June 2024 Worldwide Console Sales: PS5 1 Million, Nintendo Switch 755k, Xbox Series X|S 320k
June 2024 Worldwide Console Sales: PS5 1 Million, Nintendo Switch 755k, Xbox Series X|S 320k
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I wonder how pc sales compare? I bet they’ve increased massively since everything started being released over there. Nintendo, take note
Oof it’s *still* at 3/1 for the PS5/Xbox.
I’m not a console war guy but I really don’t get why ps5 is so popular when there’s little difference between it and the series x. Maybe I’m not seeing something.
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I can’t wait for Sony to announce they’re releasing the PS6 exclusively to PC so they can sell their next game for $150.
I bought a PS4 off Craigslist last Friday so I can finally play Bloodborne and you won’t see that on this list.
Microsoft isn’t interested in hardware anymore. They make more selling game pass to pc users than focusing on hardware sales of Xbox.
MS took on some water in the later life of the 360 and completely fucked up with the Xbox One. The latter severely damaged the brand for how anticonsumer it was and even MS has admitted that the previous generation was the worst to lose due to people building their “digital profile” with those systems. So many people who picked up a PS4 after all the flak on Xbox’s end and now have entire digital libraries and social circles that were built up over the years. So they keep to PS because thats were all their stuff and friends are. It’s somewhat similar to when people stick/stuck with Apple when the Ipod Touch was rendered “obsolete” by phones because they had all that money already invested into iTunes. Lastly, I dont think its a big surprise to anyone, but Xbox hasnt really had a system seller in nearly a decade meanwhile Sony has had some absolute bangers drop at the same time. So when people are gearing up to drop $300-500 on a console, they are probably going to lean into the popular option with a solid back catalog. I think Xbox would have done somewhat better if Sony dropped the ball and didnt make the PS5 backwards compatible or completely lost their mind and went all in on digital only as intended.
Like Xbox care about the sales of the Series X/S, they are making money and they are not going anywhere.
Also console wars is not really a thing anymore, having competition in the games industry is better for everyone.
Oof.
This should show why Microsoft is focusing more on a publishing strategy now. Xbox hardware isn’t going anywhere, but I don’t think it’ll look the same in future generations. I think they’re getting ready to bow out of the high end console race.
I can see a future where the next Xbox hardware is essentially a Game Pass machine
Series S parity with the X killed any chance the X had at rivaling the PS5 imo. Who wants to develop for a console that also requires you to develop a lesser quality version as well and have them both run similar enough?
Not only that, the significant amount of time needed for a game to go through testing and optimization and then have that scaled down or up for the other system and then tested and optimized…Just ew.
I love the X, but holy fuck parity with the S is the dumbest decision and I still cant fathom why.
Honestly, it’s become a perception thing too now I think. As much as this will be hated and down voted. PS5 is for cool kids. Rappers, athletes and popular streamers are mostly all on PS5 now. If you get an XBOX you’re just sort of excluding yourself from all of that.
IDK where XBOX shot themselves in the foot with all of that but PS5 definitely became the console where all the “cool and popular” people play.
I guess it depends on the person, and the marketing mess Microsoft did to themselves with the X|S confusion didn’t help matters at all. In my country (South America) you have a really hard time finding Xbox games in stores, while you can kick a rock and find shops full of PS4/5 and Switch games. And the Series S is only seen as the “cheap Game Pass machine”.
On the personal level, I got a PS5 last month and traded my old PS4 for a VCR Xbox One with some games (wanted to play *Conker’s BFD* for a reasonable price). And after years on the PS space, *Forza Horizon* (playing 1, 3 and 4) felt like a massive breath of fresh air.
This is VGChartz and we already know their numbers are wrong.
Sony and Nintendo both released their official hardware sales numbers for the entire quarter (April-June) and they don’t line up with this very well.
As a PC player who actually uses gamepass.
Not sure why Xbox is even still a thing. Just do gamepass, it’s good.
If they some how manage to have a stellar group of exclusives and release a handheld that is compatible with the back catalogue then I think they can easily make a comeback.
People will buy it to play halo handheld alone
Nintendo and PS are pretty kiddie oriented compared to Xbox. Most grown up gamers play on PC and sometimes will buy an Xbox.
Eh i have my Xbox One X and thats enough for me