UK Hardware and Software weekly ending June 14th

PS4 edges out Xbox1 and watchdogs ps4 stays at number one.

PS4 9,277
XOne 8,430
WiiU 5,485
3DS 4,391
X360 3,667
PS3 3,204
PSV 933
Wii 191
PSP 68

[XiSasukeUchiha]

PS4 is still leading all over the world even after the price cut lol

[NextLevel]

It's hilarious people actually thought the Xbox One was going to outsell the PS4.

[Malphite]

I wouldn't call it hilarious. It's not like it would've taken much more for XOne to outsell the PS4 this week especially in the US (according to vgchartz).

[NextLevel]

I'm more surprised it was as close as it was, both UK and US.

[Darkstares]

What's really hilarious to the point of disturbing are the people who create new accounts solely for the purpose of trying to annoy a certain fanbase.

The truth is after all the negativity the X1 got since it's debut and high price who actually thought it would outsell the PS4? What is interesting however is how much has changed since that time with the direction the X1 has taken. But what hasn't changed over that period and is unlikely to change are those who go on forums to be as negative as possible.

[Eonjay]

Actually I kinda did. See, we are on forums with militant fans, but in the real world people are buying what they want. At least there is more parity between sales now. Lets see if this lasts.

[amiga-man]

VGA chartz numbers should always be taken with a huge pinch of salt, who knows what the numbers really are but VGA chartz is the last place I would be looking.

[SniperControl]

Don't we also have to take into account that vgchartz are known to overtrack X1 numbers and under-track PS4 numbers?

Holy crap, on a global level PS4 sold 110,000 why the X1 managed just 38,000,(PS3 actually sold morewith 47,000[week ending 7th June])

[bouzebbal]

wait until Titanfall comes out
==> PS4 still leads

wait until kinectless
==> PS4 still leads

looking forward to what's next from xbox fanboys.

[Sincere0121]

It's hilarious how much sado's care about sales of a console. Your not receiving any profits made from any console.

Smh fanboys need to get a life.

[system22]

What's hilarious is the price drop has only been available to purchase since the 9th of june and these numbers are week ending the 14th. sales are almost at parity in that time. Let's see how this plays out with a full month.

[Mr Pumblechook]

These VGChartz figures are BS guesses. I know someone who works in the largest GAME store in London. He said when the new SKU was announced there was a high amount of pre-orders but not enough to be a see-change and tracking for his store has Xbone selling 50% of PS4 and this is with the price cut.

[aceitman]

and in Europe there is no contest ps4 is more than doubled the x1 with x1 selling 15,000

[XiYakushijuAkeginuXi]

Seriously? Why the hell isn't VGChartz banned already?

[XiYakushijuAkeginuXi]

@ above

grow up

[MRMagoo123]

@the_infectard

If you actually looked at comments on these articles you would see it is mostly sony fans trying to ban the site , I know I always down vote the site everytime they put one up and so do most of the sensible sony fans, so dont try to pretend its only here because MS cant beat Sony. Yet if the xbone was ahead we would still say ban this site and I guess you would say its because we want to hide the fact the ps4 is losing right.

[Eonjay]

Have you contemplated the possibility that N4G and VGChartzs are partners. Or do you think the N4G widget at the bottom of the page is there by accident.

[SilentNegotiator]

Because this is the closest that we get to getting sales numbers, especially WW numbers, on a frequent basis. It's far from perfect, but until NPD reports accurate WW figures or someone else comes along with more accurate, frequent numbers, this is all we've got.

[Gunstar75]

What price cut? They released a new sku. This isn't a price cut.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

not in Japan

[CaptainObvious878]

Remember it's vgcharts, so take it with a healthy amount of salt.

But we do know vg likes to over track ms consoles and under track sony console and this week in light of the price drop would have been a perfect opportunity to skew the numbers.

If the PS4 is still winning according to vgcharts then that's very interesting indeed.

[shinrock]

Why do they over track MS, and under track ps? I keep seeing this comment but no1 elaborates.

[corvusmd]

Uh, these numbers don't add up at all, both consoles sold more copies of just Watch Dogs than these numbers posted here. Considering the gap in consoles sold, the numbers of game sold is tiny. This is of course all rumor though being as it's VGChartz

Side note: why does anyone get joy out of the idea of a console failing? That doesn't sound like something a gamer would say. Although I do love how we are constantly reminded that these numbers are rumors and wrong....until it lets someone talk trash.

@Aceitman...you do realize that X1 is in less European countries right? Not saying that that would double X1 sales, but still you're right it's no contest...because it's not a fair comparison.

[aceitman]

so what can be said about usa.

[XiYakushijuAkeginuXi]

@corvusmd

Which is why this site needs to be banned. I am tired of looking at false data from them. WTH is even the point of looking at their data when they are always inaccurate. I could probably "guess" my own numbers and sometimes have a better prediction than VGChartz.

[Nitrowolf2]

", both consoles sold more copies of just Watch Dogs than these numbers posted here"

Uh dude, you think everybody who bought a PS4/Xbox One this week went out to buy Watch Dogs as well? These numbers don't add-up TO YOU because you are relating the two separate sales figure as if they should be near identical, when there are also existing owners buying the game

[jnemesh]

Why? Because Microsoft is bad for gamers. They released a BAD CONSOLE with a FLAWED "vision", and are now furiously trying to backtrack...but they still have an underpowered, overpriced console! Buying exclusive titles, insulting and LYING to their customers, polarizing fans....Microsoft is about as good for gamers as the Kinect is for playing games.

[Chevalier]

@CorvusMD

You seriously think less European countries is MS problem? Europe has always been dominated by PlayStation. 2/3 of sales last gen were from U.K. and U.S. alone. The rest of the world only accounted for 1/3 of their sales.

http://arstechnica.com/gami...

Also last gen their were only U.S., U.K. and Australia where MS beat PlayStation sales. They're losing all these currently. In fact they're losing in every country. So yeah if they can't win a single country then how will they catch up by increasing countries? They're just going to lose those countries as well.

[Axios2]

TitanFall still in the top ten after all this time

and less than 10% difference in sales now that the price is the same

[dantesparda]

Oh look its Axios STILL talking about TF's sales. Obsessed much? And you do know that this is just a sales spike for the X1's new price, and will only go down from here right?

And p.s. this is VGC, oh you know the site with the made up numbers that's constantly proved wrong by NPD. Have fun with that.

[gamer1138]

Overall sales data is useless because people can exchange their consoles and buy used consoles which aren't tracked here. It's units sold, not units actively in use.

I'm from the UK and people have been switching between the two consoles like crazy. I personally know well over a dozen people who have traded their X1 for a PS4 or the other way around. GAME, the uk's specialist retailer, has been selling used xbox ones for £299. At that price they sell like crazy but aren't reported here. Places like CEX, a 2nd hand electronics shop, their stores are sat on loads of traded in PS4's because they bought them at a high price and now do not want to sell them at a loss.

Worse still, others have been going out buying used xbox 360's because they don't want to play their PS4's that they got for christmas! I honestly could not believe it when I hard people talking about this but it is happening!

[Cupid_Viper_3]

@Gamer1138

"GAME, the uk's specialist retailer, has been selling used xbox ones for £299. At that price they sell like crazy but aren't reported here."

If you bought an XBox One, and sold that same XBox One to your friend, that doesn't mean that 2 consoles were sold. It's just the SAME XBox One exchanging hands.

So there is no reason why used XBox Ones/PS4s should be accounted for. It's the same argument people had with the RROD and the XBox 360s, but inversed. Where multiple XBox 360s were being sold to the same number of consumers, hence why many believe that the install base for the 360 is very inflated.

Put it this way, if Toyota sold a single person 10 cars, and Honda sells 10 people one car each, more people have bought Hondas than Toyotas.

On Topic: Enjoy these made up numbers from VG Chartz in the meantime.

And while we're at it, people need to remember that these (fake) numbers represents a SPIKE for XBox One. So things, can only get worse from this point on.

[kanedaakira]

Agreed!

[bluzone]

@gamer1138 Of course it's not tracked. It's not adding any new consoles to the count. It's just moving them to new owners. They are used at that point.

[Goku781]

The power of Playstation compels the world despite Xbox One price drop bundle and advertisements everywhere. It will not be denied!

[N4g_null]

Come on the power? Really? This is not a sport.

[True_Samurai]

Knowing VG they probably undertracked the x1 sales

[poor_cus_of_games]

@true You spelt over tracked wrong.

[SoulSercher620]

The denial is real :)

[pornflakes]

In German you get a PS4 with 1 game in every Saturn (Launch game you can choose) for 419 Euro so this offer is really good.

[medziarz]

Yet another DA-DA-DA-DA-DAAAAMINATION.

[Jury]

Vg charts huh? Cool story bro, needs more dragons though

[Whitey2k]

Not bad at all both uk and us beat x1 by atleast a 1000 units

[LeCreuset]

Yeah. What a coincidence. And somehow the site that nearly doubled Xbox sales, over-tracking them by about 100,000, is now capable of calculating the gap to be less than 850 in not only the US but the UK as well.

[AllAboutGaming]

I'm going to start VideogameNumberz.com and post all sorts of awesome made up sales figures.

[QuickdrawMcgraw]

In other news for MS and the Xbox1...It has been reported you can now hear crickets when logging on to the next big thing...Titanfall...I really wish the Xbox1 was doing better...

[donnieboy]

Not bad.

[MsmackyM]

I've never owned a Xbox console, but I would love for Xbox to take a sales lead so fanboys can STFU. I thought being a fan of a particular console meant you liked the games said console provided.

[Spotie]

It means different things to different people. And rather than brings fan of a particular console, some people may just not be a fan of a given console or company.

There aren't these simple little categories you can put people in for why they do or don't like something.

[Clarence]

It seems that the Xbone price cut didn't make that much of an impact.

[D-riders]

Xbox after changes = a weak ps4
I'll give it two weeks and numbers will be back to normal.

[jnemesh]

I don't know about everyone else here...but I really don't have loyalty to any one company. I go with whoever is making the best product. This generation, that's Sony.

I also will reject marketing BS and PR spin from a company trying to hide their weaknesses, and who try to convince the uneducated that their product is "superior" when it clearly is not. I reject being told to #DEALWITHIT. I reject the very idea of my game console taking over my living room. And I reject the idea that my gaming life isn't complete without an NSA friendly camera scanning my room and it's occupants at all times!

I went with BOTH an Xbox 360 (first) and a PS3 last generation. I didn't have loyalty to either company. THIS generation, it's different. One company is making good hardware and one isn't, but acting like it is....and with the VAST majority of titles announced so far being multiplatform, it's an easy choice to go with Sony's PS4. It's not about being a "fanboy", it's about being an intelligent consumer.

[shinrock]

So im stupid because of my system choice? Thx!

[sadfeet]

you said it not jnemesh