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Forums - Sales Discussion - UK monthly sales Oct 2024

PS5- up 27% month on month

         Down 18% year on year

Switch- up 13% month on month

              Down 18% year on year

Xbox- Down- 7% month on month

            Down- 17% year on year

"Sales of PS5 consoles rose 27% month-on-month but was 18% down year-on-year. Switch sales increased 13% month-on-month but dropped 18% year-on-year, while Xbox Series consoles fell 7% month-on-month and dropped nearly 17% year-on-year."

Position Title

1 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Activision Blizzard)

2 EA Sports FC 25 (EA)

3 Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (Bandai Namco)

4 Undisputed (Plaion)

5 Silent Hill 2 (Konami)

6 Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)

7 Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)

8 Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Pullup Entertainment)

9 Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo)*

10 Sonic X Shadows Generations (Sega)

Source-https://www.gamesindustry.biz/dragon-ball-and-undisputed-deliver-big-sales-in-october-as-call-of-duty-claims-no1-uk-monthly-report



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PS5 sales will be very good in October. If Sony has a great year-end event in December to celebrate its 30th anniversary, they will have a great sales year



It is coming up to four years since release. Sony will not be getting anywhere near a 100 million PS5 units sold.



Random_Matt said:

It is coming up to four years since release. Sony will not be getting anywhere near a 100 million PS5 units sold.

What are you expecting LT? I think its kind of wild to think they will fall far short of 100m when by the end of next year they'll be near 80m and many of their biggest developers still wouldn't have released an original PS5 game yet (ND/SantaMonica/Guerilla) and no price cuts.



Pretty good results from all three. NSW keeping up with PS5 & XBSX despite being in its twilight year, and PS5/XBSX YoY drops appear minimal. This is esp impressive for PS5 being that SM2 released in October last year, slightly less impressive for XBSX since CoD:BO6 released on GP this year & nothing came to XBSX during October last year.



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Otter said:
Random_Matt said:

It is coming up to four years since release. Sony will not be getting anywhere near a 100 million PS5 units sold.

What are you expecting LT? I think its kind of wild to think they will fall far short of 100m when by the end of next year they'll be near 80m and many of their biggest developers still wouldn't have released an original PS5 game yet (ND/SantaMonica/Guerilla) and no price cuts.

Maybe I am seriously underestimating, but I was thinking PS3 numbers. I guess it also depends on when Sony releases PS6.



Random_Matt said:
Otter said:

What are you expecting LT? I think its kind of wild to think they will fall far short of 100m when by the end of next year they'll be near 80m and many of their biggest developers still wouldn't have released an original PS5 game yet (ND/SantaMonica/Guerilla) and no price cuts.

Maybe I am seriously underestimating, but I was thinking PS3 numbers. I guess it also depends on when Sony releases PS6.

They're at 65m shipped as of September, will be closer to 70m by end of this year. Something would seriously need to go wrong for them to not ship and sell through another 30m in the next 4 years. Thats an average of 7.5m each year.

At worst they will fall just short of 100m if its never given a price cut, Switch 2 steals its late life sales and its quickly replaced with a more affordable Series S style PS6 model in 2028. 



Considering how sales have been looking this is a decent hold year-on-year for all three. 



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Random_Matt said:

It is coming up to four years since release. Sony will not be getting anywhere near a 100 million PS5 units sold.

Let's say the PS6 launches in 2027. 

Do you expect less than 10M shipped every year from FY25 to FY27? Because the PS5 would have to fall a lot harder than that to not get anywhere near 100M lol.



Otter said:

What are you expecting LT? I think its kind of wild to think they will fall far short of 100m when by the end of next year they'll be near 80m and many of their biggest developers still wouldn't have released an original PS5 game yet (ND/SantaMonica/Guerilla) and no price cuts.

Near 80M by end of next year ? They will be probably be at almost 70M with the holidays this year .. 10M is too small number for next year. It won't drop so much. We will have the first full year for the Pro, and a lot of games, and maybe a price cut. PS5 should do at least 15M next year. So it will be at around 85M with the next year's numbers. I personally expect GTA 6 to launch in 2026, and therefore 2026 will be another year of at least 15M, the game will help stop the decline in sales. So 100M by end of 2026. From there on it only depends on when the next gen is coming, is it 2027 ? 2028 ? or 2030 as some rumors suggest ? The sales can finish as low as 110-115M when everything is finished, and they can finish as high as even 150M if the next gen get late release like 2029 or 2030.