PS4 vs Xbox One vs Switch USA Lifetime Sales – July 2017 Update

The Switch outsold the PlayStation 4 in July by 918 units for the month and the Xbox One by 120,173 units. The PlayStation 4 outsold the Xbox One by 119,255 units.

When you compare monthly sales to a year ago the PlayStation 4 is up and the Xbox One is down. The PlayStation 4 is up 60,798 units and the Xbox One is down 69,084 units.

Looking at market share for the month, the Switch managed to achieve 41 percent. The PlayStation 4 accounted for 40 percent of the consoles sold, and the Xbox One 19 percent.

PlayStation 4 Monthly Sales: 221,403

Xbox One Monthly Sales: 102,148

Switch Monthly Sales: 222,321

[FallenAngel1984]

Good lord look at those numbers for Xbox One. If it's sales are that low in its biggest territory, just think about its sales in other markets for that month

[Sam Fisher]

Everyone keeps disagreeing with me but the stocks on Xbox has decreased, its good time to purchase them like a foreclosed house and wait till the next big thing on ms and that where you sell it

[Eonjay]

The are probably just making room for the LoRs bundles. and the inevitable Forza bundle in a few weeks.

[-Foxtrot]

How is Phil still in charge when he's let 2 Japanese console rivals pass them in their home territory? Maybe the Xbox One X is his final stand and they are waiting to see how it plays out...I'll be very surprised if he makes it into next year to be honest.

I wonder what will happen if the Xbox One X doesn't do anything for them or makes little impact...like seriously what will they do?

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Xbox One is just falling behind everyone even in their own territory.

[DigitalRaptor]

How bizarre at this point, to see Xbox sales in its home territory being behind that of 2 Japanese giants.

[deadfrag]

Not bizarre at all!One have the games to sell consoles the other not so much!

[IamTylerDurden1]

MS deserves these poor sales. U can't go 9 months and release Halo Wars and Voodoo Vince and expect sales while the competition delivers killers like Horizon, Nioh, P5, GR2, Uncharted, Crash, Zelda, Splatoon, MK8 ect.

[XtreemGamer]

One can only imagine what those numbers are for Europe and the rest of the world... My guess is 5:1 for PS4.

[EyeAmTJ]

they waiting to buy the X1X duuuh

[G20WLY]

Lmao 🤣

[prankster101]

How much of the Switch's success can be attributed to it just being the new kid on the block though? Will be interesting to see how well it fares come this time next year.

Sad to see MS though... Seems like they've just given up.

[ILostMyMind]

They gave up already and jumped into the PC market.

[ABizzel1]

I expect the Switch to continue to do well for the next 3 years. Nintendo has a perfect recipe for the Switch if they follow through with their traditional handheld approach.

2017 has seen some great games for them and they already have quite a few of the best selling franchises on the device. We already have a full Zelda, Mario Kart (remake, but still), Splatoon 2 (practically a remake, but still), a 3D Mario coming soon, and the holiday season soon upon us. So sales will be strong through 2017.

2018 has a chance of bringing Smash Bros. (remake, but still), a new Animal Crossing, a new Monster Hunter (possibly), a new Yokai Watch (possibly), a new Pokemon (likely 2019), a new Metroid (likely 2019) and plenty of 2D platformers starring Kirby, Donkey Kong, and others. Pokemon along sell millions of Switch, but even if it moves to 2019 it's still has a solid line-up of their expected games and with a mediocre showing of 3rd party support it will have a good 2018.

If Pokemon makes it in 2018, they're still fine, because they can simply release the Switch Lite a cheaper entry version of the hardware for $199 and the Switch XL an improved version of the hardware sporting Tegra X2/P1 for better system performance, a bigger battery for better battery life, and hopefully more storage 64GB / 128GB for $299. That again guarantees a good 2019 sales wise.

It won't be until 2020 that sales have the potential to fall off, because by then their major franchises will all be on the device, the cost will stay around $199 / $299 until they can produce an even cheaper SKU, and PS5 / XB4 will start making their rounds.

[Felsager]

Microsoft, it is very easy to get back in competition, invest in exclusive developers and stop being stingy with investments. Halo-Gears-Forza is not enough to save the XONEX.

Two Japanese industries are making more money in your turf than your own native product. That alone gives a decisive hint.

Microsoft, your game divisor director is a dumbass, change him, otherwise you will repeat this fiasco in the PS5 cycle.

[ABizzel1]

It's too late for this gen, it generally takes at least 2 years to produce a sequel with a single team. Building brand new IP's from the ground up will take at least 3 years, and by then we're looking at PS5 and XB4. That's honestly why I feel XBO-X was a mistake and they should have just rode out 2017, and just launched a new console in 2018 and been done with this gen.

It would have been a new start, it would have given them at least 2 years to make sure the console was backwards compatible at launch, it could have had better hardware and still been $500 in 2018, and they could have launched will a solid library of games by getting Halo and Forza out of the way at launch, and by 2019 those New IP's should start seeing the light of day.

[OB1Biker]

'should have just rode out 2017, and just launched a new console in 2018'
And then a year later start getting ready to reveal the next iteration competing with PS5? Makes even less sense.

[welly300]

Id say folk are waiting on Microsoft new console.

[Tross]

Wow, and this is just US figures.