Switch Sales Top 112M, Sales Jump for PS5, XS, and NS - Worldwide Hardware Estimates for Aug 21-27 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 September 2022 / 8,358 Views
The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console with 346,799 units sold for the week ending August 27, 2022, according to VGChartz estimates. The Switch has now sold an estimated 112.08 million units lifetime.
The PlayStation 5 sold an estimated 235,286 units to bring its lifetime sales to 22.71 million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 189,984 units to bring their lifetime sales to 16.69 million units.
PS5 sales compared to the same week for the PS4 in 2015 are up by over 32,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same week for the Xbox One are up by nearly 73,000 units. PS4 sold 203,754 units for the week ending August 29, 2015 and Xbox One sales were at 117,484 units.
The PlayStation 4 sold an estimated 3,459 units, and the Xbox One sold 301 units.
Nintendo Switch sales compared to the same week a year ago are up by 60,981 units (21.3%), while the PlayStation 5 is down by 9,897 (-4.0%) and the Xbox Series X|S is up 56,318 units (42.1%).
The PlayStation 4 is down 23,866 units (-87.3%) year-over-year and the Xbox One is down 3,781 units (-92.6%).
Looking at sales week-on-week, Nintendo Switch sales are up by over 83,000 units, PlayStation 5 sales are are up by over 25,000 units, and Xbox Series X|S sales are up by over 16,000 units.
2022 year-to-date, the Nintendo Switch has sold an estimated 10.25 million units, the PlayStation 5 has sold 5.74 million units, and the Xbox Series X|S has sold 5.10 million units.
Global hardware estimates (Followed by lifetime sales):
- Switch - 346,799 (112,079,540)
- PlayStation 5 - 235,286 (22,713,587)
- Xbox Series X|S - 189,984 (16,692,778)
- PlayStation 4 - 3,459 (116,993,730)
- Xbox One - 301 (50,533,826)
- Switch - 115,605
- PlayStation 5 - 98,533
- Xbox Series X|S - 95,068
- PlayStation 4 - 2,560
- Xbox One - 220
- PlayStation 5 - 79,986
- Switch - 77,452
- Xbox Series X|S - 54,347
- PlayStation 4 - 811
- Xbox One - 71
- Switch - 142,367
- PlayStation 5 - 49,154
- Xbox Series X|S - 35,081
- PlayStation 4 - 54
- Xbox One - 5
- Switch - 11,375
- PlayStation 5 - 7,613
- Xbox Series X|S - 5,488
- PlayStation 4 - 34
- 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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Splatoon is a big thing in Japan. I'm curious how the software pushes the hardware when the game releases this week. It's a bit strange that the special designed console releases two weeks ahead the game.
It's not the first time. It happened with the Pokémon BDSP Switch Lite last year and the Smash Ultimate special edition.
The Pokémon OLED model thos November is also out two weeks before Pokémon S/V.
It took 8 months to Switch to reach 10 millions this year
At least another 1 million in September, then a 10 million holiday. 21+ million for the year is looking very likely.
come on... 10 million this holiday? during our massive recession? inflation and energy prices and everything?
Call Greta Tumberg. She knows what to do to solve this!
sales are already down 22 percent, if that continues through the holiday, that is 19 million sales for the year
if Sony doesn't increase their sales week by week they haven't reached their target of 18 million during the fiscal year. Maybe they are keeping stock for the end of the year sales since at the end of the year we will have god of war ragnarok what do you think?
With the way the system is selling out pretty much immediately I'm not sure Sony would stockpile systems for a future release. I'm probably wrong because I know companies have done stuff like that in the past, I just don't understand the reasoning behind it.
I’m still kind of blown away by those Asia numbers for Xbox. What a staggering turnaround in those markets, I don’t even think the Xbox 360 was doing that well week to week in Asia. I assume China legalizing console sales has something to do with this
What happened that sales rose so much for all the consoles this week, and especially the Switch selling 80 thousand more than the previous week? I don't think any game released that would account for the sales increase, and the last week of August when everyone is preparing to go back to school seems a strange time for more people to buy consoles outside of maybe college kids wanting something for their dorm room.
Jesus Hussein Christ! That’s a nice little bump in console sales :)
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