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Forums - Sales Discussion - Global Hardware Jan 24-30 - PS5 Sales Top 5 Million

Norion on 12 February 2021
curl-6 said:

Switch in Japan alone outsells Xbox Series worldwide.

Seems like it will take some time for the new generation to find its footing, and it's certainly not cutting into Switch's momentum as so many claimed it would.

Nah the Switch will obviously fall off a cliff as soon as stock issues for the new consoles are sorted out. The PS4 and Xbox One didn't rapidly decline once the Switch fixed its stock issue but it'll be different in this case for reasons.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 12 February 2021

NS still dominates.
It looks like Sony can currently ship ~170k PS5s each week.
XS struggles to even reach 100k.



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eva01beserk on 12 February 2021
Dulfite said:
SKMBlake said:

Well, yes, MS is the biggest company in the planet, and make huge amounts of profits on all their softwares, Surface stuff, business oriented stuff (most of their profits comes from business related sotfwares and solutions actually). But my point was about Game Pass and the Xbox division.

And my point is that Gamepass is increasing revenues in their non-gaming divisions. You can't just judge Gamepass by the $ it makes directly, but also indirectly. There are more, potentially millions more, people on Office 365 or using Windows license BECAUSE of gamepass PC than there would be if gamepass PC didn't exist.

Can you say the same for stadia then? How many people bought Chromecast for stadia? How many got Google fiber? Stadia is wining right? 



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sales2099 on 13 February 2021

Looks like a normal week. Xbox steady, hope supply drought ends soon



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curl-6 on 13 February 2021

If both are sold out, why does Xbox Series have so much less supply than PS5?



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eva01beserk on 14 February 2021
trunkswd said:
curl-6 said:

If both are sold out, why does Xbox Series have so much less supply than PS5?

Sony has more manufacturing lines than Microsoft does.  Plus Sony had PS5 manufacturing lines up and running 2 or 3 months sooner than Microsoft did with Xbox Series X|S. 

That just brings the question of why they where late or have less manufacturing lines?

With the resourses MS has manufacturing lines at least this can only be by choice. Lets just remember that by this time last gen the xbox was stocked everywhere and ps4 hard to find. Dont think this can be answerd as simoly as sony was more prepared. We are talking about multi billion dollar companies here that spend a ton on market research. 



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AJNShelton on 14 February 2021
curl-6 said:

If both are sold out, why does Xbox Series have so much less supply than PS5?

The Series S isn't sold out in Europe actually.



derpysquirtle64 on 14 February 2021
curl-6 said:

If both are sold out, why does Xbox Series have so much less supply than PS5?

Xbox One was selling at baseline of 40k consoles per week for the last two-three years. Increasing the production lines to be able to produce 200-300k consoles per week is extremely expensive and is not gonna achieve anything except getting consoles straight out to those people who are spreading set on buying it anyway. The second factor is the components. I don't think I need to explain that AMD provides more chips to Sony than to Microsoft because of the last gen consoles sales. And I think you don't even need to be a top industry analyst to come to the conclusion that the demand for PS5 is higher than for Xbox Series X|S.



 

Signalstar on 14 February 2021
trunkswd said:
 
93,95385,980114,209363,437
64,71458,15325,847169,958
58,02127,4281,16298,020
13,87732,3753,69457,255
11,2816,010919,981
3083525421,318

Be sure to share the Weekly breakdown article:

The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console with 363,437 units sold for the week ending January 30, according to VGChartz estimates. The Switch has now sold an estimated 78.63 million units lifetime.

The PlayStation 5 sold an estimated 169,958 units to bring its lifetime sales to 5.01 million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 98,020 units to bring their lifetime sales to 3.41 million units.

The PlayStation 4 sold an estimated 57,255 units, the Xbox One sold 19,981 units, and the Nintendo 3DS sold 1,318 units.

Nintendo Switch sales compared to the same week a year ago are up 108,719 units (42.7%). The PlayStation 4 is down 78,000 units (-57.7%), the Xbox One is down 21,320 units (-51.6%), and the 3DS is down 12,947 units (-90.8%).

Global hardware estimates (Followed by lifetime sales):

  1. Switch - 363,437 (78,631,440)
  2. PlayStation 5 - 169,958 (5,005,078)
  3. Xbox Series X|S - 98,020 (3,413,931)
  4. PlayStation 4 - 57,255 (114,934,524)
  5. Xbox One - 19,981 (49,631,052)
  6. 3DS - 1,318 (75,914,618)
Americas (US, Canada, Latin America) hardware estimates:
  1. Switch - 102,186
  2. PlayStation 5 - 69,958
  3. Xbox Series X|S - 57,696
  4. PlayStation 4 - 14,884
  5. Xbox One - 12,259
  6. 3DS - 338
Europe hardware estimates:
  1. Nintendo Switch - 85,980
  2. PlayStation 5 - 58,153
  3. PlayStation 4 - 32,375
  4. Xbox Series X|S - 27,428
  5. Xbox One - 6,010
  6. 3DS - 352
Asia (Japan, mainland Asia, Middle East) hardware estimates:
  1. Switch - 162,113
  2. PlayStation 5 - 35,521
  3. PlayStation 4 - 8,274
  4. Xbox Series X|S - 4,257
  5. Xbox One - 885
  6. 3DS - 602
Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) hardware estimates:
  1. Switch - 13,158
  2. PlayStation 5 - 6,326
  3. Xbox Series X|S - 3,356
  4. PlayStation 4 - 1,722
  5. Xbox One - 827
  6. 3DS - 26

When is VGChartz planning to update the cumulative sales graph on the main page to include the PS5 and Xbox Series?



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Alby_da_Wolf on 14 February 2021
trunkswd said:
curl-6 said:

If both are sold out, why does Xbox Series have so much less supply than PS5?

Sony has more manufacturing lines than Microsoft does.  Plus Sony had PS5 manufacturing lines up and running 2 or 3 months sooner than Microsoft did with Xbox Series X|S. 

eva01beserk said:
trunkswd said:

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That just brings the question of why they where late or have less manufacturing lines?

With the resourses MS has manufacturing lines at least this can only be by choice. Lets just remember that by this time last gen the xbox was stocked everywhere and ps4 hard to find. Dont think this can be answerd as simoly as sony was more prepared. We are talking about multi billion dollar companies here that spend a ton on market research. 

RolStoppable said:
curl-6 said:

If both are sold out, why does Xbox Series have so much less supply than PS5?

Because Microsoft planned with smaller production than Sony to begin with. For years the PS4 has outsold the XB1 by a ratio of more than 2:1, so the XSX|S's current supply is looking okay in comparison to the PS5.


Another thing that could help Sony compared to MS is the higher number of SoC per wafer, as it chose to use in its SoC a significantly smaller GPU running at higher frequency. This obviously just affects periods of components shortages, but as soon as the supply chain will return to normality, all and only the other factors will influence production and sales.



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