GFK Chart-Track has revealed that the Xbox 360 was this generations best-selling console in the United Kingdom. The Xbox 360 is expected to overtake the Wii in a matter of days. GFK says that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is regularly outselling all its rivals, and has now shifted 8.4m consoles in the UK. However, the PlayStation 2 remains the best-selling console of all-time.
“This is an historic milestone and our sincere thanks goes to each and every person that has bought and enjoyed Xbox 360 over the past eight years.”
– Director of Xbox and entertainment Harvey Eagle
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Perhaps it has something to do with Wii U already being out and XB1 not?
Wrong. It has to do with the fact that the Wii was pretty much already dead before the Wii U launched. The novelty had faded. The Wii was pretty much getting no games the last 2 years of it’s cycle.
No, it was nothing to do with that. It was to do with the fact that people bought a Wii and a 360 because they were relatively cheap, yet about 10-15% of 360 purchases have been to replace a broken system, and the prolonged popularity of the 360 allowed it to gradually catch up to the Wii.
Wow. In a time when Microsofts approval rating is plummeting like a planet whose wings were just torn off, my country manages to demonstrate, once again, it’s uncanny ability to do absolutely fucking everything backwards.
lol!!! WTF UK? Everyone has preferences, but how can that piece of crap rrod machine be their best console??? wow. Shocking. I need to move to Japan.
Nintenward, we need your soldiers in the battlefield now!
This is no big deal. It’s taken them 8 fucking years to do what the Wii did in 5….. big whoop!
Not really… Congrats to Microcock I say. Enjoy your shallow victory in just one section of Europe. Japan 12 Million Wiis , 1 million 360’s , lol.
not to mention the fact that this is not really relevant anymore seeing as the Wii U came out… which means the Wii officially won the 7th gen in terms of sales.
Yep. The Wii raped the competition in its own lifetime (which was a typical 6 years) the PS3 and 360 have dragged it out into the 7-8th year…
It won the second our Empire won non gamers over to our side for all eternity…
Not to mention that the Wii was far less powerful than the other two consoles, and still won. It makes me feel good inside.
We must have full Nintendomination!
Lol, I bet some one from Micro is saying “fuck yes!”. While I’m picking my nose to this comment.
UK has bad taste
What , and America doesn’t ? the place where the Xbox was created and has sold over 40 million units ? lol…. America is responsible for most of the atrocities to come out of gaming cough Cowa doody cough Xbox cough…..
The Wii , PS3 and 360 have all sold around 6-7 million each in the UK. So a level playing field regarding taste.
Hey don’t mix Canada into this. By America I take it you meant USA. Cause most Canadians like Nintendo.
All in all the UK and USA are extremely similar countries. I’ve been to USA numerous times and it’s a slightly more commercialized version of the UK with a different accent… that is all.
Potato, Potatoe…
I’m fed up with both countries already in almost every way except some people…
The greatest creation by the UK, Stephen Hawking!
By US…
Microsoft…
Stephen Hawking is American lol.
No, he was born in, Oxford England…
So he is brittish, otherwise I wouldn’t state that…
best things to have come from the U.S: the internet, baseball, Rock and Roll, barbeques, Apple Inc, Ford, Wikipedia, Google, Broadway, Mark Twain, Delivery Pizza, Youtube, M&M’s, Facebook, Thanksgiving, Pickup Trucks, The Simpsons, Oprah Winfrey, MRI Machine, Jazzy, S’mores, Trader Joe’s, Scrabble, “Ice Cream”, Oreos, Disney, Warner Bros, eBay, blue jeans, steakhouses, roller coasters, HBO, Chewing Gum, Light Bulb, Religious Freedom, Chipotle, NY Times Square New Years Eve, Elvis, Netflix, Escalators, Stand Up Comedy, Charlie Brown. There are many more, but obviously I can’t lost them all… 💋
I wouldn’t brag about atleast half of those things that are either just good for americans or plain evil…
I dont find any of the things I mentioned “evil.” Some are huge breakthroughs in technology, some are very famous and rich people, others are simply little “goodies” that the world has come to know and love. Also, notice I didn’t say “Microsoft” ;) 💋
Almost all of these “breakthroughs” are now secretely used by the US goverment and probably have been for years to spy on its own people and the world…
I do agree that many are goodies though, Simpsons is one of the best things from the US…
Lol, I’m an American and I hate my country. Full of imbeciles, and of the like. I don’t understand people who say “my country is better than yours”. It’s retarded, it’s like saying “my earth is better than your earth”. Us humans are pretty fucked.
the us is a fucked up, falling apart place. its not that its the greatest country by much anymore, its getting pretty hard to live here more with all the shit going around.
It never was the greatest country and no country has ever been the greatest in terms of the good for humanity…
The only thing that makes people believe the US was the greatest is because of their own misguided weak minds that they are totally abandoned to the brainwashing…
Trader Joe’s all the way
when did i say the US had good taste
RRoDeath
only reason why 360 sales went up
Yeah since the new models haven’t had a single case of rrod in 3 years. Good point
And England is noticeably older looking, people drive on the left in England instead of the right, there is the accent difference, also, meals in the U.S are far superier in terms of service, food portions, free refills on soft drinks, however, it is more expensive with a 15% tip. toilets work better in the U.S, there are no “4-way stops” in England like there are in the U.S, in school children have time to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in the U.S but there is no “pledge” in England, also no school bus service in England, showers are also noticeably better in U.S than England, there are more tolls in the U.S, the U.S has no Queen, but we have a President and England has a Prime Minister. There are many, MANY small differences like these that make each country VERY different from each other. 💋
Please don’t brag about Fast Food, it’s more disgusting than you know.
best invention you mentioned was the internet.
but where on earth did you get the idea the internet “comes from the U.S”
a British guy invented the internet..
Most of what you said is completely faulse ,’ U.S are far superier in terms of service, food portions, free refills on soft drinks” Nope. In England you can get all the fast food , Mcdonals , KFC , Pizza hut , Dominos , Burger king , Subway and MUCH MUCH more. So they’re equal in that respect. America definitely has larger meal sizes on average though….
England has a lot more posh and high quality food outlets than America does.
Toilets work better in the US ? lol no…. There’s no difference except US toilets are designed to be able to flush football sized turds! lol!!!
Showers are not better in US , they’re exactly the same. I have an oscillating power shower… standard.
England does look older or more distinguished :P
Overall the 2 countries are extremely similar.
Haha well like half of all xboxes break anyway haha … I suppose about the same percent of woos have barely been touched though…
I don’t think this really matters anymore. The Wii U is the focus now.
Just saying, a million of those are likely to be replacements of consoles which RRODed…
LOL! I was about to post the same thing! The Xbox 360, even 2013, still bricks a lot. I’d estimate that 25-35% of all 360’s sold there are out of commission. Not to mention the Wii actually won a poll there as best console ever!
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/03/uk_gamers_rate_wii_as_best_ever_console
You can disagree with them but don’t be idiots.
how is that a “historic milestone”? who the hell cares? Oo
Ugh, this makes me want to move from the UK, too many XBOX gamers.
So who in UK had to buy 3 or 4 360s? That’s the biggest reason.
the 8th gen started 8 months ago
it actually started 2 years ago with the 3DS
Handhelds and home consoles are usually divided into separate generations.
Just because the vita is no more in competition, Sony fans say handhelds are counted in different generations. No the 3DS is this generations beast deal with it.
That is one of the most ridiculous arguments I have seen in some time. Thanks.
Though the 3DS is going along the 8th generation, it is separated into its own division (handhelds) and so this would be the 6th generation of our Empire’s handhelds…
1. Game & Watch
2. Game Boy
3. Game Boy Colour
4. Game Boy Advance
5. Nintendo DS
6. Nintendo 3DS
even if it was the case: who the hell cares about something like that?
Yeah, well the Wii is still number one world wide. 💋
How many years did it take lol. Irrelevant news!
UK> known to its terrible bad taste for games and consoles(FPS or bb)
no wonder that will be the only place the 360 overtake something
and the RRoDeath, dont forget that
I’ve never been more disgusted to be a UK citizen. I hate my country.
LMAO!!! Great business plan M$…..let’s get the the history books to show us as the best because every one who buys one will have to buy another one when it breaks and so on and so forth!!!
So the PS2 is currently the “best selling console of all time”. Can someone actually tell me what that means exactly? What EXACTLY does that stat mean and do for anyone? Even Sony?
I done the biggest shit in history in 1994. What the hell can it do for me now??
It also came out a year earlier and had superior tech inside of it. Yet, it still took a year longer to gain the same sales as the Wii in a single country, and it is still around 30 million shy of the worldwide sales of the Wii.
“Our thanks to the customers who bought 4 XBOX360’s due the red ring of death because we made a shoddy product” – Microsoft.
That’s because half of the older 360’s broke and had to be replaced. ppfthhhht
That 360 is so ugly, not NEARLY as pretty as the 360 Slim.
No No Nooooooooooooo!!! why people buy this wannabe Dreamcast is beyond me!!!! You should had buy the real thing back in 1999 so we would have those real things here still today but no all you want is some fuckin wannabe. Fuck you!!!!!
Hmm, I guess people just have a masochistic fascination with machines that are only good for bricking themselves for no reason.
who cares what did the best, or what didn’t do the best. People buy whatever they like, and if they don’t like it, they don’t buy it. The wii u is going down the shitter, and the ps4 will most likely come out on top, but don’t start crying, and pointing fingers when it does.
First of all the DS is the best selling system of all time. Second the reason for the sales in the UK of the Xbox 360 going up is cause it seems a bunch more broke and had to be replaced. Seriously. Remove 50% of the entire Xbox 360 sales numbers from these last 8 years. There’s your real sales total.
Minus all the RROD replacements, and your still way behind Wii’s.
There might be some truth to this, nobody wants XB1, so they might settle with 360.
Help get rid of region locking on Nintendo consoles/handhelds by signing this petition > http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/nintendo-stop-region-blocking-make-the-3ds-and-wii-u-region-free
Now that Sony is not the only one with region free consoles, as Microsoft’s new console Xbox One is region free. It’s now time for Nintendo to end this practice. Not that region locking was acceptable to begin with.