Video Game Sales Thread

[Xevross]

Amazon france it has also appeared on best sellers but its only #4 and #17 for september with neither on the 2020 list.

[Xevross]

Updating my next gen sales predictions now that we know all prices.

I'll probably update again once we get a better picture of stock and whatnot. For now I'm going with lifetime of 120M PS5 and 75M xbox. Changed slightly due to great price of PS5 and very positive reaction to it plus the news of god of war in 2021 and the insane launch lineup. Growth of the overall console market due to lots more people owning two or more consoles with the Series S.

[Xevross]

PS5 #75 for the year on amazon Canada.

[Xevross]

Digital PS5 isn't in the top 100 for the year. But looking at the September chart, PS5 is #1 with the digital being #11. DualSense and the headset are selling more than the digital console at #7 and #10 for september respectively.

Next day amazon UK update. PS5 still #9 for 2020 with nothing else showing up. I wondered if there might be some kind of spillover effect but it seems that's all the sales for the consoles. On the September charts, Dualsense has moved from #7 to #5 and the headset moved from #10 to #9.

Miles Morales and Sackboy were finally added to amazon at their full prices. Ultimate edition is doing best at #34 on the hourlies, regular Miles is at #55 and Sackboy is at #174

PS5 #75 for the year on amazon Canada.

No update for France and Canada stuck too, PS5 at #76 for the year. So looks like there's no need to update the bestellers rankings for the consoles unless there's a restock. Canada the consoles are at #1 and #7 for September.

Amazon US still hasn't included PS5 in the best sellers rankings.

[Legend]

Updating my next gen sales predictions now that we know all prices.

I'll probably update again once we get a better picture of stock and whatnot. For now I'm going with lifetime of 120M PS5 and 75M xbox. Changed slightly due to great price of PS5 and very positive reaction to it plus the news of god of war in 2021 and the insane launch lineup. Growth of the overall console market due to lots more people owning two or more consoles with the Series S.

75m xbox and 120m ps5 seems possible.

Video games will keep growing. With esports and society in general changing, I could see both systems being up over current gen.

Hard to predict series s though. I think 10-20 million or 40-60 million. It will have short legs but will it have an explosive start?

[Cute Pikachu]

3d All Stars is the fifth biggest Switch debut in the UK according to Christopher Dieng. It's bigger than Galaxy 2 which did 77k units at launch, but lower than Odyssey's 100k> so it's probably around 85k debut. fudgy bonkers.

[Xevross]

3d All Stars is the fifth biggest Switch debut in the UK according to Christopher Dieng. It's bigger than Galaxy 2 which did 77k units at launch, but lower than Odyssey's 100k> so it's probably around 85k debut. fudgy bonkers.

That's a very good launch and its obviously not that limited of a physical release.

[Dr. Pezus]

That's a very good launch and its obviously not that limited of a physical release.

Wasn't it supposed to be limited in time, not stock?

Also,

PlayStation 5 Digital Edition stock far lower than standard PS5, sources say • Eurogamer.net

"ratio'd" lol

[Xevross]

Year	PS5	Xbox Series
2020	6	4.5
2021	19	10.5
2022	21	12
2023	20	13
2024	15	13
2025	12	10
2026	10	8
2027	8	5

My prediction of how hardware sell through will go this gen, assuming PS5 pro in 2023 and xbox series pro in 2024 with successors in 2027, similar to this gen. Estimated lifetime PS5 115-120M, Xbox Series 75-80M. Below are the PS4 official figures and rough XB1 estimates for reference

Year	PS4	Xbox One
2013	4.2	3
2014	14.3	8
2015	17.4	8.5
2016	17.5	9
2017	20.2	8.5
2018	18.0	7.5
2019	14.4	5
2020 est	10	3.5

[Dr. Pezus]

Year	PS5	Xbox Series
2020	6	4.5
2021	19	10.5
2022	21	12
2023	20	13
2024	15	13
2025	12	10
2026	10	8
2027	8	5

My prediction of how hardware sell through will go this gen, assuming PS5 pro in 2023 and xbox series pro in 2024 with successors in 2027, similar to this gen. Estimated lifetime PS5 115-120M, Xbox Series 75-80M. Below are the PS4 official figures and rough XB1 estimates for reference

Year	PS4	Xbox One
2013	4.2	3
2014	14.3	8
2015	17.4	8.5
2016	17.5	9
2017	20.2	8.5
2018	18.0	7.5
2019	14.4	5
2020 est	10	3.5

I think the 2021 gap might be too big. I can see it being like 18-12

[Xevross]

I think the 2021 gap might be too big. I can see it being like 18-12

PS5 is going to crush Xbox Series next year, Sony's lineup is so strong. If it does end up being something like 18-12 then Sony are in trouble. Xbox will have a better lineup from 2022 until, well, forever (unless sony dramatically expands their first party studios or bethesda games are all still published on PS).

[Dr. Pezus]

PS5 is going to crush Xbox Series next year, Sony's lineup is so strong. If it does end up being something like 18-12 then Sony are in trouble. Xbox will have a better lineup from 2022 until, well, forever (unless sony dramatically expands their first party studios or bethesda games are all still published on PS).

I think they will be published on ps5, at least the ones we know of as of now

I expect some delays for ps5 exclusives and exclusives aren't everything. They still have the cheapest console.

[Xevross]

I think they will be published on ps5, at least the ones we know of as of now

I expect some delays for ps5 exclusives and exclusives aren't everything. They still have the cheapest console.

Well I guess we'll see on that.

Series S being so cheap is the sole reason of xbox series growth over XB1 to the end of 2021, imo.

[Xevross]

Interestingly with the Mario UK sales, we know PS5 has outsold it on amazon by a decent amount and Mario sold over 80k in its first week. Although its just amazon, that does suggest a large amount of PS5s were made available to pre-order in the first batch alone. UK launch sales figures for last gen consoles were XB1 150k and PS4 250k (launch week).

I'm willing to estimate that PS5 first batch pre-order allocation was over 100k and we're looking at 300k+ total for launch. We'll see where xbox series charts.

[Legend]

PS5 2:1 Xbox Series in America, 5:1 world wide for launch.

Series x has demand but doesn't seem to have stock. For 2021 I think that'll get closer to 1.5:1 America and 3:1 world wide.

Don't think Xbox will overtake ps5 momentum until their big first party games are launching. So 2022 could be the year that xbox sells more than ps5 in America.

Don't think series s will really do anything. Very few people will upgrade to it just for better graphics. It becomes really nice once it has exclusives, but by 2022 I think it'll feel too outdated.