PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S Sales Comparison in the US - February 2024

February 2024 is the 40th month the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S has been available for. In the latest month, the gap grew in favor of the PlayStation 5 when compared to the aligned launch of the Xbox Series X|S by 229,148 units. In the last 12 months, the PlayStation 5 has outsold Xbox Series X|S by 2.67 million units. The PlayStation 5 is currently ahead by 5.47 million units.

[purple101]

Wow this almost makes Xbox look good
But when rest of the world, Europe, Africa and Asia are taken into account, it’s a massacre

[Babadook7]

Traditionally Xbox has been strongest in NA. I think Xbone was more competitive in the region.

[IAMRealHooman]

Japanese market for Microsoft been notoriously week, 360 was their strongest gen in the region. xbone basically flatlined, series s/x i s doing better, but if you combine every xbox generation in japans sales figures, their maybe over half of the ps5 sales.

[Babadook7]

@IAM
"series s/x i s doing better"
What I'm seeing on VGChartz seems to disagree. Xbox One was not a good generation for sales even in NA but it's still better than this gen LTD (Series). However I was referring to the gap between PS4 and One vs PS5 and Series. Last gen xbox was more competitive.

[S2Killinit]

Thats a staggering sales gap in just one market.

[PhillyDonJawn]

It was tight in the US but ps5 starting to pull away. It's close in comparison to rest of world

[StormSnooper]

I wouldn’t call it “close” at all. Relatively speaking sure, but realistically? Not close at all. Remember back in the day, a mere 2 million worldwide difference used to be touted as a HUGE sales gap! This is just 1 market.

[PhillyDonJawn]

Back in the day when? 360/ps3? 360 destroyed ps3 in the USA. Ps3 made up for it world wide and shrunk the gap. So the ppl that was talking about the gap were mostly talking America it was around 12 million difference

[StormSnooper]

Destroyed? 360 launched one WHOLE year before PS3, but it was only 2 million units ahead WORLDWIDE. Then went on to surpass the 360.

Here we have is a sales gap of 5 1/2 million units in 1 country.

[dveio]

What a strange, but also impressive path of PS5's sales.

The first 1½ years, it massively suffered from shortages. As the Series did too.

Sales went down especially in Europe, where today it's behind the PS4 by about 4mill units.

Because Sony didn't want to lose to the Series in the US where the Series has always been the strongest historically, they shipped more units to the US than Europe for many months.

After 1½yrs, the PS5 then started to even outselling the PS4 globally.

Leading to being only like 800k units behind PS4 globally today (while still being 4mill units behind it in Europe).

What could have been if there were no shortages. I think total PS5 sales would be sitting at around 60 to 62mill now.

And now it's 2024.

The monthly sales ratio between Series and PS5 kept on growing (also because Series sales kept on falling). Total global sales is a 2:1 ratio, but over the last months it has actually been a 3.3:1 ratio monthly - the latest figures showing even a 3.8:1 ratio for the first week of March.

But then again Sony announced there won't be any first party releases until March 2025. So how will the next 12 months unfold in terms of hardware sales?

What a strange console generation.

[SimpleDad]

''The PlayStation 5 is currently 1.27 million units ahead the PlayStation 4 in the US when you align launches, while the Xbox Series X|S is behind the Xbox One by 2.25 million.''

That's crazy.

[Alos88]

That gap is only going to widen over time most likely- there's a reason xbox is starting to go multiplatform.

[anast]

It was simple for Xbox, release only the SX (disc and digital), produce 3 quality new IPs (that should have been baking since the middle of last gen) and milk the rest of the in house stuff and they would have been competitive. Instead, they bought publishers that are past their prime and sold a mid. gen. console that handcuffed their devs.

[StormSnooper]

I think that’s easier said than done. MS hasn’t invested in the making of games forever now. They have fallen behind, and they can’t just conjure up the know how. The purchase of previously multiplatform sections of the industry was to remedy these failed business practices, but it came at a cost that even MS can’t ignore, and this has led to realities they may not have wanted/anticipated because I’m sure some inside MS are scratching their heads, saying you just cost us more money than we’ve shown REVENUE in 4 1/2 generations of being in console business just because you didn’t invest a dime into actually being a producer of entertainment, instead of just buying loyalty. (And yes that’s gross revenue! Not profit!)

[anast]

Making games is difficult. This is something they should've known by now.