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After a strong July for the PS5 and Xbox Series it's back to normal though not fully since the PS5 is down significantly more than usual and this was actually the worst August for the PS5 yet despite the stock issues of 2021 and 2022 and until now it had always been the 2nd best month so far for it aside from March being 3rd. Being over 50% down in Europe is bad even if it did super well that month last year and it's selling about the same there as it did back in 2022 when there was a severe stock issue which is not a good sign.
It's continuing to do somewhat better than the PS4 in the US which is a big deal but it collapsed in Japan in September so the next couple months could be rough with huge drops YoY. It is still selling well but with the way momentum for it is looking lately it's a good thing 2025 is near and I wonder how much bigger the drop would've been without Wukong.
Also Xbox Series is back to being down a lot but not unusually so though next month will be really tough for it and the Switch is about the same amount down as it was last month so it's currently on pace to be about a third down YoY by the end though September will help somewhat and it's possible it holds up better during the holidays.
curl-6 said:
So Switch, the system that's well over 7 years old, has the smallest YOY drop of the current gen trio, interesting. PS5 and XBS also have almost the exact same YOY drop. Did PS5 get a big boost last August that it's coming down from, or is this just due to last year being inflated by pent-up demand finally being met? |
It's a mixture of pent up demand being met last year and the PS5 doing worse than usual this month.
Last edited by Norion - on 12 October 2024
