PS5 Best-Selling Console, NS #2, XS #3 - Americas Hardware Estimates for January 2023 - Sales

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The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console in the Americas (USA, Canada, & Latin America) with 493,793 units sold for January 2023, according to VGChartz estimates. The PlayStation 5 has now sold an estimated 14.59 million units lifetime in the Americas.

The Nintendo Switch sold an estimated 331,728 units to bring its lifetime sales to 47.12 million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 309,620 units to bring their lifetime sales to 11.95 million units. The PlayStation 4 sold an estimated 4,380 units to bring its lifetime sales to 41.64 million units.

PS5 sales compared to the same month for the PS4 in 2016 are up by over 236,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same month for the Xbox One are up by over 156,000 units. PS4 sold 257,453 units for the month of January 2016 and Xbox One sales were at 153,485 units.

PlayStation 5 sales compared to the same month a year ago are up by 77,051 (18.5%). Nintendo Switch sales are up by 10,647 units (3.3%) and Xbox Series X|S sales are down by 72,306 units (-18.9%). The PlayStation 4 is down 28,492 units (-86.7%) year-over-year.

Looking at sales month-on-month, the PlayStation 5 sales are down by 1.11 million units, Nintendo Switch sales are down by 1.33 million units, and Xbox Series X|S sales are down by 0.84 million units. It should be noted this is comparing January 2023 estimates to December 2022 estimates, the biggest sales month of the year.

Monthly Sales:

Americas hardware estimates for January 2023 (Followed by lifetime sales):

1. PlayStation 5 - 493,793 (14,592,017)
2. Switch - 331,728 (47,118,594)
3. Xbox Series X|S - 309,620 (11,945,963)
4. PlayStation 4 - 4,380 (41,636,969)

USA hardware estimates for January 2023:

1. PlayStation 5 - 418,538
2. Switch - 280,370
3. Xbox Series X|S - 260,177
4. PlayStation 4 - 3,898

Weekly Sales:

January 7, 2023 hardware estimates:

Americas:

1. PlayStation 5 - 131,912
2. Switch - 86,528
3. Xbox Series X|S - 78,744
4. PlayStation 4 - 1,352

USA:

1. PlayStation 5 - 111,623
2. Switch - 73,263
3. Xbox Series X|S - 65,872
4. PlayStation 4 - 1,224

January 14, 2023 hardware estimates:

Americas:

1. PlayStation 5 - 116,486
2. Switch - 75,227
3. Xbox Series X|S - 72,283
4. PlayStation 4 - 1,117

USA:

1. PlayStation 5 - 98,623
2. Switch - 63,651
3. Xbox Series X|S - 60,834
4. PlayStation 4 - 997

January 21, 2023 hardware estimates:

Americas:

1. PlayStation 5 - 116,283
2. Switch - 77,742
3. Xbox Series X|S - 75,235
4. PlayStation 4 - 1,010

USA:

1. PlayStation 5 - 98,568
2. Switch - 65,735
3. Xbox Series X|S - 63,432
4. PlayStation 4 - 892

January 28, 2023 hardware estimates:

Americas:

1. PlayStation 5 - 129,112
2. Switch - 92,231
3. Xbox Series X|S - 83,358
4. PlayStation 4 - 901

USA:

1. PlayStation 5 - 109,724
2. Switch - 77,721
3. Xbox Series X|S - 70,039
4. PlayStation 4 - 785

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.

Note that our estimates are based on sell-through data (units sold to consumers). In almost all cases the figures released by console manufacturers are based on shipment data (sell-in), where as soon as a device has left the factory and entered the supply chain for delivery it is considered a sale. This is why there is always a difference between the companies’ figures (sell-in) and VGChartz estimates (sell-through), even after we’ve made adjustments. The one exception to that is when a console has been discontinued and the remaining stock has finally sold out – at that point the figures will match.

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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2zosteven (on 21 February 2023)

PS5 finally has consoles in stock and switch starting to wind down

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nintendocentral 2zosteven (on 21 February 2023)

I kinda disagree about the Switch, the Switch is still selling like hotcakes and is slightly up year on year in the US so far. The Switch will probably slow down a lot next year but I think it will only be a bit down if not flat with last year.

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kazuyamishima nintendocentral (on 21 February 2023)

Revenue was up slightly according to NPD group so in units it might be down YoY.

In Europe was down about 11%, UK about 30% and Japan around 20% on January, the trend will continue towards the end of the year

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CourageTCD (on 21 February 2023)

So, here we have US sales, the Americas sales and in the home page we have North America sales. If Canada's sales is 8~10% of US's, then we could find out Mexico's sales by doing NA sales - US sales - US sales*0,08~0,1.

We could also have the SA sales by doing America's sales - NA's sales

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AJNShelton (on 21 February 2023)

Aren't Xbox figures a bit too high ? Especially when compared to NPD data

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trunkswd AJNShelton (on 21 February 2023)

In the US we have Xbox Series sales down a bit over 15% year-on-year and a bit more than that in Canada and Latin America.

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nintendocentral (on 21 February 2023)

Hi, I was wondering on the weekly hardware comparisons if there could be a North America graph as well as the USA graph that is already there?

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scrapking (on 21 February 2023)

I'm glad to see a separation between the U.S. and the rest of the Americas.

I'm curious how much of console sales in the rest of the Americas is Canada specifically? While Canada is a smaller population than Brazil, etc., it's a richer market that has traditionally bought a lot of game consoles.

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trunkswd scrapking (on 21 February 2023)

Canada is equal to about 8-10% of US sales.

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scrapking trunkswd (on 22 February 2023)

So an outsized chunk, yet still not a gigantic part, of the rest of the Americas' sales. Thanks for that! :)

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xgamerx (on 21 February 2023)

given the fact that there is no hype/excitement around xbox with no first party releases, these are pretty good numbers.

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AJNShelton xgamerx (on 21 February 2023)

Well Hi-Fi rush released in January

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pikashoe AJNShelton (on 21 February 2023)

Great game, but probably not the type to move consoles on its own. Especially since it was shadow dropped at the end of the month.

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Brimac19 pikashoe (on 23 February 2023)

Really not sure why they dropped it like this??? No build up/hype. Maybe because it’s a Gamepass game???

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jvmkdg (on 21 February 2023)

I didn't like this format global sales should come first and then sales by separate regions. the graphic at the beginning of the page looks weird.

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Mars2001 (on 22 February 2023)

Ps5 only 14,5M means its behind ps4.But ps4 its 5-6 th console in Americas.Switch 48M until 31/12/2022 means few more millions to became best ever console in Americas surpass DS.DS now is the Best Ever

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