PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch 2024 Japan Sales Comparison Charts Through December - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 January 2025 / 9,028 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
- 0.12 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 0.02 million units (-17.7%)
Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch
- 3.22 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 0.73 million units (-18.4%)
Sony
- PlayStation 5
- 1.50 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 1.04 million units (-40.9%)
- PlayStation 4
- 13,913 units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 0.06 million (-80.5%)
Note: VGChartz 2024 estimates through December includes 53 weeks, while 2023, 2022, and 2021 estimates includes 52 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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With these numbers, Switch should do at least 2 million this year in Japan alone!!
That Switch market share...
Why isn't Wii U in that chart? it sold more than 3 million in the past gen.
Those PS5 numbers this past year are bad.
We'll see how MH Wilds helps to sell PS5 this year.
im not the person in charge of this post (obv)…but i think the reason Wii U is excluded here is b/c it was discontinued all the way back in January 2017. Seeing that this chart is only comparing 2021-2024 marketshare data, it doesn’t seem like it’d make much sense to include Wii U. You could maybe argue for including 3DS, but Wii U is too old.
But why is the PS4 included then? It was discontinued back in 2022. Since April 2022 Sony does not report PS4 hardware anymore just Software is PS4+PS5. Hardware is just PS5.
2022 is much more recent than 2017. I’d imagine by 2026, we’ll see these tables drop PS4.
Absolutley! But 117,2 million is full now. Maybe they'll drop it even this year?
🤷♂️ maybe…ig we’ll have to wait and see in a few wks.
I understand that, but why then One is in the chart? it sold 0 units since 2022... but have its lifetime numbers there, to help make a rating, for some reason. So, where are the WiiU numbers?
That 98,8% of share market by PS4 would be something around 75% if WiiU was in the chart, and that not only would be more correct to understand how well EVERY console really sold during that generation respect the other ones, but a more interesting chart, just for being complete. A "Rating" without all the competitors... is useless: Nintendo was not absent all those years.
If they do not want to use Switch against Ps4 and One, they have to use WiiU, easy as that. WiiU was released in december 2012, that's 1 year before One in Japan, and 1 year and 2 months before PS4 in Japan, and competed against them until march 2017.
Meanwhile, Switch was released 3 years and 8 months BEFORE PS5 and Series in Japan, but it counts as the same generation (at least, "market" generation). So, what is happening here? Why not the WiiU numbers in that last gen rating? WiiU got better ratings (NOT absolute numbers, but RATE numbers) than N64 in Japan. It had a "decent" percentatge of the domestic consoles market during that generation.
Well... I suppose very soon nothing of that will even appear anymore, but I wanted to show my disrespect for the decision of not including that console.
Because the chart is showing data from 2021 until 2024 and in 2021 there was still Xbox One data
i can see that, but that's not "lifetime" in the last chart. bah, just forget that
