PS5 Sales Top 20M, XS Sales Near 15M - Worldwide Hardware Estimates for May 22-28 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 June 2022 / 6,647 Views
The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console with 285,220 units sold for the week ending May 28, 2022, according to VGChartz estimates. The Switch has now sold an estimated 108.47 million units lifetime.
The PlayStation 5 sold an estimated 167,565 units to bring its lifetime sales to 20.01 million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 127,922 units to bring their lifetime sales to 14.94 million units.
PS5 sales compared to the same week for the PS4 in 2015 are up by nearly 1,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same week for the Xbox One are up by nearly 61,000 units. PS4 sold 166,644 units for the week ending May 30, 2015 and Xbox One sales were at 67,277 units.
The PlayStation 4 sold an estimated 10,365 units, and the Xbox One sold 571 units.
Nintendo Switch sales compared to the same week a year ago are down by 45,365 units (-13.7%), while the PlayStation 5 is down by 65,048 (-28.0%) and the Xbox Series X|S is up 12,504 units (10.8%).
The PlayStation 4 is down 31,648 units (-75.3%) year-over-year and the Xbox One is down 16,753 units (-96.7%).
Looking at sales week-on-week, Nintendo Switch sales are up by over 2,000 units, PlayStation 5 sales are up by nearly 38,000 units, and Xbox Series X|S sales are down by nearly 11,000 units.
2022 year-to-date, the Nintendo Switch has sold an estimated 6.48 million units, the Xbox Series X|S has sold 3.14 million units, and the PlayStation 5 has sold 3.03 million units.
Global hardware estimates (Followed by lifetime sales):
- Switch - 285,220 (108,467,104)
- PlayStation 5 - 167,565 (20,007,679)
- Xbox Series X|S - 127,922 (14,939,038)
- PlayStation 4 - 10,365 (116,903,084)
- Xbox One - 571 (50,528,091)
- Switch - 105,186
- Xbox Series X|S - 73,539
- PlayStation 5 - 69,425
- PlayStation 4 - 6,369
- Xbox One - 466
- Switch - 77,849
- PlayStation 5- 57,022
- Xbox Series X|S - 37,361
- PlayStation 4 - 3,735
- Xbox One - 91
- Switch - 88,343
- PlayStation 5 - 32,626
- Xbox Series X|S - 12,307
- PlayStation 4 - 136
- Xbox One - 9
- Switch - 13,842
- PlayStation 5 - 8,492
- Xbox Series X|S - 4,715
- PlayStation 4 - 125
- Xbox One - 5
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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I had predicted the PS5 and Series would hit 20m and 15m by the first week of June and it looks like
I wasnt that far off. Seeing as Today is June 6th, the next report will have Series passing 15m before June 5th. Switch should hit 109m the week of June 5-11.
Its strange how the ps5 outsells the xbox when the xbox has been available 24/7 on amazon for the past 3 to 4 weeks and I have never seen a ps5 anywhere.
I believe if sony had stock then it would have hit 30 million by now, making it 2:1 of xbox sales which would be the same as last gen.
Only the Series S is available everywhere, the Series X is still just as hard to get as the PS5. In fact, as I write this, Series X is still sold out on Amazon as far as retail goes. The only thing that comes close to the 500 usd mark are used consoles. I wish I could screenshot this to call out your BS, but literally anyone can look it up so its cool.
I do believe the PS5 would be selling more, but it still would not be 2:1 like you claim.
ON ANOTHER NOTE FOR ANYONE LOOKONG FOR A PS5, AMAZON HAS THEM AS I POST THIS, BUT YOU HAVE TO REQUEST AN INVITATION. GO NOW IF YOU WANT TO TRY TO GET IT.
wrong, check amazon uk, anytime any day, it will be there I promise you. its been constantly in there for the past 4 weeks or more.
You are the typical American, thinks the USA is the world.
Ok I checked, its out of stock, just in UK there's plenty, other countries can still import, but no ps5.
Either way, back in my country Portugal you can walk in a shop and order it, they have the order online and will call you when it comes to the shop, or can send to your house too, free of charge, I usually buy Worten, its always available there.
My point is you can buy a series X if you look around, but not the ps5.
I checked Amazon US again, PS5 still on stock by invitation. Series X is currently only available used or by scalpers. This again is based on Amazon US.
Like I said overall they in the same boat. You have to look at the market beyond just what fits your narrative.
Typical American thinks usa is the world. You do know there's a big world outside no?
When did I say the US equals the world? I said you have to look at all markets, not just the ones that only fit your narrative. This was a response to you cherry picking one retailer from one market, and I used the US as a counter example. As I said, they are in the same boat when you take into consideration the vast number of markets out there and not just a single market specifically, but thank you for admitting I was right and that it is a big world out there.
I do find it comical though that you outed yourself by trying to blame me for doing exactly what you did though, which is only focusing on one market and ignoring the rest. Meanwhile my entire point was to make you look outside your bubble and see how misguided your comments were. ;)
I'm taking all the markets into account, ps is more popular will always be, period.
No one is denying that, people are questioning the notion that PS5 would be outselling Series 2:1 if PS5 did not have stock issues. You are only quoting data that support your narrative while ignoring the rest, and you are getting called out on it.
Based on the fact that both consoles are having stock issues in multiple regions (not just lookong at the ones you cherry pick), your only source to support your 2:1 claim is literally, "trust me bro".
At this point it has become a meme. Take your L and move on, there is no salvaging this for you no matter how much you try to spin what people are trying to actually say in response.
It varies from country to country. I just went to Xbox.ca, went to check Availability of Series X, and it's sold out in Canada on Amazon, Best Buy, The Source, EB Games, and Wal-Mart on their Canadian webstores. The Series S was sold out at Wal-Mart Canada's webstore, among other ones too. I have yet to see the Series S in stock at every Canadian webstore listed on Xbox.ca, even once, since launch. And out of curiosity, I check regularly. So it's not just the USA where X|S supply has yet to catch up with demand.
So if you think @Shiken is making the mistake of thinking the USA is the world, perhaps you're making the equal and opposite mistake of thinking the entire world outside the USA is the same as your experience.
xbox will never be close to playstation in Europe or Japan as an example, like I said, there is a big world out there, here in Europe most people buy-in the xbox is because they can't find the ps5.
"Never" is a long time. At one point Sega's lead in Europe seemed unassailable. At one point, Atari's lead in North America looked to be beyond questioning. Time will tell.
Sega's lead> What are you talking about? I started gaming in 1990 and can't remember any sega lead.
Sega had a dominant position in the European console market with the Sega Master System. The Master System's main competition was 8-bit home computers, no other console came close to it.
Similarly, the Sega Mega Drive outsold the console competition, and again its main competition wasn't other consoles but 16-bit home computers.
I can't help but notice that I made multiple points, all of which you ignored, except for one. If that means that you're ceding all my other points, then I accept. :)
Don’t know if you are serious but most prone here had NES and then SNES. You really are lost. Sorry
I am absolutely serious. In Europe overall, and the UK in particular, the Sega Master System easily outsold the NES. There were European-only Sega Master System titles released long after the console had died out elsewhere.
Ditto the Sega Mega Drive outselling the SNES in Europe overall, and again especially in the UK.
Not even the Series S is available to everyone. The Series S is sold out at at one or more of the big Canadian webstores every time I check, and I've been checking frequently since launch. And which webstores its sold out at change from week to week, so they're all getting restocked, just not enough. Series S stock appears to have yet to entirely catch up to demand in Canada at any point since launch, and Series X is worse still.
The series S has been available most the time since launch. The series X has been available almost every day on Amazon uk for the past 2 months. Whoever wants one can have one at retail price.
PS5 still available on Amazon US at retail price by requesting invitation. UK is not the world, you have to look at all markets.
Invitation? I do not care about that, I care when people can just go to a store and buy it at that moment.
I should also clarify that xbox is not popular in Europe, therefore plenty stock available as most people are waiting on a ps5.
It is false to say things are "not popular". Things are either more popular or less popular. And even then, you need to first establish what you're comparing against.
The Xbox Series consoles are less popular than the PS5 in Europe, but more popular than previous generations of Xbox (if aligned launches are anything to go by, and they usually are). And I think Microsoft is perfectly fine with that, as it continues the brand turn-around that began for Xbox around the time they announced OG and 360 Xbox backwards compatibility for the Xbox One.
Amazon of which country? It's not necessarily the case everywhere and that's only one retailer.
Even if just one country one retailer, thats already an advantage, you can also import, amazon imports to other countries in Europe for free. Im talking UK, Ill check amazon Italy, spain and germany just out of curiosity.
if there was more 100k series X than PS5 they would outsell the PS5! if there was another 250K PS5 they would sell everyone one of them..........................
Wrong. There is series X right now on the uk. Past 2 months plenty stock. I have never seen a single ps5 for sale.
Sony outselling Xbox 2:1 last generation was in large part due to it's competitor being, well...less competitive. Xbox One launched for $100 more, had a notable performance gap, and controversy surrounding both always online connections and restrictions of used games.
At this time in the Xbox One's lifecycle Sony had secured marketing rights for Call of Duty (thus pushing American's closer to Sony), Sony began making huge marketing deals and other exclusive deals (SFV, FF7 Remake, Destiny, DLC for Batman, etc). Xbox started making price cuts to be competitive in America, but Sony was undercutting their price cuts in Europe thus keeping their lead.
Now? Sony no longer has Call of Duty marketing rights (MS owns Activision...or will). There is less exclusive content between the two consoles from third parties, MS not only has hardware/price parity but they actually have a much cheaper console available, and there has been no controversy on MS's side with regard to used games at all.
Though the chip shortage ABSOLUTELY decreased the gap between Xbox and PS5 this generation, I don't think it would have been 2:1 in favor. At least, not for the entire generation.
Excuses, Sony again has advantages such as new features on the controller, and backwards compatibility that the ps4 never had but xbox had.
In fact microsoft had a bigger advantage that they don't have this generation, they came out after the successful 360, sony came out from the least successful playstation ever.
Backwards compatibility is a bigger deal for sony than microsoft because there's way more people with ps4 games, than people with xbox one games, more than double console sales, pure simple math.
Also xbox has the biggest disadvantage of any console in the history, the fact that all games, 100% are on PC, no single exclusive at all, and also no single exclusive on the X, all released on the one too.
Sony still has a lot of ps4 exclusives and also ps5 exclusives not on PC or PS4.
That call of duty changes nothing, its still coming to ps5, most people wouldn't even know about that anyway, most people just know that their ps4 games will run on ps5. Add to that God of war, horizon forbidden west, etc.
That deal changes everything. Most people will boot COD and there will be microsoft or Xbox logo.Plus marketing with Xbox, bundled with Xbox, additional downloadable content for Xbox and so on.
Like I said no one cares, the game will be on ps5 and 99% of gamers wouldn't even know who owns the game. Most people I know who have ps4 or ps5 would not get an xbox just for one game, they'd rather switch to battlefield or something else.
Especially when god of war launches ps5 will be even more desirable. Maybe in the usa xbox is big, but here in Europe, not really.
who says COD will stay on PS after 2024? nobody knows for sure.
You guys also forget xbox will not get VR, ps4 and ps5 have VR which also will help people pick the ps5 instead of xbox. There are many reasons why ps5 will be again the most popular console.
Just so you know, PS5 VR will sell to the same crowd that bought PS4 VR which is about 5m out of 117m. Having a PS5 VR isnt going to suddenly make all the holdouts want to jump in. You may hate to hear this but... VR just isnt for everyone.
BC doesn't sell a significant amount of consoles, and controller features are not going to be the driving force behind someone buying X console over Y console (unless it legitimately changes gameplay i.e. the Wii, Kinect, etc)
Your PC argument doesn't do you much when Sony is getting a piece of that action too.
Console generations don't stack like that. Though there are loyal customers, console sales have never been that predictable as it comes to sales. They vary wildly. You can go from 100M to 13M or from 20M to 86M. Nothing is guaranteed. In fact, it is because of Sony faltering with the PS3 that made Sony so sensitive when it came to image, and it is because MS's improved performance with the 360 that caused them to be arrogant with the Xbox One. Sony didn't start off with an obvious advantage this time, so it's less likely the gap will be as bad as last Gen
Most people who bought a ps5 was because they can still play their ps4 games on it, or else they'd just wait for more games to launch. Its important.
Controller features are in fact the major reason to buy one console over the other, many people buy games on ps5 instead of xbox just for the extra features like haptics, for me personally its the adaptive triggers, it enhances the experience so much, example death stranding is way better with it as you can actually feel they weight you're carrying so its easier to balance the packages. IOts like night and day just for one single controller feature. It legitimacy changes gameplay as much as vibration did back in the day when it was introduced. So noticeable on GT7 when you can actually feel the car or when the brakes lock.
Console sales are very predictable, sony always wins over microsoft that will never change.
You are wrong about the gap, the only reason the gap is not as big is because there are literally no ps5 for sale while xbox has always the option os series S which was always available, even the X is more available than the ps5. And even then ps5 is still 5 million ahead. But you miss other thing, ps4 is still selling around 17 to 18x the xbox one. Those are gamers that want a ps5 but cant find one. You underestimate the popularity of playstation.
It is verifiable that BC is not a primary sales driver. PS2 was BC and did great, PS3 started with BC and floundered, GBA sold less than GB, but DS was extremely successful, yet 3DS did even worse than the GBA. Look at the Wii U compared to the Switch. Etc. etc.
I would love to hear the data you have regarding console sales being influenced by different haptics. Because, as it stands, it's a baseless claim with nothing more than anecdotes to verify.
Console sales aren't predictable. They vary wildly. Sony's home consoles are the most consistent of the bunch, but even then they go from 100M to 150M to 85M.
Xbox One has literally been discontinued, so I don't see your point about that. Also, the sales for PS4 can't be extrapolated to the PS5 for the reasons I've mentioned before.
One reason that the gap is not as big is due to chip shortages. The other reason is that the Series X is a much more appealing product than the One was to start. This is apparent since the Series consoles are selling faster than the One even with shortages that the One didn't experience.
Hold up, you think BC is more important for PS5 because more people had PS4? Chances are those same people still have their PS4 but many who did not get an XBO can play all of those games as well as the BC 360 and XB games on a series X. That is a bigger selling point because those who skipped XBO now have a ton of games at their disposal that they didnt play already. Especially thanks to gamepass.
Most people who buy a new console, sell their old one, to help pay up the new one, what's the point of keeping a ps4 when all games can be played on ps5?
Your argument could work for xbox series, if microsoft actually had a big library of exclusives which it doesn't, all those games are on PC, and besides what's there on xbox one? Forza and more forza? Where's the spiderman, uncharted, last of us, ghost of tsushima, final fantasy 7 remake, bloodborne, god of war, death stranding and many many more.
People skipped the xbox one because of the lack of exclusives, so your point makes no sense.
Well... the point of keeping a PS4 is for those who bought the digital PS5. I know several who have done that and while they can play digital PS4 games on it... they have to have something for their physical PS4 games.
Most people do not want the digital ps5 unless they had all games digital on the ps4 already. The only people buying digital consoles are the ones desperate for one but cant find a disc version. There is no single advantage for a digital only console, only disadvantages. 100 dollars difference is nothing these days when games are pushing 70 dollars. For those 100 dollars you get a 4k bluray player and possibility to play borrowed games.
I think you're right that if neither had been supply contrained, the PS5 to X|S ratio would be stronger for Sony than the current 4:3 ratio. However, I doubt it would improve all the way to a 2:1 ratio. I suspect the truth it somewhere in the middle, as it usually is. :)
