PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch 2022 Sales Comparison Charts Through April 23 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 May 2022 / 6,378 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 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. 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)
2019 – (Week ending January 12 to April 27)
2020 – (Week ending January 11 to April 25)
2021 – (Week ending January 9 to April 24)
2022 – (Week ending January 8 to April 23)
"Year to date" sales for 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 sales are shown in series at the top of the table and then just below a comparison of 2022 versus 2021 and 2022 versus 2020 is displayed. This provides an easy-to-view summary of all the data.
Total Sales and Market Share for Each Year
Microsoft
- Xbox Series X|S – Up Year-on-Year 844,168 (+50.1%)
- Xbox One – Down Year-on-Year 346,092 (-93.1%)
Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch - Down Year-on-Year 1,968,023 (-27.7%)
Sony
- PlayStation 5 – Down Year-on-Year 1,250,239 (-37.5%)
- PlayStation 4 – Down Year-on-Year 862,539 (-77.2%)
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I feel like it's easy to look at the switch and feel as though it's selling poorly year over year. But compared to 2019, it's still doing quite well.
Pretty much is all falling into place as we expected. 3 years of increasing sales, 2 peak years, and 3 years on the downward slope. Then the successor. 22, 23, and 24 should mirror 19, 18, and 17 nicely. Early 2025 for the replacement.
As long as there's no hardware announcement until late 2024, I still expect the sales to go down at the rate they went up. The market is getting saturated but the games are still coming. And a price drop is always a possibility, but I have a feeling that won't happen until the last year.
Switch has a stronger fall lineup than 2019 already and has the chance to be more aggressive bundle/sale wise. The full lineup isn't revealed yet and there could still be a revision on the way. Also, Switch lite didn't perform as well as we anticipated in 2019, it catch up in 2020 with the pandemic and stock problems for other models. 2019 was at around 20 millions, so Switch should be able to do around the same or a little more this year, looking at 21-22 millions imo. I doubt it will go way under 18 millions next year and 12 the other. That puts it at around 155 millions if it stops completely after and 22-18-12 is a pretty accurate pattern with how much life Switch still has at the moment. I really think 160 millions is the current target for the Switch's trajectory.
It's an awkward comparison as the 3 previous years were all weighted so differently. 2019 Switch excelled toward the end of the year (Lite launch) 2020 was focussed more on the middle period (Apr-Jun) & 2021 was better early on as the OLED announcement leeched sales until October.
Due to it's age it will probably follow a similar trajectory this year as 2021, just not quite as harsh a drop-off in summer as there is no "wait till new model", so yeah similar overall sales to 2019
