PlayStation 4 sales in the UK have shot past the 1 million mark, Sony has revealed.

UK MD Fergal Gara told MCV that the console managed the feat in just 42 weeks, making it the second fastest-selling console in the country of all-time. The Wii managed to hit the same figure in 38 weeks."We have certainly seen PS3 consumers come across quite hard and fast," Gara said. "But a very significant proportion are people we have never seen on our network before. And from their behaviour and the types of games they are playing, it’s fairly clear that a big chunk of those have come across from Xbox, which is tremendous to see. And there’s a chunk that look like they’re brand new to gaming. And they’ve picked PS4 as their first serious gaming device."Last we heard, in the first quarter of this year the PS4 was outselling the Xbox One 3:1 . As for the console's worldwide figure? We found out at Gamescom last month that it's sitting pretty at over 10 million units

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