PS5 Has Outsold the Switch in the UK to Become Best-Selling Console in 2022 Through August - Sales

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PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console in the UK in August, according to GfK Entertainment. The console had a strong month with sales up 56 percent month-on-month.

Nintendo Switch came in second place as sales increased four percent compared to July. Xbox Series X|S came in third place with sales flat.

There were nearly 125,000 video game consoles sold in the UK in August, which is a 20 percent over July.

So far for 2022 there have been just under 880,000 consoles sold this year. This is a 36 percent drop compared to the first eight months of 2021.

For 2022 year-to-date, the PlayStation 5 has overtaken the Nintendo Switch and is now the best-selling console in the UK for the year.

GSD data shows that 1.67 million physical and digital games were sold in the UK in August, which is a drop of 10 percent compared to August 2021. Software sales were also down three percent compared to July 2022.

Saints Row was the best-selling game in the UK and was the best-selling digital game by a large margin. However, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was the best-selling game if you only include retail sales. 

Despite having the smaller install base the Xbox version of the game sold 21 percent more units than the other versions.

The PC version of Spider-Man Remastered had the next biggest debut. It entered the charts in seventh place and had the biggest debut for a Sony game on PC. Sega's Two Point Campus debuted in eighth place.

It should be noted the software charts do not include the sales of games bundled with consoles. 

Here are the software (digital + physical) charts:

* Digital data unavailable

GSD digital data includes games from participating companies sold via Steam, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo Eshop. Major participating companies are Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Codemasters, Electronic Arts, Embracer Group (including Gearbox, Koch Media, Sabre Interactive), Focus Entertainment, Konami, Marvellous Games, Microids, Microsoft (including Bethesda), Milestone, Nacon, Paradox Interactive, Quantic Dream, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, Take-Two, Ubisoft and Warner Bros. Nintendo and 505 Games are the notable absentees, alongside smaller studios.

Thanks, GamesIndustry.

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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ShadowLink93 (on 09 September 2022)

Wasn't PS5 really far ahead of Switch last year in the UK and then October, November and December happened and Switch overturned PS5's massive lead.

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Kakadu18 ShadowLink93 (on 09 September 2022)

Yes, that's the case. At this point last year the PS5 had a way bigger lead over the Switch than it has now.

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Blood_Tears ShadowLink93 (on 10 September 2022)

While that is true, shortages destroyed PS5 in that quarter last year as they only shipped 3.9M for the holiday. Things are looking better for shipments this year for them.

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xMetroid Blood_Tears (on 10 September 2022)

Nintendo is just a bigger seller in the last quarter in general. Their presence during end of November/December is unmatched.

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Alistair xMetroid (on 11 September 2022)

they sell more because they are not supply constrained, this is nothing to do with Nintendo, people buy more consoles in general at the end of the year if they are in stock

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Slownenberg Alistair (on 11 September 2022)

except Nintendo is the biggest holiday seller every year (when they have a successful system). It's not a supply issue. People just buy Nintendo more during the holidays.

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Shatts (on 09 September 2022)

Wow that's huge for PS

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Alistair (on 11 September 2022)

Wow, 50 percent more supply = 50 percent more sales. Imagine if they could manufacture more.

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Zyphe (on 09 September 2022)

It's just the UK, the Switch will overtake it for the whole of Europe, as always.

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darthv72 (on 09 September 2022)

Switch is coming up to 6 years on the market. Who didn't think this would happen at some point?

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Ljink96 darthv72 (on 09 September 2022)

True, but it's still only in the UK. It's going on 6 years and World Wide has generally kept the no. 1 spot. This will eventually change too but almost 6 years and still throwing around weight is insane.

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ShadowLink93 Ljink96 (on 09 September 2022)

Playstation is strongest in Europe so it's not a surprise that PS5 leads in some European countries. However worldwide Switch will be way ahead for the year, this week Vgchartz has Switch at 10.25m and PS5 at 5.74m in 2022 as of August 27th.

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jvmkdg (on 09 September 2022)

Will there be any changes for the ps5 or switch with this data?

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kazuyamishima (on 09 September 2022)

I hope the switch does really well and meet expectations, especially on this site.

It supporters will be sad if that doesn’t happen.

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LivncA_Dis3 (on 10 September 2022)

No brainer, ps5 will always be on top if stocks wasn't the problem.

It's the newest latest piece of hardware and switch is 5 years old...

Xbox would've still been a preferred 2nd after thought

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