Year on Year Sales & Market Share Charts - July 20, 2019 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 August 2019 / 3,080 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)
2016 – (Week ending January 9 to July 24)
2017 – (Week ending January 7 to July 22)
2018 – (Week ending January 6 to July 21)
2018 – (Week ending January 5 to July 20)
Total Sales and Market Share for Each Year
"Year to date" sales for 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 sales are shown in series at the top of the table and then just below a comparison of 2019 versus 2018 and 2018 versus 2017 is displayed. This provides an easy-to-view summary of all the data.
Microsoft
- Xbox One – Down Year-on-Year 747,312 (-30.5%)
Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch - Up Year-on-Year 1,051,888 (19.2%)
- Nintendo 3DS – Down Year-on-Year 789,891 (-48.7%)
Sony
- PlayStation 4 – Down Year-on-Year 999,505 (-13.1%)
- PlayStation Vita – Down Year-on-Year 125,505 (-80.2%)
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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PS4 still leading the way in its 6th year. Amazing!
So the whole time switch was behind PS4 sales for the year and everyone here though that PS4 behind switch sales .. and it turn out it wasn't true was it
we were misleaded about the PS4 sales since the beginning of the year .. with difference reaching 1M down 1 week ago ..
But are they only doing rough projection from Japanese data which are the only available one ? I start to wonder know if we should consider a tolerance of +/-10% or +/-20% in every HW estimation published. Still weird that we have around 3 millions of PS4 on transit and only 1,8 for the Switch.
We aren't trying to mislead anyone. We get a small fraction of data from around the world and our algorithm extrapolates the data. Once that is done I can go in and make changes to the data and can go back to previous hardware figures and make adjustments when necessary. We've been trying to me more transparent by saying with provide estimates.
If we could get track 100% of the data from every region that would be great. We try our best to make our estimates as accurate as possible. Since the PS4 is down in the US and Japan the algorithm had a similar drop in Europe. With Sony's shipped figures it became obvious the PS4 in Europe was still going strong.
@trunkswd I just got an idea for new chart from you comment .. comparisons on every platform year on year but for the different markets. for example ps4 2019 vs 2018 (for the same period of time) but for US only, and then for europe only for example, and the same for xbox one and maybe switch
Where are the game sales charts? I loved them.
They are not published anymore because the possible estimation was becoming more and more irrelevant with now more than 35% of the game sales being from download, and these sales are not trackable. So VGCHARTZ only now publishes confirmed sales data from games publishers.
It was so good and enjoyable when you go in the site in 2010, or 2011 or 2012, it was so interesting, every game sales were there, the console sales were there and were most exact I think, it had more thinks overall and the generation was much more interesting with PS3 and 360
