Year on Year Sales & Market Share Charts - June 16, 2018

Microsoft
Xbox One – Up Year-on-Year 263,272 (13.7%)

Nintendo
Nintendo Switch - Up Year-on-Year 834,151 (21.1%)
Nintendo 3DS – Down Year-on-Year 671,554 (-31.9%)

Sony
PlayStation 4 – Down Year-on-Year 676,567 (-9.4%)
PlayStation Vita – Down Year-on-Year 318,337 (-69.8%)

[DialgaMarine]

Kindof sucks that PS4 is down YoY, but I guess it’s to be expected. Looks like it’s still on track to beat PS2’s record of how fast it got to 100 million, though. Spider Man, BO4, and RDR2 should definitely help put out some serious hardware numbers this holiday.

[Rude-ro]

It’s a numbers game pr spin approach.
Ps4 has not struggled all gen. They also had a really good year last year where Microsoft had a really bad year last year as any interested consumer waited on the x.
One is easier to show growth when they just released the x vs Sony with 80 million consoles already sold and the pro already over a year old.
Year over year growth with three of the worst years on record for a Microsoft console is not hard to spin.

[DialgaMarine]

Oh I know. I was just thinking 2018 was going to be PS4’s peak year, what with the heavy hitting titles like GoW, Spider Man, and RDR2. It’s still doing amazing numbers, and is on track to reach 130 million LT, if PS5 doesn’t launch until late 2021. Will be very interesting to see.

It’s pretty cool that PS4 is the only console that’s down YoY, but is still beating out the competition by a pretty huge margin.

[Ashlen]

Sony is down 10% Microsoft is up 15% yet PS4 has still sold more than 3x the number of consoles so far this year.

[DialgaMarine]

Yup. PlayStation Domination across all the nations. Power = meh if it doesn’t put to use.

[UCForce]

I’m sure those games will boost PS4 units massively.

@DigitalMarine I know. It’s going to be good year for PS4 owners.

[DialgaMarine]

Especially if they get bundles. Can you imagine a LE PS4 Pro that is Red and Blue, with black webbing over it, and a black/ white spider in the center? That’d sell millions alone if it were even possible to make that many lol

[OB1Biker]

This year can still be PS4 peak year.
If you check out 2016 vs 2017 was an amazing first half but the gap slowed down in second half. 2016 vs 2018 shows 30% up

[DialgaMarine]

We’ll definitely see. That’d be pretty incredible, not often a console peaks in its 5th.

[corroios]

Microsoft is so far away that is scary. They need a new strategy. Its Just not working what they are doing now.

[ClanPsi1]

They need to give up.

[Prince_TFK]

Why?

[Bathyj]

Cos they're taking up real estate that a better competitor could be using. Let face it, with all their money and all their tech savvy and resources they really are doing a shit job. It's like Usain Bolt not getting a medal in the special Olympics.

[Prince_TFK]

“Cos they're taking up real estate that a better competitor could be usin”

What real estate? Dude be real. There is no limit as to how many consoles can be on the market. MS doesn’t have to die so that other consoles can exist.

The delusional on this site is so real.

[Hardiman]

The only thing they could do would be let devs (talented devs) have more creative control and release awesome games and SP games at that. Basically the opposite of what they're approach is now!

[King_Lothric]

If this official information from Sony of just guessing estimates.

[johndoe11211]

it's vgchartz, go figure.

[ClanPsi1]

I don't think they quite understand what the words "market share" mean. It doesn't have to do with yearly sales, it's calculated with respect to TOTAL sales. Who runs VGChartz? Have they never been to school?

[johndoe11211]

It's vgchartz so I'm gonna take a wild guess and say.....no....no they have not.

[Elda]

Sony still has sold the most consoles out of all current gen consoles which means the PS4 is the #1 leading console worldwide.

[DerekTweed]

Here we see data representing the global sales through to consumers and change in sales performance of the FOUR HOME CONSOLES and FOUR HANDHELDS over comparable periods for 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

First paragraph in the article is wrong, can't trust the rest of the article.

I'm sure the data is pretty close but making mistakes as simple as that does not bode well for the professionalism of the writers.

And another thing I want to point out is this is only looking ath the 1st 6 months of each year exceot the total market share section, which is why PS4 was 20 million in 2017 and only 6.5million in 2018.