{"id":104035,"date":"2019-11-19T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/nintendo_switch_looks_set_to_end_ps4s_five-year_reign_in_the_uk"},"modified":"2019-11-19T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T17:15:00","slug":"nintendo-switch-looks-set-to-end-ps4s-five-year-reign-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/19\/nintendo-switch-looks-set-to-end-ps4s-five-year-reign-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch Looks Set To End PS4&#8217;s Five-Year Reign In The UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5ead16d5fefec\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5ead16d5fefec\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Nintend Switch Lite\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5ead16d5fefec\/nintend-switch-lite.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5ead16d5fefec\/nintend-switch-lite.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintend Switch Lite\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>For the past five years, Sony has ruled the roost in the UK hardware sales charts. The PS4 is the territory&#8217;s undisputed champion with millions of consoles safely installed in millions of living rooms. However, it would seem that Nintendo&#8217;s recent robust performance is going to change things up a little.<\/p>\n<p>Retail data obtained by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2019-11-19-nintendo-switch-uk-sales-spike-30-percent-as-pok-mon-sword-and-shield-sets-record\">GamesIndustry.biz<\/a> indicates that Switch hardware sales have risen more than 30% over the past week thanks to the arrival of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 which has just jumped to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/pokemon_sword_and_shield_beats_star_wars_jedi_fallen_order_to_claim_number_one_spot_uk\">number one in the UK charts<\/a> and has enjoyed the biggest system-exclusive launch of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Hardware sales had spiked more than 75% the week prior to Sword and Shield&#8217;s release, and almost 90,000 Switch systems have been sold in the UK in November so far. While you might assume that the recently-released Switch Lite model is the reason for the jump, it is actually the original variant which is accounting for most of those sales.<\/p>\n<p>All of this has contributed to Switch becoming the best-selling console in the UK this year so far, ahead of Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 4. Retailers have told GamesIndustry.biz that a host of promotions are helping Switch fly off the shelves and that more offers will become available over the Black Friday period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past five years, Sony has ruled the roost in the UK hardware sales charts. The PS4 is the territory&#8217;s undisputed champion with millions of consoles safely installed in millions of living rooms. However, it would seem that Nintendo&#8217;s recent robust performance is going to change things up a little. Retail data obtained by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}