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Forums - Sales Discussion - PS4 ~73% Marketshare in 2017 (XB1 ~25%, Wii U 2.2%)

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barneystinson69 on 11 March 2017
4k1x3r said:
Enemy said:

Good view but it still doesn't explain everything.

Holiday months affect NA more than any other territory. When the PS4 outsells Xbox One over two to one during nonholiday months it is mainly because of countries outside NA.

According to VGChartz, NA accounts for less than half of PS4 sales. I don't see NA holiday sales making up for the gap the PS4 gains from outselling Xbox One over two to one outside NA all year.  

According to the OP the sales gap during nonholiday months is substantial and this isn't new. It doesn't explain why VGChartz always has Xbox sitting at just above half of the PS4 lifetime total even during nonholiday months when the PS4 is outselling Xbox One over two to one. Lifetime totals never seem to reflect it. Their Xbox lifetime sales seem to shoot up out of thin air on occasion even during nonholiday months.   

Add this inconsistency to other facts. I understand VGChartz isn't 100% accurate and VGChartz has a record of undertracking PS4 lifetime sales whenever Sony releases sales numbers. Microsoft hides all Xbox One numbers and Sony provides hardware numbers, so PS4 sales aren't as difficult to track as Xbox One sales.

If we go by all of these inconsistencies I don't think the Xbox One has sold 28.5 million. It seems like VGChartz may just be using PS4 sales as a reference to make the Xbox One lifetime sales just above half of whatever the PS4 lifetime is at any given time because it is an easy way to track Xbox One sales even if it isn't accurate. That would explain why the Xbox One lifetime total never seems to reflect the weekly and monthly reports where the PS4 outsells Xbox One over two to one.  

 

Reports from the manufacturers had the X1 at 26m when VGC had it at over 28m. So yea, this website is useless and the main reason people stay now is nostalgia and the forum.

Estimates. Most manufacturers had the Xbox one at around 20 million last year. Are you telling me that the Xbox one declined 25% year over year? Because that's a bit rediculous. 



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

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jason1637 on 11 March 2017
CGI-Quality said:
jason1637 said:
Will drop when Switch releases.

If Switch is 9th Gen, then I imagine it would go against the PS5 and Xbox Next.

Well eventually it will compete with the PS5 and whatever MS decideds to do xb1.5 but for now its competing with the ps4 and the latest xb1.



Mr_No on 11 March 2017

My question is that now that NPD considered the Switch as 8th gen, how will the marketshare will distribute throughout the consoles when there's a Wii U on the same generation?



jason1637 on 11 March 2017
CGI-Quality said:
jason1637 said:

Well eventually it will compete with the PS5 and whatever MS decideds to do xb1.5 but for now its competing with the ps4 and the latest xb1.

The Wii didn't compete with the PS2 or Xbox. If the Switch is 9th Gen, it currently has 100% market share.

Because the Wii came out in 2006 around the time other new consoles launched.

The Switch is competing with the PS4 and XB1 in the sense that Nintendo will need to try to get consumers to buy their console instead of others similar to how the dreamcast competed with the 5th and 6th gen consoles. Then when the PS5 and new versions of the XB1 come out ti will continue to compete with them until Nintendo launches another console.



jason1637 on 11 March 2017
Mr_No said:
My question is that now that NPD considered the Switch as 8th gen, how will the marketshare will distribute throughout the consoles when there's a Wii U on the same generation?

NPD considers Wii U as a legacy console.



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jason1637 on 11 March 2017
CGI-Quality said:
jason1637 said:

Because the Wii came out in 2006 around the time other new consoles launched.

The Switch is competing with the PS4 and XB1 in the sense that Nintendo will need to try to get consumers to buy their console instead of others similar to how the dreamcast competed with the 5th and 6th gen consoles. Then when the PS5 and new versions of the XB1 come out ti will continue to compete with them until Nintendo launches another console.

They're competing, in the sense, that they're all trying to grab your dollars. Regarding market share, however, there is only one 9th gen machine with 100% of that market. 

Okay fair enough.



StuOhQ on 11 March 2017

That's pretty impressive. Switch should shift a few digits Nintendo's way - even if it isn't a blockbuster. The Wii U captured 14% of the market in it's lifetime - and it was a bust.

- 97.7 million consoles sold in TOTAL
- 55.3 PS4s (56.6%)
- 28.5 XBOs (29.2%)
- 13.9 WiiUs (14.2%)

I'm guessing the Switch takes at least a quarter of the market during 2018. Probably a little less this year, as the competition has two months on Nintendo.



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HollyGamer on 12 March 2017
CGI-Quality said:
jason1637 said:

Well eventually it will compete with the PS5 and whatever MS decideds to do xb1.5 but for now its competing with the ps4 and the latest xb1.

The Wii didn't compete with the PS2 or Xbox. If the Switch is 9th Gen, it currently has 100% market share.

and also for handled it's obviously compete with Vita and 3DS and also posibly iphones or ipad or even android devices.