Pokemon Boosts Switch Sales, PS5 and XS Sales are Even - Global Hardware Jan 23-29

[Norion]

jason1637 said:

Norion said:

While a lot of it is due to shortages it's still quite something to see the PS5 and Xbox Series selling basically the same after how gen 8 went. A ratio this close even if temporary is pretty unexpected and amazing for Microsoft and terrible for Sony. In particular being down over 20% in the 2nd year is really rough.

The Switch is up this week though not by a lot since big games will cause smaller boosts as time goes on and Nintendo is having supply trouble as well.

If Sonys shipment forecast holds they're going to be down 39% you for this quarter.

Jeez that would be incredibly bad. Even if it ends up being not quite that bad and it's 25-30% instead that would still be so unfortunate for them. It'll rebound eventually but man they're losing out big time on the opportunity to build up a large lead before the Microsoft acquisitions start properly paying off.