After the good launch of the new Xbox I thought that it would be a closer race between PS5 and Xbox Series. The sales of the last weeks suggest that we have a 2:1 ratio in favor of PS5. Sure, everyone struggles with shortages, but I get the feeling that we don't see such a close competition like with PS3/X360, which I have expected.

PS3 was an anomaly, it launched one year after 360, it was too expensive, plus some mistakes was made. Still it managed to beat 360 at the end.

Did you really expected PS5/XS would be the same thing when Sony have now even more exclusive blockbusters than before, launch in the same time, made no mistake and at the same price ?

Something else worth noting:

Japan Sales:
Nintendo Switch: 19.38 million
Nintendo Entertainment System: 19.35 million

The Switch has officially surpassed the NES in Japan!

Not sure why but I was curious so I did some research. NES was the main Nintendo console in Japan from 1983-1990. So they sold 19.35 million consoles in 6-7 years to a population amounting to roughly 117-120 million people, or 16-16.5% of the population. Japan had/will have 127 - 124 million people from 2017-2024 due to population decline going on for the foreseeable future, so they currently have sold Switch's to 15.5% of the population. They have sold about 4.8 million copies a year in Japan, so if the device sells that average amount for another two years it could pass 32 million copies in Japan and have a population attach rate of 25% (which would crush the NES).

The Famicom was only discontinued in 2003. It took it way longer than the Switch to sell that amount.

This is good stuff to point out.

Outselling the NES in Japan is definitely what I would call a "real accomplishment".  Normally we say "X console outsold the NES", but market conditions are so different today with populations being much bigger and modern consoles selling in a lot more territories.  However, Switch outselling NES looking at Japan only is a big deal, considering the populations are about the same.  The fact that it did it after about 4 years time is a really big deal.

Switch in Asia = more than three times every other system combined, holy moly.

Guess the rest of the region falls closely in line in Japan's trends.

Microsoft also aquired many new studios, maybe we see the result of this in a few years. I thought that Series S could make the difference because of its cheap price, but it seems that's not the case (at least as long shortages remain). I mean a 2:1 ratio is still better than what we had with PS4/XBO, but Xbox Series needs to be the first choice in the US, but there's a long way to go.

Media Create top 5 in Hong Kong and Corea almost has only Switch games. 

Dominate Japan Market maybe is the key to East Asia. 

You want too much ^^.

Worldwide, between PlayStation and Xbox, PlayStation usually comes first for the people.

And I don't talk about Switch God-like numbers.