
PS5 vs Switch Sales Comparison - April 2023 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 June 2023 / 9,889 ViewsThe VGChartz sales comparison series of articles are updated monthly and each one focuses on a different sales comparison using our estimated video game hardware figures. The charts include comparisons between the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch, as well as with older platforms. There are articles based on our worldwide estimates, as well as the US, Europe, and Japan.
This monthly series compares the aligned worldwide sales of the PlayStation 5 and Switch.
The PlayStation 5 launched in November 2020, while the Nintendo Switch launched in March 2017. This does mean the holiday periods for the two consoles do not lineup.
PS5 Vs. Switch Worldwide:
Gap change in latest month: 608,893 - PS5
Gap change over last 12 months: 706,164 - PS5
Total Lead: 452,492 - PS5
PlayStation 5 Total Sales: 37,439,537
Switch Total Sales: 36,987,045
April 2023 is the 30th month the PlayStation 5 has been available for. In the latest month, the gap grew in favor of the PlayStation 5 when compared to the aligned launch of the Nintendo Switch by 0.61 million units.
In the last 12 months, the PS5 has outsold the Switch by 0.71 million units. The PS5 is ahead of the Switch by 0.45 million units.
The PlayStation 5 has sold 37.44 million units in 30 months, while the Nintendo Switch sold 36.99 million units. Month 39 for the PlayStation 5 is April 2023 and for the Nintendo Switch it is August 2019.
The Nintendo Switch crossed 40 million in month 33, 50 million in month 35, and 60 million in month 41. The Nintendo Switch has sold 123.91 million units through March 2023. The PS5 is 87.62 million units behind lifetime Switch sales.
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 believe that the PS5 will only be able to keep up with Switch sales for another year. I highly doubt the ps5 will sell 125 million in 6 years like the switch did. not even gta 6 will do such a thing.
the PS5 could have long legs because the console is so well balanced
fast storage, fast GPU, fast CPU, backwards compatibility, it's the best console Sony has ever released, it could sell as well as the PS2 if they manage it right (the PS5 had a rough launch because of Covid, without that it would have sold 10 million more by now at least)
the Switch was limited by the lack of performance, if it had launched with the already out Tegra X2 instead of the X1 it might have done better (tegra x2 has double the memory bandwidth, the memory bandwidth of the Switch is brutally low, with half the width of the iPad also)
Specs matter very little in terms of the appeal and longevity of a console's lifespan. It's rare the the most powerful system wins a console generation, just cause the PS5 is technologically impressive doesn't much to the consumer for it to sell as well as PS2.
The Switch's specs clearly didn't limit the systems appeal since it's on pace to potentially become the greatest selling console of all time.
It's highly unlikely the PS5 will come close to beating the PS2 or even the Switch. A big reason for this is that the console market in Japan is way smaller now then it was during the PS2 era, the PS5 may reach 10M at best over there which would put it 13M short of PS2's sales numbers.
The PS5 would need make up for that deficit in other regions and I dont see that happening. Xbox even tho they're relatively far from PS in sales overall they're still alot more dominate in NA then they were during the PS2 era, so Xbox will heavily cut into PS5 sales in NA and also PC is becoming a threat to PS as well.
People overestimate the demand for PS5. It would have sold a bit better without shortages, but not as good as people think. The competition was very strong at the launch of PS5. Currently we still see artificial high demand for PS5 because of those previous shortages.
Nice turn around. Let's how long PS5 can keep the momentum.
Wrong metric because ps5 3 holidays but Switch only 2 holidays.Plus Switch start with crazy numbers after 2019 holidays and 2020 of course with 28.8M in 12 months.I predict only 80-90M for ps5 like ps3
The PS5 had only one holiday where you could actually buy it though, and that holiday was bundles only(at least in Europe) and zero Digital Edition.
Sony are predicting 25m units shipped this Financial Year for about 63.4m units shipped by March 2024. Under 90M sales lifetime would require some kind of worldwide disaster, like an asteroid hitting the earth or an alien invasion.