PS5 Best-Seller, PS5 and XS Sales Up YoY - Worldwide Hardware Estimates for January 2024

The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console worldwide with 1,385,687 units sold for January 2024, according to VGChartz estimates. The PlayStation 5 has now sold an estimated 54.17 million units lifetime worldwide.

The Nintendo Switch sold an estimated 999,745 units to bring its lifetime sales to 137.72 million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 452,119 units to bring their lifetime sales to 27.68 million units. The PlayStation 4 sold an estimated 6,642 units to bring its lifetime sales to 117.16 million units.

[Nyxus]

"PS5 sales compared to the same month for the PS4 in 2016 are up by over 224,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same month for the Xbox One are down by nearly 20,000 units. PS4 sold 1,161,413 units for the month of January 2017 and Xbox One sales were at 471,865 units."

Still outselling PS4, impressive.

[Aloymetal]

PS5 is on a steady path to reach that 100mil+ units sold by the end of this gen (Just like PS1,PS2 and PS4) and the green brand is on a steady path to reach maybe 40-45mil if they're ''lucky''.

[shinoff2183]

I swear Nintendo holding off switch 2 to try and surpass the ps2 lifetime sales

[mandf]

Yeah that's what I have thought for a bit. You are probably right.

[italiangamer]

I thought that too, wonder what the final number of Switch sold will be when they discontinue it!

[ZeekQuattro]

Nikkei says March 2025 for what that's worth. I can see them going that route again. Reveal in the Fall and release it in Spring.

[Solitariussaint]

It's too bad Switch is a handheld.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

It's a console AND a handheld, though it's a console first.

Regardless of whatever you consider it as, it's going to outsell the PS2 and it will be the highest selling console of all-time.

On the flip side, I could just as easily call the PS2 a DVD player and talk about how many years they sold it for to discredit it

[Solitariussaint]

Lol, The Switch Lite itself is a handheld only. The Switch is not a traditional home console by definition alone, and no amount of padding will make the Switch become a home console only.

Nintendo really had to dig deep to try and steal the top home console spot but only the Nintendo Wii home console broke 100 million home consoles sold without resorting to making a handheld that docks and is technologically nowhere near on par with modern current gen consoles.

Lol, PS2 had the best games that gen also, doesn't matter if it played DVDs on the side because the PS2 was still very clearly a home console only.

The Switch is very obviously a handheld that can dock, it can't play most modern gen games on it, much less badass VR games.

You guys can claim victory all you want to, but players who are keeping score know that the PS2 will remain king of home consoles until some other real home console comes along to dethrones it, but handhelds/hybrids aren't home consoles by definition.

[notachance]

there's still about 20million sales gap though.. and when the next switch is properly announced and if it's backward compatible I imagine it'd be even harder.

[Hofstaderman]

I see certain people avoiding the sales articles like the plague....lol

[Ironmike]

Oh god another fanboy comment grow up its a plastic box just enjoy ur hobby I own both enjoy both may be u grow up one day

[jznrpg]

When you grow up with you use full words?

[Sgt_Slaughter]

Bonkers to me how close the Switch is to the PS5 this far into its lifecycle.

If they sell at least a million Switches a month until March 2025 (14 months including this January), it's right behind the DS/PS2 mark. Factor in Holiday 2024 sales, which for 2023 added 4.5-5M units, and it could hit No. 1 by the Switch 2's release in just at or under 8 years (DS was on the market officially for 8 years; PS2 13 years). All of this without a single official price drop is wild.

[Solitariussaint]

The Switch is a handheld hybrid though, it's not strictly a home console like the PS2 or PS5 are. The DS was a handheld too.

[randomvoice]

Not sure why people are disagreeing lol? It is literally a handheld and console both in 1. It has replaced the 3DS and the Wii U both. For folks disagreeing, care to share the Nintendo handheld successor to the 3DS?

[ZeekQuattro]

Yup. 8 years ago peoole were predicting it would sell worse than than the Wii U. Seeing it continue to thrive and flirt with becoming the best selling videogame platform is something else. Never seen anything like it. Even if it doesn't get there getting to 140 million+ is quite the feat.

[repsahj]

Congratulations again, PS5. You almost got all the regions and areas, but switch manage to top Asian regions because of Japan.

[neomahi]

And there's still nothing to play on PS5. Look at how amazing PS1 was. How PS2 did it more and did it better. Look at how there was something always on tap for PS3! PlayStation 4 slowed down a lot but was really consumer friendly...... Then Jim Ryan took over and Herman Hulst came in and look at what we have. Devs aren't doing anything. I have this fancy new console and where is it? In a box in my closet while a PS4 standard and PS4 Pro sit under my TV each with 2TB HDDs and another external HDD so I don't have to uninstall and re-install games I want to play. PS4 Pro has all my PS4 enhanced games while my PS4 standard has 1080p games, and my PS5 is absent because my PS4 Pro can play all the same things because the PS5 is barely an upgrade and now they want to sell me a PS5 Pro with a PS6 two years later? They're incremental upgrades, just like the iPhone that comes out every year, barely better than it's previous. It's just not fun to game anymore, it's all about picking your pocket any way possible to pay for executives three houses and personal jets..... What a drag

[Solitariussaint]

PS5 has lots of games, PSVR2 also has lots of awesome games, far more than the competition.