
Switch Sales Top 108 Million - Worldwide Hardware Estimates for May 15-21 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 30 May 2022 / 7,154 ViewsThe Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console with 294,158 units sold for the week ending May 21, 2022, according to VGChartz estimates. The Switch has now sold an estimated 108.22 million units lifetime.
The Xbox Series X|S sold 131,047 units to bring their lifetime sales to 14.81 million units. The PlayStation 5 sold an estimated 123,841 units to bring its lifetime sales to 19.83 million units.
PS5 sales compared to the same week for the PS4 in 2015 are down by over 69,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same week for the Xbox One are up by nearly 59,000 units. PS4 sold 193,161 units for the week ending May 23, 2015 and Xbox One sales were at 72,117 units.
The PlayStation 4 sold an estimated 10,970 units, and the Xbox One sold 604 units.
Nintendo Switch sales compared to the same week a year ago are down by 78,072 units (-21.0%), while the PlayStation 5 is down by 56,612 (-31.4%) and the Xbox Series X|S is up 25,105 units (23.7%).
The PlayStation 4 is down 31,740 units (-74.3%) year-over-year and the Xbox One is down 16,585 units (-96.5%).
Looking at sales week-on-week, Nintendo Switch sales are up by over 3,000 units, PlayStation 5 sales are up by over 30,000 units, and Xbox Series X|S sales are up by nearly 16,000 units.
2022 year-to-date, the Nintendo Switch has sold an estimated 6.22 million units, the Xbox Series X|S has sold 3.02 million units, and the PlayStation 5 has sold 2.86 million units.
Global hardware estimates (Followed by lifetime sales):
- Switch - 294,158 (108,215,944)
- Xbox Series X|S - 131,047 (14,807,426)
- PlayStation 5 - 123,841 (19,831,274)
- PlayStation 4 - 10,970 (116,892,714)
- Xbox One - 604 (50,527,521)
- Switch - 108,150
- Xbox Series X|S - 75,428
- PlayStation 5 - 37,078
- PlayStation 4 - 6,531
- Xbox One - 494
- Switch - 80,422
- PlayStation 5- 49,272
- Xbox Series X|S - 33,911
- PlayStation 4 - 4,130
- Xbox One - 95
- Switch - 91,947
- PlayStation 5 - 29,751
- Xbox Series X|S - 17,407
- PlayStation 4 - 157
- Xbox One - 9
- Switch - 13,639
- PlayStation 5 - 7,740
- Xbox Series X|S - 4,301
- PlayStation 4 - 158
- Xbox One - 6
VGChartz Methodology: Hardware estimates are based on retail sampling and trends in individual countries, which are then extrapolated to represent the wider region. This typically allows us to produce figures that end up being within 10% of the actual totals.
This data is regularly compared against official shipment figures released by the console manufacturers and figures estimated by regional trackers with greater market coverage than ourselves. We then update our own estimates to bring them into line with those figures. This can result in frequent changes often within a short space of time, but we feel it's important to prioritise accuracy over consistency.
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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It's amazing how well Xbox continues to sell, despite no major exclusives on the horizon, although i expect to see Forza Motorsport in 2 weeks, with a winter release date
Actually I'm surprised it didn't sell more, it should be selling out right now. I don't need one as I have a powerful PC but the upgraded graphics for older games, the great backwards compatibility, games such as Ori, Halo, Forza, the incredible value you get is crazy, you get a machine that is almost as powerful as my 1700 dollars PC, and a much smaller design, and comes with a controller which on PC that would be another 60 dollars on top, also 4K bluray which on PC another 50 or 60 dollars on top.
All of this for only 500 dollars, my graphics card alone was more than that. My processor alone was 450 dollars., basically only the processor and GPU was over 1000 dollars and here you get a full machine almost as powerful for 500.
Then you have gamepass which is a good way of getting access to many games without paying the typical ps5 70 dollars per game.
I expected the xbox to sell out, I am amazed that its been available on amazon for weeks now, I checked several times out of curiosity. But I understand the PS5 will be always more desirable due to the fact it plays all ps4 games, and there's over 100 million of ps4 players ready to upgrade who don't want to lose their games. In my case I went ps5 to the simple fact I already have a PC and also the adaptive triggers improve the experience in many games which Ill buy the ps5 version instead of PC just for that.
Microsoft should have planned this generation better, series S will be a disappointment as its not powerful enough and you'll quickly get out of storage, they should have gone series X without the disc drive like sony did. Also where's the single player games, we were promised the amazing starfield only to be delayed to next year, then if you're not a fan of arcade racers like me, you only have halo for 18 months into the generation. For all the money Microsoft spent I am disappointed with them when Sony keeps launching great games, we had already Kena, Sifu, spiderman, demon souls, sackboy, gt7, final fantasy 7 remake, a huge update to ghost of tsushima, and my favourite Death stranding, deathloop which won game of the year, and the fantastic horizon forbidden west, my second favourite this generation, Returnal, the very fun and pretty ratchet and clank, even astro playroom was fun.
Microsoft needs to wake up quick, all we get from them is promises but nothing to show for gaming wise.
The switch staying in the ballpark of 300,000 every week is pretty remarkable.
I wonder if we get a week this quarter where both PlayStation and Xbox dip below 100k. It’s kind of reminding me of the early days of 7th gen with how poor some of these shipments are
Series S is the only 9th Gen system I have ever seen in the wild. I have never seen a PS5 or a Series X.
Even that’s iffy. Switch display cases are bare in a lot of stores in my area. I haven’t seen a lot of OLED models,
XBOX again in Japan, should easily past 360 numbers there.
That’s for all of Asia, not just Japan.
Seems like 300k is difficult to hold for Switch this year. We already had a couple of weeks below 300k. Maybe Mario Strikers helps a bit, but I'm not sure about that.
Series S was Best selling co sole in the UK last week :)
Still annoying that all PS5 consoles are bought up by scalpers. They are still over priced on ebay. I trade in used games and consoles and is becoming that way that when I pick up the xbox one s or x, they owners selling it have upgraded to the xbox series s. And it's the same story, not getting their hands on the ps5 so they are settling for the series s. That's fine if there was any value in this series s as they aren't worth purchasing 2nd hand. They have become cheaper to get than the xbox series x.