Global Hardware Jan 17-23 - PS5 and Xbox Series X|S Sales Rise

[Norion]

Robert_Downey_Jr. said:

Norion said:

Most weeks this year will probably be at least kinda similar to this one. The PS5 has now fallen behind the PS4 and with the latter yet to get its launch sales in Japan it'll stay behind for at least a while and the Xbox Series X|S is now slightly ahead of Xbox One and while it's very early the conventional wisdom that the PS5 will sell less than its predecessor and the Xbox Series X|S more already has a bit of weight behind it.

I dunno if you can take much from PS5 trailing since it is selling everything they put out.  When supply catches up to demand we can make a fair assessment.  Any trailing can be attributed to Covid rn

For PS5 being behind even if supply picks up it'll take some time to catch up due to the lead the PS4 will get by the end of February. I do think it could catch up this year but doubt it would before at least a few months had passed. I agree a full proper assessment can't be made but unless the stock situation improves unexpectedly fast there's a decent picture for the first half of this year.