PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch 2024 Europe Sales Comparison Charts Through August - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 October 2024 / 7,108 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 August 2021)
2022 – (January 2022 to August 2022)
2023 – (January 2023 to August 2023)
2024 – (January 2024 to August 2024)
"Year to date" sales for 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 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
- 0.57 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 0.45 million units (-44.0%)
Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch
- 1.38 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 0.94 million units (-40.5%)
Sony
- PlayStation 5
- 2.82 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 0.90 million units (-24.2%)
- PlayStation 4
- 12,456 units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 29,777 (-70.5%)
Note: VGChartz 2024 estimates through August includes 35 weeks, while 2023, 2022, and 2021 estimates includes 34 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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Switch seems to be way down, but since most of it was the big boost it got during the summer from TotK and almost none during the holidays, it looks much worse than it actually is.
NSW didn’t get a holiday boost in Europe last year? I thought it was only Japan where sales didn’t boost? Nearly 7mil Q3F24 NSW units was a lot larger than many were anticipating.
Japan was absolutely flat, but the other regions were also underwhelming to some degree. Mind you, I'm not just counting on November and December, but also the leadup to them, so including September and October. And in September through November, Switch was pretty underwhelming last year (December was fine, though).
I do agree however that "almost none" was a pretty poor choice of words outside of Japan. Should have said weak fall sales instead, that would have been much more to the point. And the actual idea was to point out that sales won't drop anywhere near 40% this year because the gap to last year will be much smaller this coming months.
Btw, did you notice that the Switch is now starting to sell better in the EU than in the US - but still worse than Japan?
these are weird times for the industry, though the weirdest part is how NSW is seeing smallest YoY declines (relative to percentage) of the big three systems. This is despite NSW being in its twilight year, and the others in the fourth lol.
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