1. PS5- Up 25% over February. Down 9% over March 2023.

2. Switch- up 20% over February. Down 20% over March 2023.

3. xbox- up 19% over February. Dwon 18% over March 2023.

UK GSD March 2024 Top 10 (Digital and Physical)

Position Title  

1 Helldivers 2 (Sony)

2 EA Sports FC 24 (EA)

3 Dragon's Dogma 2 (Capcom)

4 WWE 2K24 (2K Games)

5 Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth (Square Enix)

6 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft)

7 Command & Conquer: Generals (EA)

8 Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)

9 Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)

10 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (EA)

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/helldivers-2-drives-uk-march-game-sales-up-26-uk-monthly-charts

Other new releases-
Rise of the Ronin at 21
Princess peach at 30

Not a bad hold overall for the PS5. It was massively up last year due to supply constraints in 2022. Helldivers is probably helping.

2023 YoY sales vs. 2022 were Switch down over 25%, Xbox down 18%.

dropping just 9% compared to last year is not bad for the ps5. I believe people were very pessimistic about the PS5 this year. I believe that the pa5 will still sell more than 70 million lifetime units by December

For all intent and purposes, they had 117K consoles sold in March. The tally is down 15% from last year's March. 

These numbers aren't too impressive when other markets like Japan can sell that amount in a single week sometimes. 

Also, the pessimistic approach to the PS5 people had were moreso based on the last financial sharings from Sony where they downed their forecast and announced a lesser Q4 in terms of shipped consoles. 

It goes to say, that the sold to consumer numbers isn't the problem here but the shipped numbers which might have suffered because of lack of demand last quarter and over shipping. 

The UK is half the population and Japan has been exporting a lot of consoles these past years though (a Switch OLED being a mere $250 there and even after two price increases the disc PS5 is just $440).

Any PlayStation or Switch being sold in Europe is probably netting at least twice the profit of Japan and its unofficial exports.

European charts are out. As for the hardware numbers. The total of consoles sold is 27% lower than last year's March.

PS5 is down the most by 31% but maintains a comfortable over the Switch and Xbox.

So the UK numbers were outliers to the PS5 decline people expected.

Helldivers 2 and ps5 are doing very well in the UK