The sales of PlayStation 5 is currently exceeding sales of its predecessor, the PS4, while the consoles of the Xbox series are more behind the rhythm of the Xbox One. Mat Picatella, executive director and analyst of the video game industry at Circana, said that the launch was aligned, sales for the life of the PS5 are 7% in front of the PS4 after the launch.
This is judged on a 50 -month scale, but with a shorter calendar of 38 months, the trend remained similar to the PS5 leading by 6%. For the Xbox, the scenario is somewhat returned. On a 50 -month calendar, the consoles in the Xbox series are 18% behind where the Xbox One was, while on the chronology of 38 months, the pace of Xbox One was 13% faster. This is a revealing comparison between the two competitors when it is judged directly on a scale.
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It was not specified if the sales of the PS5 PRO were taken into account in these statistics, but it is probably included in the totals. The fact that Sony has published an improved version of its console might seem like a factor contributing to its higher sales, but the PS4 Pro was published three years after the PS4, which is in the four -year window between the PS5 and the PS5 PRO.
On the other hand, Microsoft did not upgrade the Xbox Series range, still only having the S and X series, the latter being the most powerful option. To judge by the data, it is possible to conclude that the lack of upgrades for the Xbox affected its sales compared to the Xbox One, the Xbox One S was published in 2016, three years after the console .
How did the PS5 sell over time?
These relatively higher sales are A contrast striking with the way the PS5 sold in 2020. At that time, supply problems caused a major obstacle to PS5 sales, players unable to get their hands for months at the same time. This has also led to many third -party sales too many prices, which transformed the availability of the console into a joke.
It seems that Sony has compensated for this loss in the past four years. While the Xbox Series X had difficulties with similar supply problems, the S series had fewer availability problems, allowing more players to get their hands on an Xbox before a PS5. This rate of sale at launch gave the impression that the Xbox consoles would be ahead of the PS5 at this stage, but by looking at the figures, this is simply not the case.
Whatever the reasons, it is clear that the PS5 has not only exceeded its competition but has also exceeded its predecessor. This also contradicts the general tendency to sales of consoles today, where sales of 2024 were 25% lower than those of 2023, signaling a change in the desire of consumers to buy new consoles. However, for what it is worth, it seems that Sony has come out victorious in console wars, or anything.
Source: Tweaktown
