PS5 to Outsell Xbox Series X, Predicts Analyst - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 September 2020 / 4,333 Views
Microsoft and Sony are set to launch their next generation consoles, the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, this holiday season. While we don't have release dates or a launch price for either console, Ampere Analysis' research director for games Piers Harding-Rolls has released a report on his predictions for the upcoming generation.
"While the market is still substantial and likely to be consistently large at least during the next console life cycle, what has been proven over the last decade is that even with significant resources ploughed into growing adoption on a global basis, including more serious entry into a series of additional territories, substantial hardware unit sales growth for Sony and Microsoft combined has not materialised," Harding-Rolls said.
Harding-Rolls expects sales for Sony and Microsoft's next generation consoles to decline slightly compared to the current generation. Through 2024 he predicts the two consoles will sell 103 million units combined, which is down from 109 million combined units of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One through the same amount of time.
He is predicting the install base of the PS4 to be 66 million by the end of 2024, compared to 37 million sold for the Xbox Series X.
For their respected launched, he expects the PS5 to sell 4.6 million units this holiday season and the Xbox Series X to sell 3.3 million units. By the end of 2021 he predicts the Sony to have sold 17 million PS5 consoles, compared to 12 million Xbox Series X consoles sold by Microsoft.
Harding-Rolls does say Microsoft is in a much better position at the start of this generation than they were when the Xbox One launched. The reason for this is due to expansion of first-party studios, more of a focus on the console gamer, and the system launching with Halo: Infinite.
He also expects both consoles to launch at the same price with a range of $450 to $500, which is different from the current generation when the Xbox One launched at $100 more than the PS4.
However, he does add Sony's current market lead over Microsoft will help them get a head start this generation and the allegiance to the PlayStation brand will "especially hard to dismantle."
Thanks GamesIndustry.
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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No Shit, Sherlock
Constipated, Watson?
.If its this easy to be an analyst hire me pls -.-
I bet the fight will be much closer for these two than the current ending 8th gen.
Correction: The PS5 will outsell everything worldwide come this November. Like I said before Sony is ready for the smoke and the event today showed that.
The hardware speaks and this time XBOX is more powerfull. Moreover i don't believe there will be any difference in selling prices.
You know Sony outsells every generation besides the 7th right? Yes Series X has 2 TFlops more power but Sony always has the better games. And games are what sells hardware. History usually repeats itself I expect this 9th gen to be no different in Sony's favor. Microsoft has a lot to prove they're serious this time around.
If they come up with an adequate refresh and good games I predict Nintendo’s ninth generation system will also outsell Xbox.
If they come up with an adequate refresh and good games I predict Nintendo’s ninth generation system will also outsell Xbox.
It will be a closer fight than the 8th Gen, but PlayStation's lead is inevitable. It would be an upset otherwise. PlayStation has outsold every Xbox (360/PS3 is debatable, but they're basically at least dead even).
In other news, water is wet
Meanwhile, the sun will rise tomorrw.
Groundbreaking prediction here folks!
Hot take
No chance to outsell it 2:1 this time. Maybe 1.5:1 seems more real.
To the surprise of nobody.
Duh
Even when being replaced, the Rrod still persisted in the new replacements. I myself had 2 rrod's back to back, some others had 3 or more. A lot of people jumped ship because of it as well. The Xbox 360 S released in 2010, 5 years later in order to solve rrod, that's not something to brag about.
The RRoD wasn’t the only major defect in the 360... there was also E74.
