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PS5 Best-Seller as Sales Top 20M Lifetime

by William D’Angelo, published on 01 October 2024/ 7,440 Views

The PlayStation 5 was the very popular console in Europe with 286,721 systems cost August 2024, according to VGChartz price quotes. The PlayStation 5 has actually now offered an approximated 20.29 million systems life time in Europe.

The Nintendo Switch offered an approximated 170,670 systems to bring its life time sales to 36.58 million systems. The Xbox Series X|S offered 74,059 systems to bring their life time sales to 7.92 million systems. The PlayStation 4 offered an approximated 1,038 systems to bring its life time sales to 45.86 million systems.

PS5 sales compared to the exact same month for the PS4 in 2017 are down by over 68,000 systems, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the very same month for the Xbox One are down by over 31,000 systems. PS4 offered 354,875 systems for the month of August 2017 and Xbox One sales were at 105,281 systems.

PlayStation 5 sales compared to the very same month a year earlier are down by 316,336 (-52.5%). Xbox Series X|S sales are down by 49,873 systems (-40.2%) and Nintendo Switch sales are down by 72,447 systems (-29.8%). The PlayStation 4 is down by 5,133 systems (-83.2%) year-over-year.

Taking a look at sales month-on-month, PlayStation 5 sales are up by almost 27,000 systems, Xbox Series X|S sales are down by almost 10,000 systems, and Nintendo Switch sales are up by almost 26,000 systems.

2024 year-to-date, the PlayStation 5 has actually offered an approximated 2.82 million systems, the Nintendo Switch has actually offered 1.38 million systems, and the Xbox Series X|S has actually offered 0.57 million systems.

Month-to-month Sales:

Europe hardware approximates for August 2024 (Followed by life time sales):

  1. PlayStation 5 – 286,721 (20,285,456)
  2. Change – 170,670 (36,578,234)
  3. Xbox Series X|S – 74,059 (7,922,397)
  4. PlayStation 4 – 1,038 (45,857,246)

Weekly Sales:

Europe August 10, 2024 hardware price quotes:

  1. PlayStation 5 – 64,052
  2. Change – 39,286
  3. Xbox Series X|S – 19,173
  4. PlayStation 4 – 305

Europe August 17, 2024 hardware quotes:

  1. PlayStation 5 – 68,433
  2. Change – 41,608
  3. Xbox Series X|S – 18,113
  4. PlayStation 4 – 278

Europe August 24, 2024 hardware price quotes:

  1. PlayStation 5 – 81,079
  2. Change – 44,753
  3. Xbox Series X|S – 17,321
  4. PlayStation 4 – 236

Europe August 31, 2024 hardware price quotes:

  1. PlayStation 5 – 73,157
  2. Change – 45,023
  3. Xbox Series X|S – 19,452
  4. PlayStation 4 – 219

VGChartz Methodology: Hardware price quotes are based upon retail tasting and patterns in private nations, which are then theorized to represent the broader area. This usually permits us to produce figures that wind up being within 10% of the real overalls.

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