PS5 Achieved Second Best European November Sales on Record.

[Sephiran]

Zippy6 said:

Sephiran said:

According to Chris Dring, PS5 sales in the UK during November were down 57% year on year:

https://xcancel.com/Chris_Dring/status/2001952995848900883

Are VGChartz drastically overshooting PS5 sales in Europe? UK is the biggest PS market in Europe, if sales are down 57 % year on year there, how would it even be possible for PS5 to break European November sales record?

The date of this tracking does not include the vast majority of the period where the PS5 was heavily discounted. I believe it covers up to the 22nd of November and the PS5 was not discounted until the 21st of November.

The period where the PS5 was discounted by ~30% will be responsible for the vast majority of sales in November. Being up 16% YoY for BF week could be easily enough to undo all the damage of being down 57% for earlier in November.

But that 57 % down outside black friday, 16 % up during black friday at most would show a modest year on year increase in sales, or even pretty much stagnant sales. Hard to see how that yells with PS5 having a record month. No doubt PS5 sales in Europe crushed Switch 2 during November, but they didn't have a 2M+ record month in Europe.