New console data from Europe’s biggest gaming market, the UK, has revealed that Microsoft’s Xbox Series X|S changed units faster than the Nintendo Switch. The consoles of the Xbox series achieved two million sales in 128 weeks. The Nintendo Switch took 140 weeks to reach two million sales in the UK. The Wii remains the fastest selling video game console in the UK.
The fastest selling consoles up to 2 m (GfK data)
pos | Platform | Year of publication | Launch price | Week up to 2m | Income for 2 months |
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1 | Nintendo Wii | in 2006 | £180 | 57 | 358 million pounds |
2 | PS2 | in the year 2000 | £299 | 60 | 469 million pounds |
3 | PS4 | in 2013 | 375 pounds | 75 | 700 million pounds |
4 | PS5 | in 2020 | 425 pounds | 98 | 919 million pounds |
5 | Xbox One | in 2013 | 450 pounds | 104 | 726 million pounds |
6 | Xbox 360 | in 2005 | £254 | 110 | 507 million pounds |
7 | PlayStation 1 | in 1995 | £299 | 114 | 179 million pounds |
8 | Xbox Series S and X | in 2020 | 386 pounds | 128 | 285 million pounds |
9 | Nintendo Switch | in 2017 | 285 pounds | 140 | 279 million pounds |
10 | Xbox | in 2002 | 295 pounds | 162 | 280 million pounds |