Revenue alone wouldn't have been enough to know as sales are skewed heavier towards Series X in 2023 than 2022. However Mat has since confirmed the Xbox is up over 10% in units.

All 3 consoles are over 1 million for the month BTW. 

Given VGC's 2022 numbers, we have PS5 >1.464m, Switch >1.036m and <1.249m, Xbox >1.036m. I suppose the latter two must have been rather close in sales.

So PS5 not too far from PS4's 2016 numbers (1.540m), but Xbox Series still lagging a lot behind Xbox One which sold 1.519m in the USA in December 2016.

The actuals can be further constrained by the growth in revenue (~4%) so I'd guess there are more than 3.7m consoles sold in total given the promotions and all.

Mat didn't say anything about PS5 beating the best PS4 figure, so I am thinking PS5 ended up around 1.5M. I am still working on the estimates, but should have them out later today. Xbox Series X|S right now I have a hair over 1.1M, and of course Switch between the two. I am glad we at least have a minimum of what each console sold.

Great for Xbox, and considering double digits (and seems like also up dollar wise it was very healthy increase). Now we are to see how it will do 2024, and unfortunately for the other markets even the big discounts in December made little to year total.

The most the PS4 ever outsold the XBO by in the USA was 23% in 2017.

This year the PS5 sold 74% more units than the Xbox Series in the USA. That's the biggest gap between the two companies since the PS2 days. It's also bigger than any advantage the X360 ever had over the PS3 in USA annual sales.

*Estimates, CESA white paper will give us the exact NPD/Circana numbers for 2023 later this year

Top Three Selling Platforms in the U.S per Calendar Year (millions of units)
Note: 1987 - 1993 is data found on Video Game Sales Wiki and may not be completely accurate, 1994 onwards is from NPD

1987
NES - 3.00
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1988
NES - 5.00
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1989
NES - 9.00
GB - 1.50
GEN - 0.50

1990
NES - 7.20
GB - 3.90
GEN - 1.00

1991
NES - 4.40
GB - 2.10
SNES - 2.00

1992
SNES - 4.90
GEN - 4.50
GB - 3.20

1993
GEN - 5.50
SNES - 4.40
GB - 3.60

1994
GEN - 3.27
SNES - 2.82
GB - 2.22

1995
SNES - 2.32
GB - 1.93
GEN - 1.89

1996
PS1 - 1.99
N64 - 1.97
GB - 1.68

1997
PS1 - 5.05
N64 - 4.49
GB - 2.10

1998
PS1 - 7.11
N64 - 4.14
GB - 1.92

1999
GBC - 6.45
PS1 - 5.84
N64 - 3.54

2000
GBC - 6.82
PS1 - 3.25
N64 - 2.53

2001
PS2 - 6.18
GBA - 4.75
GBC - 2.95

2002
PS2 - 8.39
GBA - 6.94
XB - 3.17

2003
GBA - 7.78
PS2 - 6.31
GCN - 3.27

2004
GBA - 7.08
PS2 - 4.68
XB - 4.01

2005
PS2 - 5.51
GBA - 4.37
PSP - 3.63

2006
NDS - 5.32
PS2 - 4.84
X360 - 3.90

2007
NDS - 8.43
Wii - 6.29
X360 - 4.62

2008
Wii - 10.17
NDS - 9.95
X360 - 4.74

2009
NDS - 11.19
Wii - 9.59
X360 - 4.77

2010
NDS - 8.58
Wii - 7.07
X360 - 6.76

2011
X360 - 7.28
Wii - 4.53
PS3 - 4.52

2012
X360 - 5.30
3DS - 3.63
PS3 - 3.41

2013
3DS - 3.81
X360 - 3.07
PS3 - 2.18

2014
PS4 - 4.68
XBO - 4.37
3DS - 2.57

2015
PS4 - 5.72
XBO - 4.93
3DS - 2.40

2016
PS4 - 5.10
XBO - 4.73
3DS - 2.49

2017
PS4 - 5.42
NSW - 4.87
XBO - 4.28

2018
NSW - 5.64
PS4 - 5.29
XBO - 4.36

2019
NSW - 6.48
PS4 - 3.83
XBO - 3.04

2020
NSW - 8.98
PS4 - 2.07
PS5 - 1.96

2021
NSW - 7.61
PS5 - 4.28
XBS - 3.73

2022
NSW - 5.83
PS5 - 5.66
XBS - 4.48

2023
PS5 - 6.83*
NSW - 4.80*
XBS - 3.88*