PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch 2024 Americas Sales Comparison Charts Through December - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 26 January 2025 / 5,942 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 December 2021)
2022 – (January 2022 to December 2022)
2023 – (January 2023 to December 2023)
2024 – (January 2024 to December 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
- 3.26 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 1.47 million units (-31.0%)
Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch
- 3.84 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 1.96 million units (-33.7%)
Sony
- PlayStation 5
- 6.99 million units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 0.94 million units (-11.8%)
- PlayStation 4
- 15,686 units sold year-to-date
- Down year-on-year 0.07 million (-82.2%)
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 Bluesky.
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PS5 and NSW holding up well!
This year (2025) is hard to predict how much each system will do.
-For Switch it's going into it's 9th year and don't know if a price cut is coming to help sales. With the Switch 2 sales for Switch will dip.
-For PS5 and Xbox Series, this is the year we will see mostly (90%+) of games not being on PS4 and Xbox One, so those people still on those platforms are more likely to upgrade. Both platforms will have sales and possibly a price cut at the end of the year. Now of course speaking of games the big one is GTA 6 (and probably COD and sports games) only being on current consoles. Another one is the Switch 2, where if this year is an extremely strong year (not just from Nintendo but 3rd party) it could take attention away from PS5 and Xbox Series.
With that said my predictions for this year in Americas are...
-PS5: 5.8 - 6.0 million
-Xbox Series: 2.8 - 3.0 million
-Switch: 1.8 - 2.0 million
-Bonus Switch 2: 8.0 - 8.5 million
-33% is quite good for an 8 years old handheld thats about to be replaced! Seriously? Why downvoting. Only because its the truth? For the whole year the Switch is down ~25% wich is amazing for an 8th year. So much sensibility going on in some hearts, thats unbeliavable. Soon i will have to talk so some people like if they where children. Only because they don't want to see some systems perform well...
weird to call XBSXS a handheld but okay. (and im pretty sure it’s only 4yo…)
I am talking about the Switch.
