Surprisingly good month for the Xbox Series with it being basically flat YoY and actually slightly up in the Americas. With how low its sales were last year this isn't great by any means but considering how things went for it in 2023 and 2024 this is potentially a good sign... which is what I would say if not for the big price increase. Pretty safe to say sales are gonna take a significant hit from that and it'll go right back to being down a lot.
May could be fine since it wouldn't have taken effect everywhere right away so some panic buying would've happened but the rest of this year after that should be rough so Xbox hardware really can't catch any break now. As soon as things are starting to look up a bit that happens. Combined with the GTA 6 delay the rest of this year is now a lost cause for it so the only thing left for the rest of its life is to see how much the Series S helps when that game launches.
Playstation had a decent month not being down by that much but this being the worst April for it yet isn't ideal considering the stock issues of 2021 and 2022. It collapsing in Japan is bringing things down and so is it not doing amazing in Europe like Playstation usually does since the PS4 sold over twice as much the equivalent month there. It's really just the US where the PS5 is still doing very well at this point and with no GTA 6 this year and a likely significant price increase soon the 2nd half of this year could potentially be a bit tough for it. It should have a strong May though since some people panic bought a PS5 last month to get ahead of a price increase.
And the Switch continues its spiral downwards and considering the 4.5m forecast it should be getting quite low a few months or so from now but with just one more full month to itself to go there's little more to say on it at this point since May should be really similar to this month for it.
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