PS5 Best-Seller, XS Sales Up YoY - Americas Hardware Estimates for January 2024 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 February 2024 / 7,251 Views
The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console in the Americas (USA, Canada, & Latin America) with 501,539 units sold for January 2024, according to VGChartz estimates. The PlayStation 5 has now sold an estimated 22.53 million units lifetime in the Americas.
The Nintendo Switch was the second best-selling console with an estimated 297,903 units sold to bring lifetime sales to 52.62 million units. The Xbox Series X|S came in third place with 287,139 units sold to bring its lifetime sales to 16.55 million units. The PlayStation 4 sold an estimated 1,482 units to bring its lifetime sales to 41.54 million units.
PS5 sales compared to the same month for the PS4 in 2017 are up by over 242,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same month for the Xbox One are up by nearly 53,000 units. PS4 sold 259,155 units for the month of January 2017 and Xbox One sales were at 234,393 units.
PlayStation 5 sales compared to the same month a year ago are down by 6,054 (-1.2%). Xbox Series X|S sales are up by 23,519 units (8.9%) and Nintendo Switch sales are down by 30,425 units (-9.3%). The PlayStation 4 is down by 5,192 units (-77.8%) year-over-year. It should be noted, January 2024 is a five week period, while it was four weeks in January 2023.
Looking at sales month-on-month, PlayStation 5 sales are down by nearly 1.31 million units, Xbox Series X|S sales are down by nearly 1.06 million units, and Nintendo Switch sales are down by over 1.24 million units. It should be noted, this is comparing a holiday month (December 2023) to a non-holiday month (January 2024).
Monthly Sales:
Americas hardware estimates for January 2024 (Followed by lifetime sales):
- PlayStation 5 - 501,539 (22,528,469)
- Switch - 297,903 (52,616,613)
- Xbox Series X|S - 287,139 (16,549,645)
- PlayStation 4 - 1,482 (41,536,276)
USA hardware estimates for January 2024:
- PlayStation 5 - 420,317
- Switch - 250,673
- Xbox Series X|S - 240,745
- PlayStation 4 - 1,259
Weekly Sales:
January 6, 2024 hardware estimates:
Americas:
- PlayStation 5 - 109,430
- Switch - 69,407
- Xbox Series X|S - 67,796
- PlayStation 4 - 359
USA:
- PlayStation 5 - 91,659
- Switch - 58,267
- Xbox Series X|S - 56,873
- PlayStation 4 - 302
January 13, 2024 hardware estimates:
Americas:
- PlayStation 5 - 95,639
- Switch - 56,903
- Xbox Series X|S - 53,885
- PlayStation 4 - 336
USA:
- PlayStation 5 - 80,056
- Switch - 47,962
- Xbox Series X|S - 45,168
- PlayStation 4 - 287
January 20, 2024 hardware estimates:
Americas:
- PlayStation 5 - 97,583
- Switch - 54,113
- Xbox Series X|S - 51,654
- PlayStation 4 - 295
USA:
- PlayStation 5 - 81,831
- Switch - 45,628
- Xbox Series X|S - 43,267
- PlayStation 4 - 251
January 27, 2024 hardware estimates:
Americas:
- PlayStation 5 - 97,621
- Switch - 57,896
- Xbox Series X|S - 55,698
- PlayStation 4 - 255
USA:
- PlayStation 5 - 81,842
- Switch - 48,792
- Xbox Series X|S - 46,731
- PlayStation 4 - 218
February 3, 2024 hardware estimates:
Americas:
- PlayStation 5 - 101,266
- Switch - 59,584
- Xbox Series X|S - 58,106
- PlayStation 4 - 237
USA:
- PlayStation 5 - 84,929
- Switch - 50,024
- Xbox Series X|S - 48,706
- PlayStation 4 - 201
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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"and Nintendo Switch sales are up by over 1.24 million units."
UP???
interesting that nintendo had so many sales
[facepalm] more proof you never read articles and instead comment on every fooking articles!
I was responding to the comment and it's interseting that switch is still selling so well! number 2 across the board comapred to xbox and ps4
Wow! What an incredible January for all consoles. Switch is only down 10%?? And for how strong PS5 was during January 2023, that slight decline is much better than expected. Xbox is also up YoY by nearly double digits. Love to see all-around good news for the industry.
Should be added: Switch is likely to have sold around 900k-1mil during the month of January this year. Doing this every month would give the Switch 3mil this quarter…this would be incredibly impressive for a console entering its eighth year.
Five weeks vs. four weeks, though. So, it's more like the Switch is 30% down, the PS5 20% down, and the Xbox 10% down.
That's still impressive for an almost 8 year old console. For PS5 and Xbox Series, thats a bit underwhelming.
And the 5th week had 3 days of Feb in it so it was mostly an all Jan month. I dont see how 3 days removes 21% points worth of units for Switch (I dont know how many units that would be, nor do I want to do that math), 18%points worth of units for PS5 and Xbox Series.
Each "month" of sales is always a chunk of four or five weeks, so it's always 28 or 35 days with no in-between. The latter is 25% bigger than the former.
Ok so adding a week, 25% has that much of an impact?
yes it literally does make that much of a difference lol. (appreciate the added context btw haxxiy).
Impressive work PS5, and solid effort to Switch! What games came out to sell the PS5 at 90k+ weekly?
Im still happy to see PS5 doing well and switch too
