Price cut fails to push Xbox 360 past PS3 in UK


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Microsoft this week claimed to have more doubled the Xbox 360?s European sales thanks to its recent price cut, but that still hasn?t been sufficient to put it ahead of the PlayStation 3 or the Wii in the UK.

The software giant made the bold sales claim yesterday, a month after the price cut came into effect. On 14 March, up to ?50 was knocked off the price of each version of the console, taking the cheapest, most basic model down to ?160.

However, a Sony spokesman today hit back at the company's arch rival, telling Register Hardware that the PS3 has outsold the Microsoft console every week for the last 15 weeks.

"Even this [price cut] hasn't been enough to put them ahead of UK PS3 sales," he said.

But Chart Track?s confirmed to us that Xbox 360 UK sales did double in weeks 12, 13, 14 and 15, when compared to weeks 8, 9, 10 and 11.

UK console sales monitor Chart Track confirmed that for the past 15 weeks the PS3 has largely kept ahead of the Xbox 360. However, a spokesman admitted that the two machines' units have been "extremely close" in some weeks.

The real winner is Nintendo. Chart Track said that sales of the Wii have been ?more than double? those of the PS3 over the last 15 weeks.

And the Wii would still be ?healthily? ahead of PS3 and Xbox 360 if those two machines' UK sales were combined, the spokesman said.

Source: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/18/xb...n_sales_double/

Riding the wave of GT5P I guess!

Interesting to see how the UK looks after the launch of GTA4.

Is Ninja Gaiden 2 out before MGS4? Or is MGS4 the next big title to hit the UK? I actually think Haze comes before MGS4, but it's a bit of a loose canon - Will either scrape along, or do quite well...

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Nice to see Nintendo kicking some butt again, although i prefer the PS3 and x360 to wii :)

UK isn't a massive market base though compared to the rest of Europe and the US. (Although we get ripped off so much it doesn't matter)

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Nice to see Nintendo kicking some butt again, although i prefer the PS3 and x360 to wii :)

UK isn't a massive market base though compared to the rest of Europe and the US. (Although we get ripped off so much it doesn't matter)

I actually thought UK was 3rd to America/Japan?

We might be a small landmass on the map, but we spend a BOATLOAD of money on games/electronics :p

UK Europe?s leading video game marketb> : http://www.euromonitor.com/UK_Europes_lead...deo_game_market

[quotUK is the third largest market for video games in the Worldb>

At more than ?2 billion in 2003, the market for video games in the UK is the largest in Europe and the third largest in the world, after USA and Japan. As well as buying more video games than any other country in Europe, the creative excellence of the UK?s software houses also means that the UK makes more video games than any other country in Europe.

From 2004, but I doubt much has changed since then&:happy:appy:

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I actually thought UK was 3rd to America/Japan?

We might be a small landmass on the map, but we spend a BOATLOAD of money on games/electronics :p

UK Europe?s leading video game marketb> : http://www.euromonitor.com/UK_Europes_lead...deo_game_market

From 2004, but I doubt much has changed since then!:happy:y:

Is that just because we get ripped off so much:p:p I don't buy anything, it's against my ethics to get ripped off due to the crappy English prices (I hate this country due to that, need to move to Canada or the USA:shiftyninja:a:

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move to canada moose :p

The PS3 is picking up tons of steam though, I bought one a couple months ago and I'm enjoying it, although it still has a lack of quality games imo

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Reverse everything, and you have North America.

"Price cut fails to push PS3 past XBox 360 in US"

*shrug*

That's the 360's home turf!

Bet you if you break down the PS2's 120-130 millions sales, it will go either

Japan

Europe

USA

or

Europe

Japan

USA

I'll be happy to be proven wrong though :p (couldn't find broken down figures myself)

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That's the 360's home turf!

Bet you if you break down the PS2's 120-130 millions sales, it will go either

Japan

Europe

USA

or

Europe

Japan

USA

I'll be happy to be proven wrong though :p (couldn't find broken down figures myself)

I know its the end of 2006, but according to these numbers, it goes

USA - 45 million +

Europe - 40 million (with UK having an install base of 8 million)

Japan - 25 million

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=11633

Would be interesting to see the current numbers though, but really, I can't see the tide turning that much. Maybe the sales in europe would have could up with the USA sales, but certainly the Japanese sales wouldn't have.

As for the actual topic - if its very close between the two, does it really matter? Looking at Burnout and the like, its seems that PS3 to 360 ports are the way to go anyway (rather than 360 to PS3 ports). And its obvious the wii is going to be the PS2 of this gen (in terms of sales). So does a small different in the sales between the two consoles really mean that much to us?

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I never understand these things, is it just me that thinks it's obvious the PS3 sells more? It's like people going "yeah but the 360 has sold more units overall". No **** Sherlock.

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