50.2% of all UK bodily sport gross sales have been on PS4, making 2017 the primary 12 months on file that a single platform has accounted for greater than half of the market, in response to GfK Chart-Track and the Association for UK Interactive Entertainment through Gamesindustry.biz .
Xbox One had the subsequent highest market share, accounting for 31.6% of video games bought.
Following heavy reductions on Black Friday, greater than 70 million PS4s have now been sold worldwide as of the beginning of December 2017.
It was a robust 12 months general for Sony, with seven of their platform exclusives spending at the least one week on prime of the gross sales charts, together with Crash Bandicoot: N Sane Trilogy, which collected 5 consecutive weeks (seven complete) on the prime over the summer season, a file for the 12 months, till Call of Duty WW2 took the Christmas number one this week.
The different video games to prime the charts have been Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Persona 5, WipeOut: Omega Collection, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and Gran Turismo: Sport.
Release scheduling could have contributed to those statistics nevertheless, with key Microsoft-exclusive video games like Forza 7 launching against multi-platform behemoths like FIFA 18 – and since this information solely covers bodily gross sales, digital may inform a unique story.
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