US Sales: November 2025 (Circana)

[Zippy6]

firebush03 said:

Zippy6 said:

Yes, even with the terrible USA sales, global sales PS5 in November has outsold PS4's 2018 November by over 700k units.

5m units sold for October+November they should easily be looking at an 8m+ holiday quarter and Sony clearly beating their forecast. Is the forecast still 15m for the FY or did they update it at some point?

It’s a uniquely US issue, I’ve noticed. For instance, NS2 outperformed NS1 November 2017 by nearly 100k WW despite falling significantly short in US. This is because NS2 saw a very solid boost over NS1 in EU, JP, and (likely) Other.

Similarly, PS5 saw an unprecedented YoY increase in EU. (Though not having JP left WW overall down. Took too hard of a hit in the US.)

Curious why that might be? I’m doubtful of it being an economic issue as (i) hardware sales have been powerful every other month this year, with NS2 even shattering records, and (ii) there is little precedent of economy correlating to poor gaming industry (e.g. 2000, 2008, and 2020–pres.).

Yes I'm not exactly sure. PS5 deals were obviously much better in EU, but even so the decline shouldn't have been so big. Worst November in 30 years for the industry is crazy while the other regions are doing fine.

This is also after they chose NOT to increase the price of the Switch 2 due to tariffs. The Switch 2 isn't priced any worse in USA to EU, if anything its better.

Question is if December is also a disaster or not.