PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch Sales Comparison Charts Through November 27 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 December 2021 / 4,871 Views
Here we see data representing the global sales through to consumers and change in sales performance of the three current platforms (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch) and three legacy platforms (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo 3DS) over comparable periods for 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. 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)
2018 – (Week ending January 13 to December 1)
2019 – (Week ending January 12 to November 30)
2020 – (Week ending January 11 to November 28)
2021 – (Week ending January 9 to November 27)
"Year to date" sales for 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 sales are shown in series at the top of the table and then just below a comparison of 2021 versus 2020 and 2021 versus 2019 is displayed. This provides an easy-to-view summary of all the data.
Total Sales and Market Share for Each Year
Microsoft
- Xbox One – Down Year-on-Year 1,912,313 (-71.4%)
- Xbox Series X|S – Up Year-on-Year 5,339,687 (+311.7%)
Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch - Down Year-on-Year 1,748,008 (-8.0%)
- Nintendo 3DS – Down Year-on-Year 382,410 (-91.9%)
Sony
- PlayStation 4 – Down Year-on-Year 5,605,266 (-73.1%)
- PlayStation 5 – Up Year-on-Year 8,541,149 (+303.2%)
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Yas, EDIT 20.0.7 million for the Switch so far, and we still have a whole December month to go, this still gonna be epic
20,07 actually
Same, qame, different, but still the same
It looks like Switch will stay around 25M this year. Good results, although it raises a lot of doubts about what 2022 will be like, and if it will be able to stay above 20M.
Nice to see Xbox S so close to PS5. Competition will be good for both of them this gen. We can already tell with Sony working on a Gamepass competitor. Xbox is finally getting some big exclusive and it will continue to show into next year. Big games for the 3 consoles are on the way and this is what's exciting.
On the other corner there's the Switch reaching 20 millions with 5 more weeks to go. It should end up at around 26 millions this year which great. No DS could be achieve from the shortage, but this is still Wii peak level numbers and i feel like we don't realize that.
Many ways Nintendo could stabilize the sales next year, it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
So far I am right that Switch can hold the 50 % market share in 2021 (I made that prediction last year).
Should be pretty safe bet at this point. PS5+XSX will combine for about 23.5m, Switch should be over 25m.
I think 8 million for 2021 for Xbox, and around 14ish million for PlayStation seems like a reasonable prediction at this point? All 3 will probably still see strong sales in the run up to Christmas
One thing I wonder is if there will be a huge post holiday drop off like you have seen in most years. I think there is still going to be a drop off, but maybe not as extreme as before if demand is still really high
Not sure why you'd think Xbox would sell only 1M more for the rest of the year while PS5 sells nearly 3M more. Assuming Xbox can keep up Series S production like they did for BF, XBS should sell pretty close to PS5 the rest of the year.
My numbers definitely could be off. I think I just remember hearing somewhere that Sony was targeting 14 million units for 2021. Maybe I’m understating Xbox’s sales potential
To your second point, I don't think we'll see a huge drop-off due to the high degree of pent-up demand. You have people with a PS5 who're looking still for a Series X, people with a Series X still looking for a PS5, people with a PS5 who will decide to get a Series S for Microsoft exclusives, and people who're holding off for a specific current-gen console that they haven't found yet. We've never before had this much pent-up demand after consoles have gone through two full holiday seasons.
