Nintendo Switch was the best-selling games console during UK Black Friday with 42% of all sales, Xbox second with 40% of all sales

[PhantomThief]

Nintendo Switch was the best-selling games console over Black Friday in the UK, GfK Entertainment reveals.

The hybrid machine accounted for 42% of all console’s sold during the week. This is due to the return of last year’s Black Friday Switch bundle, which included a Switch Neon machine, Mario Kart 8: Deluxe and three months of Nintendo Switch Online.

The company faced strong competition this year, led by an aggressive offer by Xbox. Microsoft reduced its Xbox Series S machine to under £200 during Black Friday, and the platform accounted for 40% of all consoles sold during the week. PS5, which did receive some small discounts of its digital-only edition, accounted for 18% of sales.

All three consoles posted their biggest sales weeks of the year so far during the Black Friday period.

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[Biggzy (Hassan)]

Xbox must have done really big numbers to more than double PlayStation and yet it had its biggest week this year.

[QuietGamer90 (Tawsif (Rafee))]

@Jean-Valjean

Strong sales from Xbox, with their Series S they really improved their reach.

We also have to take into account that there is still a PS5 shortage. It might explain the really low sales of Playstation this Black Friday (On top of having little to no discount on their consoles).

The supply shortage is also there for the Xbox consoles.

[Cairnst (Bill Cairns)]

@Jean-Valjean

Strong sales from Xbox, with their Series S they really improved their reach.

We also have to take into account that there is still a PS5 shortage. It might explain the really low sales of Playstation this Black Friday (On top of having little to no discount on their consoles).

Yeah, I think with the lack of significant discount in a week driven by sales there’s not much we can really say about the demand for Playstation here, but what we can say is that Xbox had a damned good week.

[Zip]

@Jean-Valjean

Strong sales from Xbox, with their Series S they really improved their reach.

We also have to take into account that there is still a PS5 shortage. It might explain the really low sales of Playstation this Black Friday (On top of having little to no discount on their consoles).

Wonder if they sold 24601. Nice name

[Jorge_Alexander_Acos (Jorge Alexander Acosta Duarte)]

Series S is also killing it here in Colombia.

The little one was born for this.

[Vonterribad (Matt)]

Very suprised given GOW.