PS2 Still Ahead In UK Hardware Sales

Following on from recent celebrations of five million PlayStation 2s sold in the UK, ChartTrack have revealed that the console still holds a 62.4% share of the UK home console market (not including handhelds). During the five weeks ended January 31st the PlayStation 2 saw sales decrease by 3%, Xbox sales rise by 25% and GameCube sales increase by 78%. In terms of overall market share though the Xbox is still a very distant second with 26.1% of the market and the GameCube an almost irrelevant 11.4%. These results are largely in keeping with previous activity in the UK market although the wider European market, for which figures are much harder to come by, generally show GameCube sales at the same level or slightly above the Xbox. In related news SCEE chief David Reeves has hinted in trade newspaper MCV that the PlayStation 2 could drop to a £99 price tag before the end of the year, but that "there are many other things we will do first”. Source: ChartTrack