PS5 Sells Over 1.3M, All Consoles Drop YoY - Worldwide Hardware Estimates for March 2024

The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console worldwide with 1,338,835 units sold for March 2024, according to VGChartz estimates. The PlayStation 5 has now sold an estimated 56.89 million units lifetime worldwide.

The Nintendo Switch sold an estimated 945,038 units to bring its lifetime sales to 139.50 million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 350,932 units to bring their lifetime sales to 28.30 million units. The PlayStation 4 sold an estimated 6,238 units to bring its lifetime sales to 117.17 million units.

PS5 sales compared to the same month for the PS4 in 2017 are down by over 153,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same month for the Xbox One are down by nearly 193,000 units. PS4 sold 1,492,148 units for the month of March 2017 and Xbox One sales were at 543,701 units.

[buffig]

That's a pretty small pool of players to try and flog Gamepass to

[Ironmike]

What x and s have sold 27million not that small google it and u do relise gamepass on pc as well silly comment really mt

[S2Killinit]

On xbox, it is a small number of consumers, which may explain why MS is continuously working to diminish console gaming.

[buffig]

Yes, but that existing market has stagnated. That's the problem MS has. They've sold all they can to that existing 27m. If their goal is to keep expanding Gamespass, 300k users every month is not a very big pool, when the competing market is around 1.5m per month

[Einhander1972]

The xbox numbers are being inflated by 10-20% percent.

[Neonridr]

PC + Xbox users amounts to quite a bit I would think.

[Christopher]

Steam + Xbox is quite a bit, I agree. Now, what type of argument are we trying to win with this info since both Xbox an PS games are on Steam?

[Neonridr]

@Christopher - my comment was more directed at the Gamepass being targeted at Xbox users only. PC is a huge market and I am willing to bet that plenty of people play Xbox titles on their PCs as opposed to consoles only.

[Flewid638]

PC players make up a massive chunk, but GamePass selection is never on par with PS Premium.

[dveio]

Geez.

That's almost a solid 4:1 ratio in favor of the PS5 compared to Xbox. In just the fourth year of the console generation.

[itsmebryan]

@dveio

I don't understand why people keep using console sales as a sign of success. Sony lost over $10 billion in value, operating income was down 26%, layoff, etc... Please explain how well financially Sony is doing compared to Microsoft. What was a smarter buy Bungie or Activision?

[dveio]

@itsmebryan

Why do you think that console sales don't matter IF a company decides to build a console and enter the console market?

Ok, let us be honest here:

Hypothetically speaking, IF the ABK deal would not had been finalized: what would be the Xbox brands state now, according to the very latest quarter report from MS?

It once again would have been dead negative.

"I don't understand why people keep using console sales as a sign of success."

Because that's what was driving Microsoft to go spend ~$100bn in aqcuisitions and billions into their Game Pass subscription model.

IF Zenimax and ABK had never happened - that's the point here.

And that's just what Microsoft does perfectly like no other. They've got a shitload of money behind them and instead of conquering market share, they simply buy it.

That's what Microsoft has been doing with everything related to Windows. And that's what they are doing with Xbox.

You are right: Sony took a hit to the gut. BUT they still drew a ~$1.3bn profit.

[Jigga69]

xbox series x/s doing worse than xbox one. No wonder they release their games everywhere now.

[Christopher]

Horse before the cart, IMHO. I feel they are doing worse on hardware *because* they put their games everywhere now and because the focus so much on subscription model gaming/streaming.

[dveio]

Honestly, what has changed here specifically?

Xbox Game Studios' games had always been released simultanousely on PC and Xbox. You can look way back to the very first Xbox for that. Can't you?

Having said that, what's actually behind the "they put their their games everywhere now" argument?

The ONLY thing that has changed, at least in my perceiption of the Xbox brand, is Game Pass. But even Game Pass isn't the only subscription model out there. I really don't count SoT or Grounded that high as an argument here. MS is piloting with them.

If I look at the latest quarter report of MS, I personally see nothing but a boosted Xbox revenue.

If you, just hypothetically speaking, exclude Zenimax, ABK & Co. here, like that they wouldn't have ever happened, the Xbox brand would AGAIN be economically dead/in the negatives.

And this is me speaking as a guy who actually wants competition to stay.

But I despise Microsoft for always being so blatantly incompetent to their own fan base, yet they still defend them. And I despise Microsoft for being so rich, mostly due to very shady business practices.

They don't care about videogames. They wanted to buy Nintendo and push Sony out of the market. Facts that have been exposed during the ABK trial.

The ABK mostly was the saving turnaround for them. And this speaks volumes.

[Barlos]

Bye Xbox. DO Let the door hit you on the way out.

[Aloymetal]

100%!!
Remember back when MS told the whole universe that ''project Scorpio'' aka the most powerful beast in the galaxy was going to rule and that ''this gen will be different''....Their fanbase was repeating this like gospel and I told a few here that it won't matter, nothing will change just like gamepass didn't change anything for them.

[purple101]

My brother has day one Scorpio edition Xbox one. If anyone wants to buy it
Happy to sell for any colllectors

[Lightning77]

Gamepass is one of the only things keeping them a float what are you talking about?

[PhillyDonJawn]

You talking about sales or consumer satisfaction?

[Christopher]

The problem is that Sony absolutely needs someone like Microsoft as competition in hardware/console. Without it, it's worse for the consumer. Much worse.

[P_Bomb]

I agree. A monopoly on the high end console market does me no favors. Need at least two competitors that push eachother to do better.

[Einhander1972]

PlayStation has competition from PC, mobile, Nintendo, streaming, and infinite other things that want to take peoples time.

[Scissorman]

I don't get this notion. Do people really think that if MS hardware goes away, Sony is going to start selling $5,000 consoles and $250 games? And that their audience would just accept it?

[ocelot07]

It's a shame what's happening to Xbox. I was genuinely a big fan during the 360 days. Didn't like the end of it didn't like the start of Xbox one. The fans did well voicing displeasure about the DRM stuff and the kinect rubbish.

But after that I see plenty of people especially on n4g but also Facebook, x, verious gaming forums go from wanting Xbox to be better and challenging Microsoft to their BS. To becoming a bunch of yes boys. Phill couldn't do any wrong in there eyes and if you dare say anything bad about Xbox you where labeled a other console fanboy.

[kayoss]

I honestly think that the DRM debacle can be forgiven. I think the main problem with Xbox was that they didnt have any outstanding games. They went almost an entire generation with out releasing anything significant. I think this was what kept players from investing into xbox.

[ocelot07]

Some of it can be forgiven. But I seem to remember the whole not being able to sell you're disc based games.

I do agree about the games. Microsoft where awful during the Xbox one generation. Just seemed to be Halo, Gears and Forza coming from them with the odd few new IP's like Sea of Thieves, Recore.

[Charlieboy333]

Xbox fanboys want Playstation to fail way more than they want Xbox to succeed

[ocelot07]

Think that swings both way to be honest.

[rlow1]

Which ones?

[Tedakin]

All Playstation influencers do is talk about how much they hate Xbox. They never talk about Playstation. They're obsessed.

[Eonjay]

At the end of the day it's about the consumer and their purchasing choice.

[kayoss]

And what the company can offer to the consumers. Xbox have shown time and time that they are unable to deliver.

[Cockney]

Another month and another 90,000 series x sold is quite something

[hiawa23]

No surprise on the PlayStation front, and it makes sense to me for MS to put their games on as many platforms as they can. More options for gamers, i.e. getting your games in the most gamers hands is best for all gamers and to me would end the toxic fanboy mentality. Play everything.

[badz149]

The PS4 was going for its best year in 2017 selling over 20mil units.

[Scissorman]

This just proves what many of us have known for years. The Xbox brand is simply lame. Microsoft honestly expected to win the current generation over with a more powerful console and a warchest of freshly purchased studios and publishers. But no one wants it. Yes, it has an audience, but outside of the US the market for Xbox negligible.