VGC: PS5 is biggest console launch ever in UK

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Evilms on 30 November 2020

PlayStation 5 has broken the record for the UK’s biggest ever console launch, VGC understands.

➡️ https://t.co/LDrUE3RBAf pic.twitter.com/saX84WjOLG
— VGC (@VGC_News) November 30, 2020

PS5 : 280~300K ?

PS4 : 250K
PSP : 185K
PS3 : 165K
Xbox Series X+S : 155K
Xbox One : 150K
3Ds : 113K
Wii : 105K
Ds : 85K
Switch : 80K
Xbox 360 : 70K
Wii U : 40K

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sources-ps5-was-the-uks-biggest-ever-console-launch/

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Ryotsu on 30 November 2020

Maybe 400k ?

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Intrinsic on 30 November 2020

Inb4 50-100k of those sales were thanks to scalpers so in truth the PS5 could actually have sold less than the PS3.

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KLXVER on 30 November 2020

50-100k of those sales were thanks to sca...

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Inb4 50-100k of those sales were thanks to scalpers so in truth the PS5 could actually have sold less than the PS3.

DAMN IT!!!

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COKTOE on 30 November 2020

I'm wondering how bad Covid is gonna f*** everything up for the PS5 numbers going forward, and to a lesser extent, the XBSX.

I just saw this on N4G:
https://n4g.com/news/2389221/coronavirus-shipping-of-playstation-5-on-pause

There's a youtube video in the link. It's funny, as soon as it started playing, I recognized the anchorwoman, and Channel 9 News logo from the video my hero Jim Sterling made eviscerating them titled "Grand Theft Adelaide". Thought I would post it in spite of that. The demand for the system is clear. The amount of news coverage on customer interest, and it's scarcity, that I've happened upon by accident is on a level I haven't seen in a while. Hell, even pop-culturally. Real Time With Bill Maher, Tosh.0, and Last Week Tonight all name dropped the PS5 in jokes since it launched. Even anecdotally, the 3 times I was at EB games saw multiple enquires on availability on each visit. I'm posting this, I guess, because, although sarcastically, the scalping thing came up again.

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