PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch 2024 Worldwide Sales Comparison Charts Through March - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 May 2024 / 7,557 Views
Here we see data representing the sales through to consumers and change in sales performance of the three current platforms (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch) and two legacy platforms (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) over comparable periods for 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Also shown is the market share for each of the consoles over the same periods.
Year to Date Sales Comparison (Same Periods Covered)
Market Share (Same Periods Covered)
2021 – (January 2021 to March 2021)
2022 – (January 2022 to March 2022)
2023 – (January 2023 to March 2023)
2024 – (January 2024 to March 2024)
"Year to date" sales for 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2043 sales are shown in series at the top of the table and then just below a comparison of 2024 versus 2023 and 2024 versus 2022 is displayed. This provides an easy-to-view summary of all the data.
Total Sales and Market Share for Each Year
Microsoft
- Xbox Series X|S
- 1.07 units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 411,501 units (-27.8%)
Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch
- 2.78 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 345,425 units (-11.1%)
Sony
- PlayStation 5
- 4.11 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 881,986 units (-17.7%)
- PlayStation 4
- 19,243 units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 46,399 (-70.7%)
Note: VGChartz 2024 estimates through March includes 14 weeks, while 2023, 2022, and 2021 estimates includes 13 weeks.
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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Note: VGChartz 2024 estimates through March includes 14 weeks, while 2023, 2022, and 2021 estimates includes 13 weeks. We follow the dates for Circana (NPD), which has 53 weeks in 2024 and they put the extra week in January.
Xbox Series has its worst Q1 since its launch. At this point it's hard to believe that it can survive 3 or 4 more years. It needs some kind of "Kinect" thing to breathe a second life into it. A stronger or white Series X without disc drive won't make the difference...
It's over for them. It's just Sony vs Nintendo from now on. PS5 Pro vs switch 2
Nintendo Successor takes the dub easily vs PS5
Without GtA6, the biggest multimedia event in history. I doubt it
GTA6 isn't a PS5 exclusive. It has to share its sales with multiple systems. Nintendo systems don't need any GTA to sell 100+ million units.
It's a console exclusive for awhile and Rockstar has confirmed that. So that only leaves PS5 VS Xbox on launch, and you literally just implied in your first comment that Xbox is struggling to survive. You think GTA6 on a console that is struggling to survive is going to take away any limelight from PlayStation. Not one bit.
I think that people who are familiar with Microsoft and who have gotten an Xbox in the past that enjoy GTA will be getting GTAVI with an Xbox Series.
If anything the GTAVI sales will be 45/55 Xbox Series/PS5 at least until it’s released on computer. Then it’ll be 25/35/45 Xbox Series/PS5/PC.
And I think GTAVI will sell near 10M its first quarter.
And will only boost console sales by 25% (ex. So if they are selling 1M units a week they’ll be selling 1.25M a week.)
Doubt it. Everyone knows Xbox is dead now. Anyone who buys a console just got GTA6 is getting a PS5. Just like all theirs friends have.
