Sony PS5 sells twice as much as Microsoft Xbox Series X/S
About a year ago, Microsoft and Sony successively launched Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5. Since the release, thanks to the coronavirus epidemic, more home life has made the sales of this generation of game consoles very prosperous, and the supply has been in short supply. AMD, which is responsible for designing custom SoCs, and TSMC, which is responsible for chip manufacturing, have also made a fortune.
According to Wccftech, according to data from the research company Ampere Analysis, as of September 2021, Sony has sold approximately 12.8 million PlayStation 5 (disc and digital models combined) worldwide. In contrast, Microsoft is much inferior, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S two game consoles sold a total of 6.7 million units. Nearly a year after it went on sale, the PlayStation 5 family has nearly doubled the sales volume of the Xbox Series X/S. In the third quarter of 2021, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo sold a total of 9.1 million game consoles worldwide, of which 3.91 million were Nintendo Switch, slightly higher than the 3.42 million of PlayStation 5.
“Nintendo Switch has dominated global sell-through in 2021, but Q3 sales were closer between Nintendo’s family of devices and Sony’s PS5. In particular, Sony made substantial headway in Western markets where supply was improved and where demand was high”, Ampere’s games research director, Piers Harding-Rolls, writes in his article. “This culminated in PS5 outselling Switch in Europe by some distance. NPD also reported that in the US PS5 outsold Switch for the first time in September. However, Nintendo is once again expected to substantially outsell the other consoles in Q4 helped by the launch of Switch OLED, the seasonal momentum Nintendo enjoys and product availability.”
