. And yet the situation is very different in the UK. Long known to be Nintendo's weakest major market, the Nintendo Switch has only just now outsold the Xbox One, despite Microsoft's previous console being a massive flop in terms of worldwide sales. To look at things in context, the official lifetime total for the Switch is currently 111.1 million consoles, as of the end of June (so it'll be a few million more by now – the PlayStation 4's total is 117.2 million). Microsoft doesn't reveal hardware sales figures, precisely because the Xbox One did so badly, but its unofficial lifetime total is thought to be around 51 million. Not only is the UK Nintendo's worst market but it's Microsoft's second best, after the US, so while there are no figures for exactly how well either console has done, the fact that the Switch has only just beaten a rival it trounced everywhere else in the world years ago shows you just how different the UK market is. Nintendo doesn't offer sales data for the UK specifically, but it does break things down by regions, with North America taking the lion's share with 39.75 million sales, Europe next with 28.08 million, Japan on 25.17 million, and the rest of the world on 16.51 million. Meanwhile, Nintendo Switch has surpassed Xbox One in terms of total sales in the UK. Next it has PS3 in its sights— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) November 3, 2022 So, overall, you can see that Europe as a whole){kind=link}
In surprising news, it’s been revealed that the Nintendo Switch has only just now outsold the Xbox One, with the PS3 still in its sights.
If it hasn’t done so already, it’ll only be a few months now before the Nintendo Switch outsells the PlayStation 4 and becomes the second best-selling home console of all-time.
That’s something that seemed impossible until recently, given the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 had a four year head start on the Switch, especially as the PlayStation 4 is Sony’s second most successful console of all time (behind only the PlayStation 2).
And yet the situation is very different in the UK. Long known to be Nintendo’s weakest major market, the Nintendo Switch has only just now outsold the Xbox One, despite Microsoft’s previous console being a massive flop in terms of worldwide sales.
To look at things in context, the official lifetime total for the Switch is currently 111.1 million consoles, as of the end of June (so it’ll be a few million more by now – the PlayStation 4’s total is 117.2 million).