PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch 2024 Americas Sales Comparison Charts Through November - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 January 2025 / 18,692 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 November 2021)
2022 – (January 2022 to November 2022)
2023 – (January 2023 to November 2023)
2024 – (January 2024 to November 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
- 2.56 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 0.81 million units (-24.2%)
Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch
- 2.86 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 1.40 million units (-32.8%)
Sony
- PlayStation 5
- 5.37 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 0.75 million units (-12.2%)
- PlayStation 4
- 13,249 units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 66,189 (-83.3%)
Note: VGChartz 2024 estimates through November includes 48 weeks, while 2023, 2022, and 2021 estimates includes 47 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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I'm impressed that the PS5 sold so much this year, for me it was an extremely weak year for gaming. Especially for first party games, next year looks like it will be a much better year.
Sony needs good numbers this year, to survive next year. The contrary would suppose the end of PS5, like Series seems to suffer already. I don't know how they sell this "much", but obviosdly, they are working in that.
The idea for them is: when GTAVI arrives, PS5 will be saved.
That's the reason I would like MS to announce a new generation console PC-based next year, as soon as they could, for launch in mid-2026, late 2026 at max. Because it will blow up Sony's strategy for 2026 and will for sure cut the PS5 future, and maybe even nuke the PS6 launch forever. Helping Sony to advance its future of full PC based developer, as it is becoming anyways.
I gotta agree with XDKrieg33 here.
Everytime I read comments such as yours, wether on this site or another, I always wonder that I must have missed that one particular statement from Xbox:
"Please, don't buy X|S. We plead with you! Don't let X|S stay on track with or even overtake PS5!"
Because if they didn't, that must mean that Xbox have just screwed up once again.
And that people that were spending 500 bucks this November on X|S, that they can already make a plan to spend another 500'ish bucks in 1½ years again.
For the next Xbox that you not only wish to cut PS6's launch. But also, from reading between your lines, you imagine to not even think about cross-gen game support once it launches
Totally ignoring the people that bought an X|S this year for the first time.
Well, good luck with that!
The people who buys an Xbox series this late 2024 will have a machine with support the next 5 years at least. What's the problem? Even One is still having support.
So, what's the point of cutting PS6's launch short then in mid 2026? In your personal best case scenario. You just wrote that.
Cross-gen for another 5 years, like you said?
This doesn't even make ANY sense, mate.
Whatever Microsoft will be doing, they REALLY must come up with a good plan.
That's why it's just mind-boggling to me personally why they didn't prepare a full-force software line-up for the Series generation.
They fucked up, unless you consider "CoD now owned by Microsoft" a game changer.
If MS launches a next gen in the next 2 years, they will destroy Sony's plan with PS5. PS6 will never launch before 2028 (or even later).
If the Xbox Next will be launched between mid and end 2026, the PS5 will most likely be sitting somewhere between 95-105m units sold already.
How's that a destruction for the PS5?
Don't hesitate to explain.
It probably will sit around 90-95 million in mid-2026.
Is not a destruction for PS5 per se, is a destruction of Sony's plans with PS5 and the future PS6.
PS5 have to be a long-term console for Sony, with huge problems managing its western ultra expensive studios, producing expensive tiple A and selling them not that well. That's the reason they are now basically transforming SIE into a PC developer, a platform that by 2024 is a total competitor for domestic consoles (That's not the 90s or 2000s anymore).
In the hipothetic case MS launches a new generation console, doing it in less than 2 years, before the end of 2026. people in US will start to abandon PS5 and Sony could not launch a PS6 in at least one more year (maybe 2) after that new Xbox.
I don't know if there is a MS plan to do it, but it could be a very factual plan seeing what happened with the very succesful 360 advanced launch in respect to PS3, the poor sells of Series this year, the Series Pro being finally aborted (good decision by MS), and knowing what the new consoles are: Just a capped PCs only for play, and because of that, not very hard to develop (Sony felt into the MS trap with its x86 adoption as its default architecture: PCs are MS reign, and since that finally happened around 2013, the PCs transformed as the main competitor for Playstation, cause now EVERYTHING appears in PC: including the japanese games).
In Japan, PS5 situation is already bad (even very bad, seeing the top games sales) after 5 xmas seasons there. So, only Europe would be a strong place for Sony. And Europe is the less important market: has not the huge US studios or Japanese historical companies with its franchises.
I did not hesitated.
CoD owned by MS is a game changer. Not for MS, but for Sony (they need to reconvert to PC developer to pay the triple A costs they now need to develop)
"Not for MS“
You should probably reconsider that statement.
Why?
I'll put it as a "Yes" or "No" question:
You personally think, MS aqcuiring ABK and CoD as its biggest asset wasn't and won't be a game changer for them?
What will change for MS? It will continue to get the games of ABK. Sony, maybe not.
I told you before: "CoD owned by MS is a game changer. Not for MS, but for Sony"
Their last 5 financial reports speak otherwise, John.
And this is the point I just can't believe you're struggling with a simple yes or no answer.
Despite facts.
Such as their past 4 financial reports proved it was indeed a game changer for MS. Which is actually something positive for Microsoft.
But you're choosing semantics to deflect even that.
Because it's not about facts for you. You're only having a hard time agreeing on something by someone else, who you doesn't share your personal preferences.
I tried, but that's it for me with discussing things with someone like you. You're not worth anyone's time (in this matter).
Happy Christmas.
"Add your And this is the point I just can't believe you're struggling with a simple yes or no answer.reply..."
What? XD
For third time: "Not for MS". Is NOT a game changer for MS. Can't you see the NO?
Is a game changer for Sony (and a BIG one) in the western market.
Of course MS can do more money thanks to ABK games: they have a lot of new studios. But that is not a "game changer" for them, at least no in a short term.
Game changer would be starting to sell well in Japan, but ABK is not one of the favorite publishers in Japan. The Xbox Series will not sell better there cause ABK.
Game changer would be to place its console selling better than Nintendo, ABK probably will not do that... any time soon.
Game changer would be a departure of the game console manufacturing by Sony. Well, that could be in a long term, but until that happens some years will pass.
Sony is the real affected by that buyout. MS will continue to do what they are doing: selling the Xbox as a multiplatform idea, including their pc-based consoles.
it makes sense, because all consoles are PC based, so, no big problem in doing that. Any new generation is just a new PC.
PS4 and One survived well, until now, just because that
The era of the different internal architecture has been gone long time ago (PS2 to PS3, N64 to Gamecube, MD to Saturn... are other eras. Since 2013, everything in domestic consoles is just PC based... So MS can, if they try,
The main reason we still see PS4 and Xbox One games is this is the first generation that uses the same architecture (x86) as the previous generation. Makes porting/developing these games easier if they can run on the last gen consoles. I know a lot of people are still on last gen, but that was also the case on PS3 and Xbox 360, but most if not all developers moved on to PS4 and Xbox One after 2015 (2 years after PS4 and Xbox One released). We are approaching year 5 for PS5 and Xbox Series, yet we still see quite a bit of PS4 and Xbox One games (mainly PS4). I think 2025 will be the last year for PS4 and Xbox One.
I doubt a new Xbox will be able to compete against PS5 without some drastic improvements. But for four generations, Microsoft has demonstrated that they’re incapable of creating, only copying what their market research teams tell them has sold well in the past. Yes, they are a massively wealthy company, but it hasn’t stopped them from losing. They spent tens of billions of USD buying up large portions of the third party market, because that’s the only path for a company devoid of creativity to advance.
But Microsoft’s strategy doesn’t work because they don’t foster creativity in their new studios any more than they do in their old ones they bought and turned into franchise farms. They force them to conform to Microsoft’s way of doing things while firing thousands of their staff. Making the industry both more centralized and more homogenized. Because Microsoft isn’t doing something different, they’re not innovating and expanding the industry in the way that Nintendo has done. Xbox is doomed to Playstation’s shadow, because Playstation is already the authentic brand of what Xbox is trying to be. In other words, most gamers who are looking for a Playstation will want a Playstation, not an ImitationStation.
It’s time for the regulation boards to grow a pair and do their jobs by taking action against Microsoft. Because Microsoft’s tactics aren’t making Xbox better, they’re making the video-gaming industry worse.
I was laughing when I read you: You don't even know it, but change "Microsoft" for "Sony", and you'll get EXACTLY what Sony did during 12 years. Not even Crash and Spyro, the "mascots" of PSX (trying to copy Mario and Sonic), were never from Sony. And now are both Microsoft characters.
They buyed the studios (Naughty and Insomniac).... but they never buyed the characters.
Total sales are down quite significantly, the third consecutive year. I expect PS5 and Xbox Series further declining next year, so it's up to Nintendo to start a trend reversal, but nevertheless it won't be a full calendar year for Nintendo's next console.
