Worldwide Hardware Estimates for the Week Ending December 28 - Christmas Week

The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console worldwide with 961,543 consoles sold for the week ending December 28, according to VGChartz estimates.

The PlayStation 4 was the second best-selling console with sales of 450,810 consoles sold, followed by the Xbox One with 177,480 units, the 3DS with 9,600 units, and the PlayStation Vita with just 31 units.

[trunkswd]

Global hardware estimates (Followed by lifetime sales):

Switch - 961,543 (49,791,800)
PlayStation 4 - 450,810 (105,914,087)
Xbox One - 177,480 (46,006,382)
3DS - 9,600 (74,996,396)
PS Vita - 31 (15,901,777)

[Dovergamer]

Xbox numbers are almost inflated by 15 millions. If you research the micro processor distribution of constructed units it doesn't go over 35 million of those chips. So the true number of 35 million seems to be more accurate. The PS4 decimated the Xbox by a clean 3:1 proportion.

Microsoft closed developer teams and canceled exclusives plus the launch mistake of charging people for borrowed games. The lack of exclusives was another factor in the equation. Microsoft had one "top" exclusive for a span of 7 years, Halo 5. They where reluctant to invest money in their first party developers and exclusives.

These numbers are the consequences of their own decisions. The Switch sales sealed the third position of this irrelevant console. Microsoft lost a lot of money in the XBONE project. Their game division needs a serious revision.

[Immagaiden]

Sony and Microsoft should really be selling these systems for $200 by now

[Elda]

Agreed.

[IRetrouk]

Maybe at some point this year? The problem is they are still selling at their prices, and I'd say the platform holders like the profits on them by now lol, I think they will hit that price at some point before the new ones drop.

[Gemmol]

I rather collect the profit gen 8 is over they focus should be collect the profits from gen 8 and sell gen 9 system at a loss to catch up to the switch as quickly as they can this not Wii U situation like before

Wii U started 8th gen a year or two before ps4 and Xbox one in its head start it only had a 6 million head start which ps4 and Xbox one passed it in their first year

Switch a different type of beast tho by the time Sony and Xbox start 9th gen the switch will be over 50 million for its head start

Crazy part people on here believe switch sales will slow down a lot giving the other systems time to catch up, don’t get me wrong I think it will slow down but not the way others on here think I still think it will sell a good amount.

Problem Nintendo have in the past they went months without a first party game the solution they came up with is to merge both handheld and console team together

When they were separated they would make 11 games a year 6 for handheld 5 for console or less for console and more for handheld

Keeping up the production of making games won’t be an issue now even if they get a slow down from 3rd party teams making games

Nintendo in a better situation than the past I’m curious to see how the other 9th gen systems keep up with Nintendo now that the handheld and console team merg together

[Elda]

PS4 still selling well.

[Mr_Commander]

xbox did not sold 46M. it is closer to 39M, 40M at tops.

[Stanjara]

Who knows, but that console only sells if it is 100$ on promotion.
Edit:
But yes something is off. PS4 outsold xbox 3:1 almost the entire generation, but the overall numbers say 2:1.

[Muzikguy]

I agree those numbers are inflated. No way could PS4 sell 3 to 6 times more almost always and still only be twice as far ahead

[Neonridr]

crazy how close the Switch came to hitting 50 million.

[Gemmol]

These numbers end on December 28 for all we know it could of reach by December 31

Only 208,200 missing to reach 50 million

Regardless if it did it or not by time Nintendo announce the sales the switch will be fastest console to reach 50 million sold to customers

[Neonridr]

it's true..

[Gemmol]

To respond to your other post yes the mid gen upgrade are new for consoles

But it’s not new for Nintendo I had the Nintendo DS and then the Nintendo DSi, then you got the 3DS and it had a upgrade too

I do get your point tho although Nintendo did mid gen upgrade first they never added as much power as Xbox did with the Xbox one X so it’s a difference With Nintendo and them

Who knows maybe you right but I still feel even tho nintendo label switch as a console I have a feeling they will use handheld system life line for the system instead of their console life line

Since their handheld have long life I figure the switch be around more than 5 years maybe 7 years or more then it will get upgraded by then it will have enough time for Nintendo to create something that can be stronger than Xbox one x but weaker than ps5 as a hybrid console

Right now they can’t make anything with similar power that can also be a handheld

People don’t understand but there’s a reason why labtops cost more than desktop even if desktop have more power because anything portable or can be carried anywhere will always bring up the price no matter how much weaker the device is to the competition

If Nintendo made something similar right now the battery would not be able to keep up with the power maybe lasting less than a hour and the system would not be big enough to keep it cool with all that power to play the games

This is why phones with their 4K screens and new chips every year can’t beat Switch for games......who ever find out a way to keep a phone like the IPhone thin and still be able to keep the insides cool enough will be the richest man in the world

All types of phones are trying different ways to keep the phone cool but none work well enough for every phone company to copy the tech to use in their phone to play full games on the go

[Neonridr]

It might be possible to offer something that is somewhere between a PS4 and approaching a Pro level in terms of specs that can be form fitted into a handheld, but even that could be considerably pricey.

Who knows, we will know soon enough if Nintendo has any plans to offer a hardware upgrade. I wouldn't consider the DSi or the "New" 3DS as substantial upgrades since neither offered any sort of crazy enhancements.

[Donnie81]

yeah Sony’s the best bro!

[AzhmirGTA]

Somehow I am entertained by the idea of 31 people buying the PS Vita. Oh how much I loved it.