Year on Year Sales & Market Share Charts - June 30, 2018 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 July 2018 / 4,726 Views
Here we see data representing the global sales through to consumers and change in sales performance of the four home consoles and four handhelds over comparable periods for 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. Also shown is the market share for each of the consoles over the same periods.
Year to Date Sales Comparison (Same Periods Covered)
Market Share (Same Periods Covered)
2015 – (Week ending January 10 to July 4)
2016 – (Week ending January 9 to Jul y 2)
2017 – (Week ending January 7 to July 1)
2018 – (Week ending January 6 to June 30)
Total Sales and Market Share for Each Year
"Year to date" sales for 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 sales are shown in series at the top of the table and then just below a comparison of 2018 versus 2017 and 2018 versus 2016 is displayed. This provides an easy-to-view summary of all the data.
Microsoft
- Xbox One – Up Year-on-Year 308,178 (14.9%)
Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch - Up Year-on-Year 998,890 (24.0%)
- Nintendo 3DS – Down Year-on-Year 732,880 (-32.5%)
Sony
- PlayStation 4 – Down Year-on-Year 866,723 (-11.1%)
- PlayStation Vita – Down Year-on-Year 329,001 (-69.6%)
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That PS4 can be down nearly a million YTD and still have 48% market share is really quite amazing. Looking at the YoY numbers we can see that the PS4 is down 1.3% in yearly marketshare compared to 2017. We see that the the Switch is up 3.6% and interestingly the Xbox One is down 2.4%.
The reason this is so interesting is because it means that even though the PS4 has the most to lose share wise, the Switch is taking more market from Xbox than the PS4. This is really interesting and at first seems counter-intuitive. The Xbox is really selling poorly.
YoY growth or loss is meaningless unless you have proper context to put it in. You can sell 2 units and be up 100% if you only sold 1 last year. YoY growth is only relevant when you apply the real numbers to them as a portion of the entire market..
It’s crazy that PS4 is the only console down YoY, but is still dominating. I think with BO4, RDR2, and Spider Man, it could potentially have a better holiday season than 2017.
