PlayStation/Xbox/Switch Hardware Battle: 2021 Edition: FINAL RESULTS!

[PAOerfulone]

Week 10 Breakdown:

PlayStation 4: Down in all regions.

PlayStation 5: Up in all regions

Xbox One: Down in all regions.

Xbox Series: Up in all regions.

Nintendo Switch: Up in all regions.

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Week 10 has now come and gone. And here's the landscape:

Sony - The lows keep getting lower for the PS4 as it on the verge of dropping below 40k sales per week. It's getting to the point where the PS3 is almost outselling it at a 2:1 ratio, and if that were to extend for the year as a whole, then 2021 PS4 sales would fall short of 2 million. On the flip side, the PS5's baseline only seems to keep getting higher. Funny how that works. The PS5 has now closed the gap to under 100k and it is expected to overtake the PS4 and jump ahead in the coming weeks. Either the last week of March or first week of April would be my guess.

Microsoft - The general story is the same for Microsoft as the Xbox One continues to fade further and further into obscurity, now closing in on under 15k a week. Perhaps a sub-10k week may be in the cards. The Xbox Series adds to its lead again, stretching it to over 250k. Though, next week it should shrink due to the release of Titanfall around that same period in 2014 which more than doubled Xbox One sales that week. But then they almost immediately fell back to normal and then the baseline just dipped to almost Wii U levels before it finally ditched the Kinect 2.0 and got a price cut. By that point, the Xbox Series should be off to a very big lead and a steady baseline that's north of 100k.

Nintendo - A newsworthy week for the Nintendo Switch as it has offically passed the PlayStation Portable on the all time Video Game Console sales list. And it is primed and poised to past the Game Boy Advance next week, and then we'll have Monster Hunter Rise the week after going head-to-head with Animal Crossing: New Horizons from last year. It will almost certainly do monstrous numbers in Japan, the only question is how much will that boost extend to the other regions?