Worldwide Hardware Estimates for the Week Ending January 18 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 22 January 2020 / 4,855 Views
The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console worldwide with 311,162 consoles sold for the week ending January 18, according to VGChartz estimates.
The PlayStation 4 was the second best-selling console with sales of 156,296 consoles sold, followed by the Xbox One with 46,683 units, and the Nintendo 3DS with 3,613 units.
Switch sales compared to the same week a year ago are up 67,532 units. PS4 sales are down 71,537 units, the Xbox One is down 12,673 units and the 3DS is down 35,628 units.
Global hardware estimates (Followed by lifetime sales):
- Switch - 311,162 (51,054,890)
- PlayStation 4 - 156,296 (106,547,980)
- Xbox One - 46,683 (46,146,173)
- 3DS - 3,613 (75,013,555)
- Switch - 94,798
- PlayStation 4 - 42,145
- Xbox One - 30,057
- 3DS - 1,433
- PlayStation 4 - 79,419
- Nintendo Switch - 75,684
- Xbox One - 13,702
- 3DS - 1,267
- Switch - 132,930
- PlayStation 4 - 27,865
- Xbox One - 1,194
- 3DS - 821
- Switch - 7,750
- PlayStation 4 - 6,867
- Xbox One - 1,730
- 3DS - 92
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Wow, with a 300K weekly baseline Nintendo should reach that 20M within the fiscal year ending March. Maybe they already have their 18M forecast.
The Switch's sales this week is up 21% from the same week last year, this is showing that the Switch momentum is far from slowing down and the Switch still not at it's peak yet. This is amazing for a system that's nearly 3 years old to still be growing in sales year after year when the Switch hasn't even had it's first real price cut yet. At this rate I believe the Switch will outsell the Wii.
Wow, PS4 is already lower in the 3rd week of the year than it got in any week last year. Xbox got to 37k last year, so it still has a ways to fall before it reaches new lows. Meanwhile Switch had only 2 weeks with 300k+ before the holiday season last year, but it's already past that this year. It reached its new baseline by this week last year and kept it until the spring doldrums, but this spring Switch has Animal Crossing, so it might not have that same lull period. If 300k is its new baseline, this year won't just be over last, it'll be a pretty big jump, potentially on the order of 5+ million, a 20% jump. That'd be 26 million units, it would pass the 3DS by the end of the year.
It's crazy to think that the switch only recently crossed Xbone in sales and that PS4 still outsells switch in europe
I find it interesting though how the 6 year old PS4 outsold the hot switch in Europe, Europe might be the region that keeps the PS4's lifetime sales above the Switch when all said and done.
