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Forums - Sales Discussion - Switch and PS5 Sales Drop, XS Sales are Flat - Global Hardware Jan 30-Feb 5

rummonkey on 15 February 2022

Bad news for the PS5 and XBOX Series X. The Switch on the other hand is powering through this late in its life.



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curl-6 on 15 February 2022

Just because there's backed up demand and online hype for the PS5, doesn't mean that will necessarily translate to actual sales when supply is tight. Also, just because sales in a region are up, doesn't mean they'll be up globally; it could be stock allocated from elsewhere.


Xbox can at least get the Series S on shelves, while Nintendo aren't restricted to high end components. (Though the OLED is still feeling the squeeze to a lesser extent)

Last edited by curl-6 - on 16 February 2022

Pionner on 16 February 2022
RolStoppable said:
Pionner said:  


If you're going to base PS5 weekly numbers on the 2M estimate, then vgchartz will be doing some major adjustments in the coming weeks, months, leading up to the next financial report.

I don't think VGC has to worry about making adjustments because that's what constantly happens. "PS5 sales should be higher" has been a common theme through most of 2021, but the single-biggest adjustment to PS5 sales ended up being a downward adjustment.

Using Sony's 2m forecast is certainly a better point of reference for global sales than observing restocks in a single country. The few official sales numbers and tidbits we got from January suggest that Sony has been focusing on the USA early in the year while leaving parts of Europe dry. But there's no guarantee that that will be Sony's strategy through the entire quarter.

They were suppose to ship 6.5M PS5 in the holiday quarter. Which would of brought the PS5 to over 20M sold. We all know why that didn't happen and they only managed to sell 3.9M. That was out of Sony's control so i don't why you're bringing that up as if PS5 sales were down because of demand or something. PS5 sales should of been higher based off demand and Sony's sales estimates. So that "common theme" is correct.        

I like how everybody is ignoring January where sales estimates, from everyone, were completely off. Again, nobody expected PS5 to sell the most. "Low stock" and "shortages" didn't matter. Those 3 restocks were more than enough for PS5. SS is always in stock and it couldn't make up for lack of SX sales. Which tells that the demand for that console is not there.

Using the 2M forecast is a terrible point of reference to base weekly sales on cause if Sony ships just 500K more by March 31st then weekly sales estimates will be out of whack.

January sales should teach people enough.         



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Cobretti2 on 16 February 2022
trunkswd said:
Mummelmann said:

I haven't seen a Series X or PS5 in a store here in Stockholm since they were released, same story online. Now that I'm actually looking for one, I find it quite annoying.

That has been pretty much the situation worldwide for the PS5 and Series X since launch. 

Yep and I am at a point where I have close to loosing interest and won't end up buying either. Will just push me back to PC gaming.



 

 

curl-6 on 16 February 2022

Xbox Series being nearly 50% up year over year is damn impressive stuff, especially when its main rival is slightly down.



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jason1637 on 16 February 2022
curl-6 said:

Xbox Series being nearly 50% up year over year is damn impressive stuff, especially when its main rival is slightly down.

Xbox had a late start to it’s production of the Series X/S so early last year had worse supply issues than this year.



ironmanDX on 16 February 2022
jason1637 said:
curl-6 said:

Xbox Series being nearly 50% up year over year is damn impressive stuff, especially when its main rival is slightly down.

Xbox had a late start to it’s production of the Series X/S so early last year had worse supply issues than this year.

Not to mention the server blades for xCloud.

Probably shifted more production towards series S too. 50/50 split.



Norion on 17 February 2022

So in the end 2021 didn't quite surpass 50m but it got quite close and 2022 has the potential to depending largely on how down the Switch ends up being. And the PS5 and Xbox Series being close for a while will do well to make these threads more entertaining for the time being.