PS5 Becomes UK's Biggest Ever Console Launch, Says New Report

Great news for Sony, here's hoping they can get the supply up sharpish. Really enjoying the PS5 so far though, had another couple of hours on Demon's Souls last night and it's just so, so good.

I was lucky enough to get one at retail but I would advise nobody pays the fees that scalpers are charging as it's simply not worth it. Its a great console but you're not missing anything at the moment. Overall arguably the most underwhelming console launch I can remember in terms of new games for the new systems.

Astro Bot is comfortably the most fun I've had with the new system, Miles Morales is good fun but very short (13 hours for platinum and that includes 2 playthroughs), its early days for Demon's Souls but its incredible so far.

As for comparing versions and Xbox its largely irrelevant right now as all are limited by how many were available, what will be interesting is seeing how all these sell when freely available.

I was the only one of my core friends to grab a PS5 so far. If it wasn't for this lockdown and pandemic stuff I doubt I'd be able to get them out my house. I'm their unofficial news source for all PS5 related matters now.

B-but muh teraflops!

@SegaBlueSky Yea I'm loving Demon's Souls as well! 🙂

@carlos82 The allocations for each country were based on what previous gens sold there, though. Spain got about 14k units because the previous 3 generations of Xbox all only sold 14k there in the first week. MS know that and will have allocated a lot more to places where Xbox sells, which is mainly just the US. There's clearly no point in shipping 500k to Japan when their consoles sell like 20 units a week there.

This basically just means they had more stock this time round, which given the current global situation is actually quite impressive.

I think both the Xbox and PS5 would have sold out if they had 5 times as much stock available.

At one point I was in a queue on Currys website with 150K people just for the PS5

Imagine how many would have been sold if Sony had an Unlimited supply of Playstation 5 consoles.

I'm sure the great launch line up helped massively! The PS4s wasn't great, so no surprise more people are wanting a PS5.

That's a pretty crazy number. I wonder how that translates to the rest of Europe and the world.

I was one of the chosen ones

@carlos82 Did you buy ps4 at launch? I bought ps4 maybe about 4-6 month after launch and beside indies and 3rd party, the only game that's available is killzone sf, knack, and infamous second son. Ps5 is way better launch than others playstation console, with demon's souls, miles morales, astro, and sackboy available on launch day.

Well done Sony and well deserved. Would be good one day to have unlimited stock of release consoles, to see which company does actually sell the most on release week. As supply plays a big part in this. But if there was I think Sony would sell more with the PS5.

@Matroska I realise that but it doesn't change that they're all sold out in every market and sales right now are limited purely by how many they can manufacture. I fully expect the PS5 to be far more successful though

@wiiware yeah I got a PS4 at launch but PS5 way better? The games are good but how many do you genuinely need a PS5 to play? Astro's Playroom is the only one.

My point is that these days new consoles are more like getting a new graphics card than a new system, PS1 was a huge jump from the 16 bit era, even PS2 was all new games and a big jump, PS3 also now its play the PS4 Spider-Man with some cool looking reflections. These consoles are technically great and will definitely have plenty of great exclusives but if I didn't get it, I wouldn't have been that bothered

Hmm, can you call it a successful launch when it feels like the majority of stock landed in scalpers hands?????

I was lucky enough to get both PS5 and Series X after careful planning. I did get caught out with the PS5 as I didn't know about the pre-order situation after Sony announced it when I was asleep, by the time I awoke they had sold out but I heard rumours of Argos selling it the next day and was able to get on that boat. I feel sorry for the people who have missed out. The Xbox was relatively easier to get hold of as I had a bit of lead time up to pre-order day.

Mine arrived a few hours ago. Nice easy set up...now I'm eating dinner with "GPUUUUUU" stuck in my head from Astrobot! 😆

I bought my PS4 after launch when Infamous Second Son came out. I got my PS5 at launch because there were more games I wanted to play.

In my case my later buy of the PS4 moved to these launch figures for PS5, honestly I feel like there is more launch demand for it which may be offset by lower future demand.

No consoles left from launch date never got a look in.
Covid and people stuck indoors helps sales as they have nothing todo so playing consoles help them todo something.

Yes, got one and was allowed to hold the box for about a minute before snatched away by my beloved saying not having it till Christmas.

@carlos82 That kind of graphical jump is over I think, especially from 2D to 3D. Graphics wise demon's souls is pretty good though, the texture work can only be done on next-gen, another game like that is that monkey king game from china (black myth wukong).

@wiiware don't get me wrong I'm not criticising the quality of the game, the few hours I've played so far have been fantastic and it does look amazing. Just the point you said about those big jumps being gone and certainly those generation cutoffs are a thing of the past

@AJDarkstar exactly a bit like getting a new component for your PC and yes it looks great with ray tracing, I wish it was a bit longer though

All the PS5s are sold out in my area. I’m still baffled as to how people are able to log on and snag it so quickly

That's all fine and dandy but most of the stock is sitting in people's basements being sold at exorbitant prices.

Congrarulations!
Yes, Japanese market is barres soil.
Can I buy a PS5 in 2021(or until end of March)?

@carlos82 I actually hope we get more than graphics from this new gen, smoother framerate (60 fps), more interactive levels, more physics, better ai, and others. Some ps2 & ps3 era games has more interactivity and breakable object than ps4, it would be cool if games can be like that again.

I think the first real next-gen game we get is 2021 ratchet & clank, and 3rd party games will follow at 2022 and beyond.

@RandomAfricanGamer Same here, I think a lot of it is bots though.