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PS5 Sells Over 1.3M, All Consoles Drop YoY - Worldwide Hardware Estimates for March 2024

The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console worldwide with 1,338,835 units sold for March 2024, according to VGChartz estimates. The PlayStation 5 has now sold an estimated 56.89 million units lifetime worldwide.

The Nintendo Switch sold an estimated 945,038 units to bring its lifetime sales to 139.50 million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 350,932 units to bring their lifetime sales to 28.30 million units. The PlayStation 4 sold an estimated 6,238 units to bring its lifetime sales to 117.17 million units.

PS5 sales compared to the same month for the PS4 in 2017 are down by over 153,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same month for the Xbox One are down by nearly 193,000 units. PS4 sold 1,492,148 units for the month of March 2017 and Xbox One sales were at 543,701 units.

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buffig358d ago

That's a pretty small pool of players to try and flog Gamepass to

Ironmike358d ago (Edited 358d ago )

What x and s have sold 27million not that small google it and u do relise gamepass on pc as well silly comment really mt

S2Killinit358d ago

On xbox, it is a small number of consumers, which may explain why MS is continuously working to diminish console gaming.

buffig358d ago

Yes, but that existing market has stagnated. That's the problem MS has. They've sold all they can to that existing 27m. If their goal is to keep expanding Gamespass, 300k users every month is not a very big pool, when the competing market is around 1.5m per month

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Einhander1972358d ago

The xbox numbers are being inflated by 10-20% percent.

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Neonridr358d ago

PC + Xbox users amounts to quite a bit I would think.

Christopher358d ago

Steam + Xbox is quite a bit, I agree. Now, what type of argument are we trying to win with this info since both Xbox an PS games are on Steam?

Neonridr355d ago

@Christopher - my comment was more directed at the Gamepass being targeted at Xbox users only. PC is a huge market and I am willing to bet that plenty of people play Xbox titles on their PCs as opposed to consoles only.

Flewid638358d ago

PC players make up a massive chunk, but GamePass selection is never on par with PS Premium.

dveio358d ago (Edited 358d ago )

Geez.

That's almost a solid 4:1 ratio in favor of the PS5 compared to Xbox. In just the fourth year of the console generation.

itsmebryan358d ago

@dveio

I don't understand why people keep using console sales as a sign of success. Sony lost over $10 billion in value, operating income was down 26%, layoff, etc... Please explain how well financially Sony is doing compared to Microsoft. What was a smarter buy Bungie or Activision?

dveio358d ago (Edited 358d ago )

@itsmebryan

Why do you think that console sales don't matter IF a company decides to build a console and enter the console market?

Ok, let us be honest here:

Hypothetically speaking, IF the ABK deal would not had been finalized: what would be the Xbox brands state now, according to the very latest quarter report from MS?

It once again would have been dead negative.

"I don't understand why people keep using console sales as a sign of success."

Because that's what was driving Microsoft to go spend ~$100bn in aqcuisitions and billions into their Game Pass subscription model.

IF Zenimax and ABK had never happened - that's the point here.

And that's just what Microsoft does perfectly like no other. They've got a shitload of money behind them and instead of conquering market share, they simply buy it.

That's what Microsoft has been doing with everything related to Windows. And that's what they are doing with Xbox.

You are right: Sony took a hit to the gut. BUT they still drew a ~$1.3bn profit.

Jigga69358d ago

xbox series x/s doing worse than xbox one. No wonder they release their games everywhere now.

Christopher358d ago

Horse before the cart, IMHO. I feel they are doing worse on hardware *because* they put their games everywhere now and because the focus so much on subscription model gaming/streaming.

dveio358d ago

Honestly, what has changed here specifically?

Xbox Game Studios' games had always been released simultanousely on PC and Xbox. You can look way back to the very first Xbox for that. Can't you?

Having said that, what's actually behind the "they put their their games everywhere now" argument?

The ONLY thing that has changed, at least in my perceiption of the Xbox brand, is Game Pass. But even Game Pass isn't the only subscription model out there. I really don't count SoT or Grounded that high as an argument here. MS is piloting with them.

If I look at the latest quarter report of MS, I personally see nothing but a boosted Xbox revenue.

If you, just hypothetically speaking, exclude Zenimax, ABK & Co. here, like that they wouldn't have ever happened, the Xbox brand would AGAIN be economically dead/in the negatives.

And this is me speaking as a guy who actually wants competition to stay.

But I despise Microsoft for always being so blatantly incompetent to their own fan base, yet they still defend them. And I despise Microsoft for being so rich, mostly due to very shady business practices.

They don't care about videogames. They wanted to buy Nintendo and push Sony out of the market. Facts that have been exposed during the ABK trial.

The ABK mostly was the saving turnaround for them. And this speaks volumes.

Barlos358d ago (Edited 358d ago )

Bye Xbox. DO Let the door hit you on the way out.

Aloymetal358d ago (Edited 358d ago )

100%!!
Remember back when MS told the whole universe that ''project Scorpio'' aka the most powerful beast in the galaxy was going to rule and that ''this gen will be different''....Their fanbase was repeating this like gospel and I told a few here that it won't matter, nothing will change just like gamepass didn't change anything for them.

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purple101358d ago

My brother has day one Scorpio edition Xbox one. If anyone wants to buy it
Happy to sell for any colllectors

Lightning77358d ago

Gamepass is one of the only things keeping them a float what are you talking about?

Christopher358d ago

The problem is that Sony absolutely needs someone like Microsoft as competition in hardware/console. Without it, it's worse for the consumer. Much worse.

P_Bomb358d ago

I agree. A monopoly on the high end console market does me no favors. Need at least two competitors that push eachother to do better.

Einhander1972358d ago

PlayStation has competition from PC, mobile, Nintendo, streaming, and infinite other things that want to take peoples time.

Scissorman358d ago

I don't get this notion. Do people really think that if MS hardware goes away, Sony is going to start selling $5,000 consoles and $250 games? And that their audience would just accept it?

ocelot07358d ago

It's a shame what's happening to Xbox. I was genuinely a big fan during the 360 days. Didn't like the end of it didn't like the start of Xbox one. The fans did well voicing displeasure about the DRM stuff and the kinect rubbish.

But after that I see plenty of people especially on n4g but also Facebook, x, verious gaming forums go from wanting Xbox to be better and challenging Microsoft to their BS. To becoming a bunch of yes boys. Phill couldn't do any wrong in there eyes and if you dare say anything bad about Xbox you where labeled a other console fanboy.

kayoss358d ago

I honestly think that the DRM debacle can be forgiven. I think the main problem with Xbox was that they didnt have any outstanding games. They went almost an entire generation with out releasing anything significant. I think this was what kept players from investing into xbox.

ocelot07358d ago

Some of it can be forgiven. But I seem to remember the whole not being able to sell you're disc based games.

I do agree about the games. Microsoft where awful during the Xbox one generation. Just seemed to be Halo, Gears and Forza coming from them with the odd few new IP's like Sea of Thieves, Recore.

Charlieboy333358d ago

Xbox fanboys want Playstation to fail way more than they want Xbox to succeed

ocelot07358d ago

Think that swings both way to be honest.

Tedakin358d ago

All Playstation influencers do is talk about how much they hate Xbox. They never talk about Playstation. They're obsessed.

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Oblivion Remastered Breaks 4 Million Players in 4 Days

Bethesda Game Studios writes: We are so grateful to the over 4 million of you that have already ventured into Cyrodiil with Oblivion Remastered. Thank you!

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Obscure_Observer15h ago

Congrats goes to Todd and everyone at Bethesda and team Xbox for another huge milestone!

Hopefully after this huge success, Phil might greenlit New Vegas Remastered powered by UE5 as well.

Fingers crossed!

lukasmain13h ago

I wish for, at the very least, maybe Fallout 3 remaster? I mean the success of the show proves that not just hardcore gamers are ready for a great updated Fallout game. I believe it could potentially be even more successful than the Oblivion remaster. But I do like your idea of a New Vegas UE5 , because I actually never played that. Bethesda are better under Microsoft, I agree with you now after this "remaster". It's much cheaper and faster to do something like this for an old classic game. Reminds me of when Capcom started doing that with RE2. Gamer goodwill became skyhigh for Capcom. Fingers crossed indeed

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F3 Remastered already came out on the court documents, so unless it was cancelled, which sounds unlikely as it would the best they can hope to have to match any releases of the TV show since F5 isn’t coming out any time soon.

That said, I do agree that if this has proven to be a hit and I don’t see why F3 wouldn’t be if it gets the same level of treatment, they will probably want to do more

anast13h ago(Edited 13h ago)

It's on GamePass. According to Steam DB: it has a 190k peak, which is not close to 4 mil. It didn't even reach 500k on Twitch stats and owner estimations are hovering around 1 mil or less.

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lukasmain13h ago

Well done, despite not getting exact sales, this is still great news because the budget for this and the development time wouldn't have been much at all when compared to a full 6 or 7 year development window and the cost that would entail. So it does seem like a great success and even better when you consider that they shadow-dropped it without paid marketing. Hope this team is already past pre-production on another "remaster" of another classic, I'm personally hoping for Fallout 3 remaster

MaximusPrime_12h ago

Microsoft realised how stupid they had been and delayed following Sega's example.
There you go MS, worldwide lots more people own PS5 or PC than Xbox. You got the money you're desperate for.

To be truly Sega, don't bother releasing a new console. Just focus on software.

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Obscure_Observer10h ago

"To be truly Sega, don't bother releasing a new console. Just focus on software."

MS will continue to release new consoles as they´ll continue and make tons of money out PC, PS5 and Switch 2 as well.

Gamers on other platforms will happily pay full price for amazing Xbox games while we get everything day one on Game Pass.

It´s a win win for everyone.

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Oblivion Remastered Feels Like a Mirror Held Up to the RPG Genre

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is a reflective lens that highlights RPG evolution while proving the appeal of certain design philosophies.

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InZoi Is Now Getting Dangerously Close To Dropping Below The Sims 3’s Player Numbers

That fall continues.

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