Switch Global Sales Jump, PS5 Europe Sales Up 50% - Worldwide Hardware Estimates for Apr 24-30

The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console with 344,017 units sold for the week ending April 30, 2022, according to VGChartz estimates. The Switch has now sold an estimated 107.37 million units lifetime.

The PlayStation 5 sold an estimated 212,788 units to bring its lifetime sales to 19.47 million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 139,856 units to bring their lifetime sales to 14.43 million units.

[darthv72]

PS5 got a nice fat boost in EU sales. The gap is back to 5m between PS5 / Series.

[S2Killinit]

7 million no?

Pretty sure if supplies pick up the gap will keep getting wider. But that is a big if.

[darthv72]

Oh no doubt. Looking back at the same time last gen there was a 10m gap between PS4 / XBO. To see these two at 5m should make for a better competitive gen. Nothing like PS3 / 360 but def closer than PS4 / XBO.

[babadivad]

Is it a good thing if the gap grows to 7?

[Hedstrom]

They sell everything they produce, Europe got a big shipment and therefore it jumped in sales!

[JEECE]

MS needs to refresh Series S with a 1TB SSD. $299 is a great price and with only a few hiccups the console has been a much more capable alternative than I expected, but 512 GB is just too small for a lot of people. I mean if you get it and install MCC, that's probably a third of your space gone already.

[darthv72]

An S with 12gb of RAM would be an even better entry level system. The current one is great but I def can see that lack of RAM is more detrimental than SSD space. Especially since anyone can add an expansion card to get more.

Rumor has it that there will be a revision to both later this year. So we can likely expect a 1tb S and a 2tb X before the end of the year. Also there should be another choice for expansion cards soon from WD.

[John_McClane]

I'd love to see some competition with the expansion cards.

[TravsVoid]

I can see down the line having a slim model that's cheaper and then a version with double the storage at the current price. A better idea for a refresh is to include a disc drive. A cheaper console is usually bought by people on a budget and physical media usually has better deals.

[ironmonkey]

Whose in 3rd place?

[MadLad]

Ask a random fanboy.
They're literally the only people who care. Got to keep that childish little "war" going lol