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Switch Sales Climb, PS5 Sales Drop Below 100K - Worldwide Hardware Estimates for May 8-14

Switch Sales Climb, PS5 Sales Drop Below 100K - Worldwide Hardware Estimates for May 8-14 - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 May 2022 / 7,592 Views

The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console with 316,866 units sold for the week ending May 14, 2022, according to VGChartz estimates. The Switch has now sold an estimated 107.97 million units lifetime.

The Xbox Series X|S sold 120,791 units to bring their lifetime sales to 14.69 million units. The PlayStation 5 sold an estimated 98,149 units to bring its lifetime sales to 19.72 million units.

There was very little PS5 stock in the US and Japan, while there was little Xbox Series X stock in the US for the week. This is the main reason for the drop in sales week-on-week.

PS5 sales compared to the same week for the PS4 in 2015 are down by nearly 62,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same week for the Xbox One are up by nearly 58,000 units. PS4 sold 159,781 units for the week ending May 16, 2015 and Xbox One sales were at 63,083 units.

The PlayStation 4 sold an estimated 11,489 units, and the Xbox One sold 619 units.

Nintendo Switch sales compared to the same week a year ago are down by 72m432 units (-18.6%), while the PlayStation 5 is down by 122,048 (-55.4%) and the Xbox Series X|S is up 22,951 units (23.5%).

The PlayStation 4 is down 33,045 units (-74.2%) year-over-year and the Xbox One is down 16,900 units (-96.5%).

Looking at sales week-on-week, Nintendo Switch sales are up by over 26,000 units, PlayStation 5 sales are down by over 57,000 units, and Xbox Series X|S sales are down by over 16,000 units.

2022 year-to-date, the Nintendo Switch has sold an estimated 5.98 million units, the Xbox Series X|S has sold 2.90 million units, and the PlayStation 5 has sold 2.74 million units.

PS5 Sales, Xbox Series X and S Sales, Switch Sales

Global hardware estimates (Followed by lifetime sales):

  1. Switch - 316,866 (107,974,872)
  2. Xbox Series X|S - 120,791 (14,686,559)
  3. PlayStation 5 - 98,149 (19,717,813)
  4. PlayStation 4 - 11,489 (116,867,080)
  5. Xbox One - 619 (50,526,916)
Americas (US, Canada, Latin America) hardware estimates:
  1. Switch - 128,244
  2. Xbox Series X|S - 68,647
  3. PlayStation 5 - 33,197
  4. PlayStation 4 - 6,933
  5. Xbox One - 503
Europe hardware estimates:
  1. Switch - 80,493
  2. PlayStation 5- 45,080
  3. Xbox Series X|S - 32,014
  4. PlayStation 4 - 4,236
  5. Xbox One - 101
Asia (Japan, mainland Asia, Middle East) hardware estimates:
  1. Switch - 94,308
  2. Xbox Series X|S - 15,916
  3. PlayStation 5 - 12,955
  4. PlayStation 4 - 162
  5. Xbox One - 9
Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) hardware estimates:
  1. Switch - 13,821
  2. PlayStation 5 - 6,917
  3. Xbox Series X|S - 4,214
  4. PlayStation 4 - 158
  5. 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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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16 Comments
2zosteven (on 23 May 2022)

DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN, series X/S in Japan!

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2zosteven 2zosteven (on 23 May 2022)

and the switch smoked Series X/S and PS5 combined

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Ninhut (on 23 May 2022)

ok there are delivery problems but not even 100k that's sad

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jvmkdg trunkswd (on 23 May 2022)

i don't understand forbiden west ranked first in the uk signaling an increase in stock

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Maynard_Tool jvmkdg (on 23 May 2022)

You clearly don’t understand, because every week you keep posting the same thing, and people always give you a reason. Yet here you go, different week but same old comment

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darthv72 jvmkdg (on 23 May 2022)

Keep in mind that VGC is usually behind real time by about a week or two. So the data about HFW is more current than this report and will reflect in next weeks numbers.

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darthv72 (on 23 May 2022)

XBO just keeps... holding... on

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y2jarmyofficial darthv72 (on 23 May 2022)

Yep holding,hopefully Microsoft/ Bethesda will announced something they can launch this year to fill the void starfield and redfall have left

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DroidKnight XtremeBG (on 23 May 2022)

I'll take some of that action. It won't break 50,000 for the year. 3 weeks avy control?

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MastermindPT (on 27 May 2022)

Here in Portugal you can find a lot of XBox X on the shelves, but never saw a single PS5 on shelves or even on display, every big retailer has sold out warnings. It's almost impossible to get one since launch.

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AdvanceWebSolutions (on 24 May 2022)

I'm lucky I got a PS5 by accident but unless they fix the shortage issues it's too frustrating to by one. When places aren't even taking preorders and people just assume they are always out of stock what do you do really?

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