It seems a lot of people have trouble with using the easy and nice hardware by date tool here on the website.

Last year November sales were till 26th of November, which included Black Friday and the weekend after that. Last year Switch was down massively, compared to 2022. Which is the same case now when comparing it to 2022. But comparing it to 2023 US sales, sales were flat. The pure difference in numbers is 17k for this November, however this November the data is till 30th of November, last year the data was till November 26th. So it's not really that up year on year. Yes it's 4 weeks again, but 4 days where the sales are stronger were left out of last year's data for November, and are here for this November. If it were till end of November sales would probably be a bit down. Of course the final result is still very good for Switch, but it's not really up year over year when you take that into account, and also the fact that the sale offers were bigger for the system compared to last year. Also Xbox is a lot weaker, this also contribute to some chunk of the sales going to the Switch (of course most of them goes to the PS5).

However I expect December to be down compared to last year, since it has been down all year but November. But that is not something bad of course, it's normal for 8th year old console. People are getting so hyped up, it says up year on year, that they forget to make the calculations, and react like it's 20% up year on year for the whole holiday. 17k is not up, 17k difference is flat. It's so negligible it can't be really counted as up year on year. It's essentially flat because of the biggest sale offers to date for the Switch and the difference in the tracking dates. December will be from 1st unlike from 26th November like last year. Last year Switch did 1.3M in US for December.

I think Sony won't resign console market because it's thier main market and realising games on pc is just a better way to earn some money from games that already been realised on ps5 before. They are way more traditional like nintendo then Xbox.

Xbox Series is in line with my expectations but the other two significantly exceeded them which is nice to see. Both of them seem like they're gonna end the year with a bang.

Where did you get this from? PC gaming has grown a lot in the past several years and is bigger than Playstation as a platform. If Sony overprices the PS6 then some people will absolutely switch to PC due to that.

Not quite. God of War 2018 and Horizon Zero Dawn have both been at least as successful as Spider-Man 2018 on PC and Ghost of Tsushima has had a strong start with it having the highest peak concurrent player count among the single player games and having good legs so far. Days Gone has also done well though there is a big gap with how much they've sold on Playstation. A lot of that will be due to them releasing there first and what you said towards the end however.

Xbox Series is in line with my expectations but the other two significantly exceeded them which is nice to see. Both of them seem like they're gonna end the year with a bang.

Where did you get this from? PC gaming has grown a lot in the past several years and is bigger than Playstation as a platform. If Sony overprices the PS6 then some people will absolutely switch to PC due to that.

Not quite. God of War 2018 and Horizon Zero Dawn have both been at least as successful as Spider-Man 2018 on PC and Ghost of Tsushima has had a strong start with it having the highest peak concurrent player count among the single player games and having good legs so far. Days Gone has also done well though there is a big gap with how much they've sold on Playstation. A lot of that will be due to them releasing there first and what you said towards the end however.

If i look at PC sales, there is litteraly nobody asking for so called "high end PCs" in te store i work. Console games sell much better, its where the money is made. There is a reason for example Nintendo do not release games on PC. Nobody wants to bother with electronics who crash all the time and need to load/ install more than you can actually play. I would never even touch such a crappy device. I never needed it. Also not in my work!

Sony is throwing in their own windows on pc with the forced PSN, which is why Ragnarok had less concurrent player counts than GOW 2018

@trunkswd

The Europe estimates seem to be quite challenging this time, huh?

No blame, of course, because it is absolutely incomprehensible how they could push the Black Friday week completely into December.

One of our sources of data is the monthly report from GamesIndustry, which has yet to be released. Rather annoying as the holidays are next week and I was hoping to take it easy for a couple of weeks. But nothing I can do about it. Hopefully the report drops later today or on Monday. 

I don't know which time zone you're working in, but here in Europe it's almost hitting 5:30pm. 

Seems like there won't be any new sales reports dropping before Christmas, quite possibly not even before next week.

It's a bit baffling how November sales data seem so hard to get or be processed, since it's already 23 days past it.

I admit I feel like a little brat saying this, but I guess only because I don't know/see the reasoning behind. If they told me, it'd be different.

Well, anyway.

Thanks alot for pumping out Japan and Americas data at least, that's always appreciated.

Happy Christmas to you and everyone else, I cautiously think it could be expected that November data won't be out there even until January.