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Forums - Sales - May 2025 Circana (NPD) Thread + Predictions (Delayed to July 9)

PS5 is up 3%, Switch down 44%, Xbox down 30% (spending-wise, year-on-year).



 

 

 

 

 

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Results are out.

Units: PS5 > NS > XS
Revenue: PS5 > XS > NS

Unit sales:

  • PS5 down mid single-digit %
  • NS down low 40s %
  • XS down mid 30s %

Dollar sales:

  • PS5 up 3%
  • NS down 44%
  • XS down 30%

That would put sales for the month around:

  1. PS5: ~227K
  2. NS: ~74K
  3. XS: ~73K


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Pretty funny how 5 of the 10 biggest games in May on PlayStation belong to Microsoft



Please excuse my (probally) poor grammar

Qwark said:

Pretty funny how 5 of the 10 biggest games in May on PlayStation belong to Microsoft

Software wise Microsoft is doing great. Hardware wise they are doing terrible. 



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I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

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Qwark said:

Pretty funny how 5 of the 10 biggest games in May on PlayStation belong to Microsoft

That's what happens when a platform turns into a 3rd party publisher due to failing hardware year after year. 



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Sony fans: "There is nothing worth playing on Game Pass"

Also Sony fans:



Blood_Tears said:
Qwark said:

Pretty funny how 5 of the 10 biggest games in May on PlayStation belong to Microsoft

That's what happens when a platform turns into a 3rd party publisher due to failing hardware year after year. 

I think what this shows is people on other platforms want Microsoft's games. They just don't want to buy a gaming pc or Xbox to play them. So in my opinion they made the right call to make their games (at least most of them) available on Playstation, Switch, and soon Switch 2. People that still want to play on Xbox still have access to their games. Everyone wins.



chakkra said:

Sony fans: "There is nothing worth playing on Game Pass"

Also Sony fans:

Doom, CoD, Oblivion, Minecraft would have charted regardless if MS bought them or not. CoD and Minecraft especially have charted for how many months in a row?

The only major difference is Forza Horizon 5. But right now is a slow time so any decent game should chart above GTA V.



Farsala said:
chakkra said:

Sony fans: "There is nothing worth playing on Game Pass"

Also Sony fans:

Doom, CoD, Oblivion, Minecraft would have charted regardless if MS bought them or not. CoD and Minecraft especially have charted for how many months in a row?

The only major difference is Forza Horizon 5. But right now is a slow time so any decent game should chart above GTA V.

Err.. that's not the point. Who made these games, and who bought who (and when) is irrelevant. The point is that this games ARE in Game Pass, and yet, Sony fans love to keep repeating (nonchalantly and shamelessly) the line: "There is nothing worth playing on GP". As if we couldn't see the games that they buy every single month.



chakkra said:
Farsala said:

Doom, CoD, Oblivion, Minecraft would have charted regardless if MS bought them or not. CoD and Minecraft especially have charted for how many months in a row?

The only major difference is Forza Horizon 5. But right now is a slow time so any decent game should chart above GTA V.

Err.. that's not the point. Who made these games, and who bought who (and when) is irrelevant. The point is that this games ARE in Game Pass, and yet, Sony fans love to keep repeating (nonchalantly and shamelessly) the line: "There is nothing worth playing on GP". As if we couldn't see the games that they buy every single month.

No will to offend or even argue with you, but at least I personally disagree with you completely here.

All these games, exception being Forza, would have charted they way they've charted independently from as to whom they belonged to or would have been acquired by.

Microsoft now own them. And they publish them. And accurately portraying what happened here within the last 4 years is that from Redfall to Indiana Jones, all of these games were in on-going development by the time they were acquired.

One of some of Xbox' community members biggest tasks over the last years was or is to portray Call of Duty, Doom or Starfield as Microsoft's original IP. Which they are clearly not.

And regarding "GP has no games":

First of all, you clearly shouldn't put too much weight on what a very small but loud portion of any community is saying.

Second, objectively speaking, who is to say that the Game Pass catalogue or model MUST be appreciated by everyone?

You should allow people to decide what's best for them. And they clearly do. Wether it is subscribing to Game Pass. Or not.