5 million in just a month is truly extraordinary considering the PS5 and PS5 couldn't do that with two and their first couple months being November and December. The record has been destroyed to such a degree it wouldn't surprise me at all if the Switch 2 keeps it forever. Time will tell how it'll start selling next year once demand is consistently fulfilled but with a launch this gigantic safe to say we're looking at another console with a high likelihood of entering the top 5 best selling of all time. Whether it'll finish closer to 120m or 150m is the main question I think.
For the Switch 1 it had a another drop with it going from just under 50% down in May to just under 60% down in June. It didn't decline as much as I was expecting since I thought sub 50k weekly would likely be happening by that point. What's interesting is like Japan Europe had a big decline right after the successor came out but for whatever reason the US not only didn't but did basically identical to May. If it had also declined it would've been selling about 50k weekly so I really wonder what's going on there. It'll decline further in the US before long I'm sure but it not being immediately impacted by the launch of the Switch 2 there seems strange. Either way the YoY declines look like they'll settle at 60-70% for a bit soon so it's unsurprisingly falling off fast though at 151m that's not a problem at all other than its likelihood of beating the record.
The PS5 had a notably weaker June than I was expecting. Its weekly average was barely any different than in May despite the vast majority of the discount period being in the former and it's the 2nd worst June for it yet which isn't ideal when there were still stock issues for it back in 2022. It's still selling really well of course but with its former main competition basically being dead it's a bad sign for the traditional console market if it's still selling notably worse than the PS4 did even after the big Xbox price increase. If Sony does the same thing then the market will start looking outright rough. At least the PS5 has a bigger 2026 compared to the PS4's 2019 going for it thanks to GTA 6.
And yeah the Xbox Series is basically done now with it being 50% down YoY and selling about half what an 8 year old console that just got replaced sold. People were premature with this before but it truly is selling like the Wii U did weekly at this point and everything points to it declining further over the next couple years with Microsoft no longer caring about selling it so should start selling even worse than the Wii U weekly next year. GTA 6 will still do at least a bit that year since the cheapest way to play the game will still count for something but safe to say the impact won't be that much at this point unless Microsoft suddenly starts pushing the console again. It's also safe to say that College Football won't help out nearly at much this July cause of the big price increase and it just being another entry when the the one last year was the first one in over a decade. Unless a Fortnite level hit comes out of nowhere soon the Xbox Series is finished selling a relevant amount of units so going forward probably the only thing of note to watch for will be seeing just how horrid the sales get in the last stretch of its life.
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