I've created some graphs for launch sales comparisons. Started as I was curious how the XSX was stacking up to the 360 in Japan and decided to make a few more. I intend to update these graphs each week as new data comes out, if anyone has any other comparisons they'd like to see made and updated weekly (hopefully) as a graph let me know.

Global Sales: Updated to: VGC (Week ending 11th December), This is the 58th week of PS5/XSX sales and the 251st week of Switch sales.

Japan Sales: Updated to: Famitsu Week 51 (19th December 2021), This is the 58th week of PS5/XSX Sales and the 251st week of Switch Sales.

PS5 vs XSX vs Switch (Global)

PS3+360 vs PS4+XBO vs PS5+XSX (Global)

PS3 vs PS4 vs PS5 (Global)

PS3 vs PS4 vs PS5 (Japan)

Xbox 360 vs Xbox One vs Xbox Series (Global)

Xbox 360 vs Xbox One vs Xbox Series (Japan)

DS vs Switch (Global)

DS vs 3DS vs Switch (Japan)

Week 58 Numbers

I find the gen7 vs gen8 vs gen9 comparison especially interesting.

Poor ps5 will fall behind its predecessor due to supply constraints. Hopefully the demand stays high!

The shipment forecast for PS5 hasn't been changed yet, they're still planning to ship 22.6m by March 2022 last we heard, compared to 22.3m by March 2015 for PS4. So it's possible stock starts ramping up soon so PS5 can stay ahead, but to be honest I'm not expecting them to meet that 22.6m target, I don't think they'll be able to produce enough, so yeah PS5 might fall behind.

If they had the stock PS5 would easily stay ahead, it's sold more than PS4 and is still sold-out everywhere while PS4 was readily available by this time. Demand for PS5 is much stronger than PS4's was.

Tagging.

Updated the Japan numbers for the Xbox comparison, the numbers taken from the VGC tool weren't perfectly in-line with Famitsu numbers so now using Famitsu numbers entirely. Also added table at the end that has the Week 52 total + weekly sales for all consoles I'm currently comparing, as well as the relevant numbers below each graph.

How about PS3 -vs- PS4 -vs- PS5 in Japan? Should be not less interesting than the X-Boxes comparison in Japan. :)

Agreed though I thought I heard recently they had lowered their projection for the fiscal year down a million due to component shortages?  I hope late next year the semiconductors can start getting supplied better so they can start really pumping.  I'm sure Sony is cursing this as they easily could be way ahead of the curve by now 

Bloomberg reported that they had lowered production forecast from 16m to 15m for the fiscal year, though neither of those figures are official from Sony. Only official figure is shipment forecast of 14.8m for the Fiscal year which hasn't been changed since it was first given in April. In August Sony reconfirmed that they would be able to produce enough to meet this figure, but things may have changed since then.

I have added this now!