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spurgeonryan on 19 December 2022

How do I find global weekly or monthly software sales now or even America's software? I do not see a link on front page.



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Norion on 19 December 2022
BonfiresDown said:
Norion said:

Have the stock issues for that there been fully cleared up?

Series X has been easily available for months in Europe. Even PS5s Ragnarök bundles are available at will now, though that wasn’t neccessarily the case at the end of November.

I just checked Amazon and yeah I could order either one right now if I wanted so that's good to see.



trunkswd on 19 December 2022
spurgeonryan said:

How do I find global weekly or monthly software sales now or even America's software? I do not see a link on front page.

We stopped doing software estimates at the end of 2018 and only report official software figures from publishers, developers, etc. You can see those figures on specific game pages or on the main GameDB page (https://www.vgchartz.com/games/games.php?order=TotalShipped). On the front page you can see some of the more recent shipment figures.



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trunkswd on 19 December 2022

I forgot to post my stream, but the video going over the latest VGChartz estimates and gaming news is now live on YouTube.



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mjk45 on 20 December 2022
kazuyamishima said:
mjk45 said:

While it may look good to be leading a resurgent Xbox in NA taking your best market for granted is a dangerous game to play and the longer it goes on the more dangerous it becomes .

Even though the PS3 did go from struggling to sell 60/70 million to eventually sneaking past the 360 with around 87 mill sold helping see Sony out of the doldrums to at least having a little wind in their sails coming into the next gen, it was mainly Europe that drove the PS4's increase something that in turn helped strengthen both the Sony and PlayStation brand image worldwide.

There may be logistical reasons to the discrepancy, but if I put money on it, it would be due to there focus not being about how the PS4's overall sales success was achieved and how to replicating but that their pride took over and retaining NA became the focus, now that's ok except they have done so at the expense of other areas.

US dollar is stronger than the Euro, I suspect they will release a different model next year and/or will try to reduce their cost and will start shipping more units into Europe next year.

But that's just my opinion.

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mjk45 on 20 December 2022
kazuyamishima said:
mjk45 said:

While it may look good to be leading a resurgent Xbox in NA taking your best market for granted is a dangerous game to play and the longer it goes on the more dangerous it becomes .

Even though the PS3 did go from struggling to sell 60/70 million to eventually sneaking past the 360 with around 87 mill sold helping see Sony out of the doldrums to at least having a little wind in their sails coming into the next gen, it was mainly Europe that drove the PS4's increase something that in turn helped strengthen both the Sony and PlayStation brand image worldwide.

There may be logistical reasons to the discrepancy, but if I put money on it, it would be due to there focus not being about how the PS4's overall sales success was achieved and how to replicating but that their pride took over and retaining NA became the focus, now that's ok except they have done so at the expense of other areas.

US dollar is stronger than the Euro, I suspect they will release a different model next year and/or will try to reduce their cost and will start shipping more units into Europe next year.

But that's just my opinion.

You may be right about next year since the drop to 6nm already means more chips per wafer and a cheaper revision in the form of my PS5 1202A so supply should continue to build and the combination of the cheaper revision and the price rise to 499 euro equating to $529 per console should see more stock moving to Europe regardless.

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Qwark on 20 December 2022
mjk45 said:
kazuyamishima said:

US dollar is stronger than the Euro, I suspect they will release a different model next year and/or will try to reduce their cost and will start shipping more units into Europe next year.

But that's just my opinion.

You may be right about next year since the drop to 6nm already means more chips per wafer and a cheaper revision in the form of my PS5 1202A so supply should continue to build and the combination of the cheaper revision and the price rise to 499 euro equating to $529 per console should see more stock moving to Europe regardless.

The EU itself is also a market which will face a massive decline this decade thanks to the energy and inflation problem Europe is facing. We'll also having to deal with the aftermath of the Ukrainian war. So aside from the euro being weak, console owners in the US will on average buy a lot more games per system. People don't understand how big of a crisis most European countries are facing. Cheap and affordable energy is like oxygen to the economy.



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ShadowLink93 on 20 December 2022

So far Switch is selling about the same as NDS in it's sixth full fiscal year (purple) with 6.68 million versus 6.69 million, it's going to be close if Switch can sell more than the 9.01 million the DS sold in Q3.



DonFerrari on 20 December 2022
mjk45 said:
Wman1996 said:

Wild to think that Sony's dominance in Europe is slipping. LTD hardware sales of the PS5 put its North American numbers above its European numbers. I suppose with the supply issues, Sony really wants to get as many units as possible to North America.
PS5's lifetime sales in Europe could end up surpassing sales in North America, but who knows.

While it may look good to be leading a resurgent Xbox in NA taking your best market for granted is a dangerous game to play and the longer it goes on the more dangerous it becomes .

Even though the PS3 did go from struggling to sell 60/70 million to eventually sneaking past the 360 with around 87 mill sold helping see Sony out of the doldrums to at least having a little wind in their sails coming into the next gen, it was mainly Europe that drove the PS4's increase something that in turn helped strengthen both the Sony and PlayStation brand image worldwide.

There may be logistical reasons to the discrepancy, but if I put money on it, it would be due to there focus not being about how the PS4's overall sales success was achieved and how to replicating but that their pride took over and retaining NA became the focus, now that's ok except they have done so at the expense of other areas.

I think it have more to do with limited inventory and selling where they believe will profit more than just beating MS on NPD.



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trunkswd on 20 December 2022

Link to the article here.

PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch 2022 Sales Comparison Charts Through December 3

Here we see data representing the global sales through to consumers and change in sales performance of the three current platforms (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch) and three legacy platforms (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo 3DS) over comparable periods for 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Also shown is the market share for each of the consoles over the same periods.

Year to Date Sales Comparison (Same Periods Covered)

Market Share (Same Periods Covered)

2019 – (Week ending January 12 to December 7)

2020 – (Week ending January 11 to December 5)

2021 – (Week ending January 9 to December 4)

2022 – (Week ending January 8 to December 3)

"Year to date" sales for 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 sales are shown in series at the top of the table and then just below a comparison of 2022 versus 2021 and 2022 versus 2020 is displayed.  This provides an easy-to-view summary of all the data.

Total Sales and Market Share for Each Year

Microsoft

  • Xbox Series X|S
    • 8.99 million units sold year-to-date
    • Up year-on-year 2,223,683 units (+32.9%)
  • Xbox One
    • 0.04 million units sold year-to-date
    • Down year-on-year 434,087 units (-92.2%)

Nintendo

  • Nintendo Switch
    • 16.49 million units sold year-to-date
    • Down year-on-year 4,462,521 units (-21.3%)

Sony

  • PlayStation 5
    • 11.26 million units sold year-to-date
    • Up year-on-year 345,100 units (3.2%)
  • PlayStation 4
    • 0.46 million units sold year-to-date
    • Down year-on-year 1,653,960 (-78.4%)


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