but didnt give one for the PS4. But being flat YOY isnt a bad thing either when its being compared to the consoles peak year.

Ya being flat is a great result. It looks like US+Japan+UK are roughly flat YoY (give or take a few %).



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chakkra on 02 January 2019
zorg1000 said:
chakkra said:

A new article just popped up saying that the PS4 was actually flat yoy.

And btw, they also posted the 20 best selling games of 2018.  I was gonna create a thread about it but I have no idea how to work with graphs over here. So if anyone wants to create it, it would be appreciated it.

Do you have a link?

Here

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-01-02-uk-video-games-market-is-now-80-percent-digital



zorg1000 on 02 January 2019
chakkra said:
zorg1000 said:

Do you have a link?

Here

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-01-02-uk-video-games-market-is-now-80-percent-digital

Thank you!



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Kerotan on 03 January 2019
Miyamotoo said:
Intrinsic said:

Info at the link Gameindustrybiz#mce_temp_url#

 

  • PS4 #1 best selling console in UK in 2018 and up YOY from 2017
  • NS biggest mover up 20% YOY (though this should be expected being that it tracked fr at least 2 more months in 2018)
  • Physical sales down by ~3% YOY. Digital sales not tracked. 

 

On other hand, Switch had launch in March 2017. and launch always gave huge sales in any case, and January and February of this year shouldnt be strong in any case. So March of last year should easily be stronger than this years January and February.

 

colafitte said:
I have the feeling PS4 is going to be undertracked this year worlwide (have this ever happened to a Playstation before???? ), because if in USA, JP and UK PS4 is similar to last year numbers, how PS4 is going to sell 2-3m less in the rest of the world?

PS4 in US and Japan is down YoY.

On other hand it wasn't severely supply constrained this year. 

 

Anyway this is a big victory for the ps4. I had some arguments over on VizionEck with people who were panicking after BF sales in the UK. Sony despite much worse deals are up YOY in the UK. They were right not to cut the price permanently this year. They would have thrown away profits and created an unnecessary shortage. 



Kerotan on 03 January 2019

Wasn't it widely predicted that Sony stuffed the channels big time in 2017 to hit the 20m goal. So for all we know they could be up in 2018 in terms of actual sales.



Evilms on 03 January 2019

UK 2018 :

1. FIFA 19 : 1.889.401
2. Red Dead Redemption II : 1.757.212
3. Call of Duty Black Ops 4 : 1.172.855
4. Spider-Man : 676.621
5. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe : 458.675
6. Far Cry 5 : 434.133
7. Crash Bandicoot Trilogy : 430.551
8. God Of War : 399.395
9. Forza Horizon 4 : 392.960
10. FIFA 18 : 351.788
11. GTA V : 339.805
12. Spyro Reignited Trilogy : 333.725
13. Battlefield V : 313.100
14. Assassin's Creed Odyssey : 305.937
15. Super Smash Bros Ultimate : 284.155
16. Super Mario Odyssey : 240.710
17. Call of Duty WWII : 230.576
18. Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu : 227.767
19. Shadow of the Tomb Raider : 226.125
20. Fallout 76 : 218.534