PS5 Best-Seller, NS Outsells XS - Americas Hardware Estimates for September 2024 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 October 2024 / 6,016 Views
The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console in the Americas (USA, Canada, & Latin America) with 328,817 units sold for September 2024, according to VGChartz estimates. The PlayStation 5 has now sold an estimated 25.57 million units lifetime in the Americas.
The Nintendo Switch was the second best-selling console with an estimated 189,915 units sold to bring lifetime sales to 54.21 million units. The Xbox Series X|S came in third place with 171,889 units sold to bring its lifetime sales to 18.25 million units. The PlayStation 4 sold an estimated 1,130 units to bring its lifetime sales to 41.54 million units.
PS5 sales compared to the same month for the PS4 in 2017 are down by nearly 50,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same month for the Xbox One are down by nearly 84,000 units. PS4 sold 378,799 units for the month of September 2017 and Xbox One sales were at 255,442 units.
PlayStation 5 sales compared to the same month a year ago are down by 247,841 (-43.0%). Xbox Series X|S sales are down by 201,242 units (-54.0%) and Nintendo Switch sales are down by 71,203 units (-27.3%). The PlayStation 4 is down by 7,592 units (-87.0%) year-over-year.
Looking at sales month-on-month, PlayStation 5 sales are up by over 53,000 units, Xbox Series X|S sales are up by nearly 14,000 units, and Nintendo Switch sales are up by nearly 58,000 units.
2024 year-to-date, the PlayStation 5 has sold an estimated 3.52 million units, the Xbox Series X|S has sold 1.92 million units, and the Nintendo Switch has sold 1.87 million units.
Monthly Sales:
Americas hardware estimates for September 2024 (Followed by lifetime sales):
- PlayStation 5 - 328,817 (25,568,003)
- Switch - 189,915 (54,209,562)
- Xbox Series X|S - 171,889 (18,254,508)
- PlayStation 4 - 1,130 (41,544,807)
USA hardware estimates for September 2024:
- PlayStation 5 - 280,161
- Switch - 159,968
- Xbox Series X|S - 145,134
- PlayStation 4 - 959
Weekly Sales:
September 7, 2024 hardware estimates:
Americas:
- PlayStation 5 - 67,679
- Xbox Series X|S - 36,197
- Switch - 33,111
- PlayStation 4 - 224
USA:
- PlayStation 5 - 57,729
- Xbox Series X|S - 30,635
- Switch - 27,828
- PlayStation 4 - 191
September 14, 2024 hardware estimates:
Americas:
- PlayStation 5 - 69,186
- Xbox Series X|S - 34,066
- Switch - 33,778
- PlayStation 4 - 224
USA:
- PlayStation 5 - 59,012
- Xbox Series X|S - 28,719
- Switch - 28,473
- PlayStation 4 - 191
September 21, 2024 hardware estimates:
Americas:
- PlayStation 5 - 63,292
- Switch - 36,675
- Xbox Series X|S - 32,236
- PlayStation 4 - 227
USA:
- PlayStation 5 - 53,785
- Switch - 30,898
- Xbox Series X|S - 27,267
- PlayStation 4 - 192
September 28, 2024 hardware estimates:
Americas:
- PlayStation 5 - 63,187
- Switch - 45,159
- Xbox Series X|S - 33,639
- PlayStation 4 - 227
USA:
- PlayStation 5 - 53,721
- Switch - 37,982
- Xbox Series X|S - 28,340
- PlayStation 4 - 192
October 5, 2024 hardware estimates:
Americas:
- PlayStation 5 - 65,473
- Switch - 41,192
- Xbox Series X|S - 35,751
- PlayStation 4 - 228
USA:
- PlayStation 5 - 55,914
- Switch - 34,787
- Xbox Series X|S - 30,173
- PlayStation 4 - 193
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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“Next Stop: Nintendo 64” caught me off-guard lol.
The $375 PS5 Digital Slim and the $425 Disc Slim will do great numbers for November
$349 and $399 would do just that much better. Get both SKU's under $400 and leave them there and watch sales continually climb back to where they should be.
Zelda didn't even make a dent in NSW sales! Little bit shocked...tho at the same time, TotK prolly captured the entire market of potential Zelda consumers.
NSW with >700k & PS5 with nearly 1mil WW is a very pleasing site. :) Industry had been stagnant for a big chunk of 2024, so I'm glad to see things start returning to levels comparable to last year.
NSW is almost 800k for the month, and PS5 is 1.03M for the month .. you probably don't add up the rest of world numbers, which are not presented on the top page .. XBSX is almost 300K.
Also the dent for the Switch was there .. it was selling between 140 and 160k weekly, and the week Zelda launched, it sold over 190k, so a bump of 30 to 50k is something.
ah, I was guess-imating WW figures (>700k NSW, >1mil PS5, >300k XBSX). Where do you already see "rest of the world" numbers?
(also, should've been more clear: EoW didn't even make a dent in USA/NA. Looks like figures didn't change at all, unless I'm misreading?? (Which is very possible lol.))
You can see all numbers combined into hardware by date, I am not getting ROW, just thought you adding the numbers on the top page, and there the ROW are not listed. Even in US, the sales got a small bump of around 10K for the week ending September 28th. But yeah .. overall it's little to no boost, normal for not a main AAA title in the 8th year of the console's life.
i think most zelda fans already own a switch? what are the zelda echos sales numbers??
The Switch is basically at market saturation. That it's still selling this well almost eight years after it launched is pretty amazing.
Not sure what people were expecting from EoW. It was never going to do TOTK or BOTW numbers.
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