PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch Sales Drop - Worldwide Hardware Estimates for May 1-7 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 May 2022 / 6,817 Views
The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console with 291,028 units sold for the week ending May 7, 2022, according to VGChartz estimates. The Switch has now sold an estimated 107.66 million units lifetime.
The PlayStation 5 sold an estimated 155,598 units to bring its lifetime sales to 19.62 million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 136,953 units to bring their lifetime sales to 14.57 million units.
PS5 sales compared to the same week for the PS4 in 2015 are down by over 17,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same week for the Xbox One are up by nearly 71,000 units. PS4 sold 172,753 units for the week ending May 9, 2015 and Xbox One sales were at 66,342 units.
The PlayStation 4 sold an estimated 12,836 units, and the Xbox One sold 698 units.
Nintendo Switch sales compared to the same week a year ago are down by 57,842 units (-18.9%), while the PlayStation 5 is down by 12,196 (-7.3%) and the Xbox Series X|S is up 39,513 units (41.0%).
The PlayStation 4 is down 32,184 (-71.5%) and the Xbox One is down 17,114 units (-96.1%).
Looking at sales week-on-week, Nintendo Switch sales are down by nearly 53,000 units, PlayStation 5 sales are down by nearly 54,000 units, and Xbox Series X|S sales are down by nearly 3,000 units.
2022 year-to-date, the Nintendo Switch has sold an estimated 5.67 million units, the Xbox Series X|S has sold 2.78 million units, and the PlayStation 5 has sold 2.64 million units.
Global hardware estimates (Followed by lifetime sales):
- Switch - 291,028 (107,658,326)
- PlayStation 5 - 155,598 (19,619,874)
- Xbox Series X|S - 136,953 (14,565,738)
- PlayStation 4 - 12,836 (116,841,694)
- Xbox One - 698 (50,526,305)
- Switch - 121,034
- Xbox Series X|S - 84,432
- PlayStation 5 - 57,877
- PlayStation 4 - 7,975
- Xbox One - 558
- Switch - 78,631
- PlayStation 5- 51,491
- Xbox Series X|S - 32,515
- PlayStation 4 - 4,492
- Xbox One - 124
- Switch - 78,805
- PlayStation 5 - 39,439
- Xbox Series X|S - 15,563
- PlayStation 4 - 202
- Xbox One - 10
- Switch - 12,558
- PlayStation 5 - 6,791
- Xbox Series X|S - 4,443
- PlayStation 4 - 167
- Xbox One - 6
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 on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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All three should be going into June with their next whole number. 108m Switch, 20m PS5 and 15m Series.
Since Sony wants to sell 18 million consoles in FY23 I wonder when they will have increased numbers of consoles sold
Because to sell 18 million consoles in 12 months you need you need almost 350k consoles sold every week.
And right now it does not look like numbers are even close enough to that threshold.
I just divided 18 000 000 by 52 (number of weeks per year) and I got 350k consoles per week (346k to be precise).
If you are selling 250k per week you will only get 13 millions consoles sold per year.
Of course. But can you compensate those weak weeks with 8 weeks (november/december) of amazing sales?
I was honestly surpised when Sony annouced that optimistic target for PS5 considering that COVID is again spreading in China, and Ukraine as one of the major exporter of neon gas is currently in war.
So, we will see I guess...
But the real issue isn't demand. It's supply, right? I think the problem with the 18m figure is that if they can't produce enough consoles now, how will they produce even more later in the year?
It does seem like Sony is hoping the supply issues get resolved towards the end of the year, but that's not something anyone can count on. It's possible supply will increase, but it needs to happen if they're going to ship 18m consoles.
Ok. Sorry, I had mistakenly thought you assumed they would reach their forecast. Yeah. Then we agree. It's possible but pending.
8.5m PS5s in the holiday quarter is only possible if the chip shortages are pretty much remedied. Considering they only shipped 3.9m last holiday, I think 5-6m is probably the best to hope for this coming holiday with shortages still happening.
Definitely true that they wouldn't need a baseline of 350k, but taking the shortages into consideration I think it's unlikely they will do twice as much in the holiday quarter or more compared to regular quarters, since it's not like more resources are suddenly available during that time. We got a taste of that last year when PS5 shipments for the holiday were only around a third of its sales for the year. My guess would be they are aiming very roughly for something like 3m + 4m + 7m + 4m in the four quarters.
Regardless of the circumstances, nice to see all 3 carving out a place in the market. 300 million+ generation?
350mil maybe?
Yeah. Once you consider that, it's nearly unbeatable. But if you compare only home consoles (switch is a hybrid but more of a home console to me in the sense that it's for home use mainly due to its size), I think it could be the best selling generation yet.
Switch is a portable console, tv is a option, I use it only in dock, but Im using a portable device anyway, like I do with my laptops to replace desktop pc
If you're using it exclusively in docked mode, you're only reinforcing my point.
The purpose of the Gameboy was to play it when you couldn't play the Nintendo/super Nintendo. That's the difference to me.
It's 9th. Time and significant hardware changes compared to gen 8(Wii u and 3ds). Gen 8 started in 2011. Switch can't be in the same generation 6 years later.
Then hardware-wise it's either a way more powerful 3ds for the tv or a portable Wii u.
The whole point of the generations is to categorize things. If the switch is lumped into gen 8, it defeats the purpose of referring to generations at all. So gen 9 it is. Switch, ps5, series. Switch 2 will come out 3 years before the gen 10 contemporaries.
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