Zombie9ers on 25 January 2019
Playstation 4 was the top selling home console of 2018 - according to VGchartz estimates - beating its closest competition Nintendo's Switch by over a million units. Microsoft's Xbox One finished in a distant third:
Global Hardware by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | 18,000,767 | (-10%) | 91,117,828 |
| NS | 16,916,375 | (+28%) | 29,190,942 |
| XOne | 6,959,143 | (-9%) | 41,023,595 |
| 3DS | 3,563,153 | (-49%) | 74,120,642 |
| PSV | 222,763 | (-70%) | 16,096,456 |
That is now the 8th year in a row that Sony has led the home console market. You'd have to go back all the way to 2010, the last heydays of the WII, since Sony was last behind:
Global Hardware by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DS | 20,620,707 | (-25%) | 141,480,558 |
| Wii | 17,320,956 | (-18%) | 82,096,418 |
| PS3 | 13,896,438 | (+7%) | 46,388,642 |
| X360 | 13,253,914 | (+32%) | 49,961,079 |
| PSP | 9,243,328 | (-6%) | 65,532,833 |
I expect the run might come to an end this year with the Switch heating up (and a new Pokemon game arriving during the holiday season)- but don't be surprised if a permanent price cut to the PS4 keeps things interesting.
If the PS5 does drop in 2020 though- you can expect Sony to quickly reclaim the throne.
