Best console from 2023

[Shtinamin_]

Who out of all the consoles had the best year in 2023?

• Nintendo Switch (Switch, Switch Lite, Switch OLED)
• PlayStation 5 (PS5, PS5 Digital, PS5 Slim, PS5 Slim Digital)
• Xbox Series (Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S)
• Steam Deck (Steam Deck, Steam Deck OLED, Steam Deck LCD)
• Oculus Quest 3
• Oculus Quest 2 (Quest 2, Quest 2 Pro)
• PlayStation VR 2
• PlayStation Portal
• Lenovo Legion Go
• Atari 2600+

I want to give a little tidbit of info and I hope you can give reasoning to your decisions as well.

Switch sold in 2023 with over 12.82+ million units and ends 2023 with over 133.17+ million units (totals came from VGChartz Jan-Nov Hardware Charts and articles with Japan sales Nov 27th-Dec 17th).

• 4 Nintendo published games with 90+ metacritic score in 2023
• 14 Nintendo published games released in 2023
• Ended 2023 with 330+ million Nintendo Accounts in 164 countries/regions
• Ended 2023 with 38+ million Nintendo Switch Online subscribers
• 11,000 games in Nintendo Switch Library

PlayStation 5 sold in 2023 with 18.99 million units and ends 2023 with 50 million units (totals came from VGChartz articles)

• 1 Sony Interactive Company published game with 90+ metacritic score in 2023
• 7 Sony Interactive Company published games released in 2023
• Ended 2023 with 123 million monthly active Playstation Network users
• Since Sept 2023 there have been around 50 million PlayStation Plus subscribers
• 627 PS5 games

Xbox Series X/S sold in 2023 with approximately 5.64+ million units and ends 2023 with over 25.37+ million units (totals came from VGChartz Jan-Nov Hardware Charts and articles with Japan sales Nov 27th-Dec 17th).

• 1 Microsoft published with 90+ metacritic score in 2023
• 11 Xbox Game Studios games released in 2023
• Ended 2023 with 120+ million monthly active Microsoft Xbox Network users
• Since Sept 2023 there have been 30 million Xbox Game Pass subscribers
• 417 Xbox Series games

Steam Deck sold in 2023 a minimum of around 2 million units and ends 2023 with over 3+ million units (Multiple Millions Nov 13, 2023)

• 1 Valve published game released in 2023
• Ended 2023 with 132 million monthly active Steam users
• 13,000 playable or verified games

Oculus Quest 3 sold in 2023 a minimum of 69,000 units (November data outside VGChartz)

• 1 Oculus Studios game with 90+ metacritic score
• 1 Oculus Studios game released in 2023

Oculus Quest 2 sold in 2023 a minimum of 1.06 million units (difficult to find sales data) and ends 2023 with over 18+ million units

• 1 Oculus Studios game with 90+ metacritic score
• 1 Oculus Studios game released in 2023

PlayStation VR 2 sold as of March 2023 with 0.6 million units.

PlayStation Portal sold in 2023 over 6.7k units (Spain November and Scalper November data)

Lenovo Legion Go (information unavailable)

Atari 2600+ (information unavailable)

*edit: added Microsoft game with 90+ metacritic score, Xbox Game Studios published changed to Microsoft published, added 7 games that I missed that was published by Microsoft (under their plethora of software companies).

Last edited by Shtinamin_ - on 10 January 2024