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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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buffig15d ago

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

Ironmike15d ago (Edited 15d 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

S2Killinit15d ago

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

buffig15d 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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Einhander197215d ago

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

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Neonridr15d ago

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

Christopher15d 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?

Neonridr12d 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.

Flewid63815d ago

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

dveio15d ago (Edited 15d 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.

itsmebryan14d 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?

dveio14d ago (Edited 14d 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.

Jigga6915d ago

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

Christopher15d 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.

dveio14d 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.

Barlos15d ago (Edited 15d ago )

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

Aloymetal15d ago (Edited 15d 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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purple10115d ago

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

Lightning7715d ago

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

Christopher15d 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_Bomb15d 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.

Einhander197215d ago

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

Scissorman15d 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?

ocelot0715d 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.

kayoss15d 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.

ocelot0715d 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.

Charlieboy33315d ago

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

ocelot0715d ago

Think that swings both way to be honest.

Tedakin15d 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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Here are some brand new screenshots for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2

Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 will be released in a few days and Microsoft has shared some new screenshots for it.

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Assassin's Creed Shadows Is 5 Years Too Late

The Nerd Stash: "Ubisoft is finally bringing players to Japan with Assassin's Creed Shadows, but this samurai/ninja epic might arrive too late."

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-Foxtrot1d 9h ago

More like 12 year...people have been going on about Japan or China since after Assassins Creed 3

Hell I even remember seeing people talk about it before Brotherhood or Revelations came out.

Ubisoft ignored people for over a decade and clearly decided to do it once they saw how successful games like Ghost of Tsushima become.

isarai7h ago(Edited 7h ago)

Well, the funny thing is in the very first game once you unlock the eagle vision outside the Animus, people deciphered the writing on the wall and it gave a lot of hints to China and japan being the next or one of the next locations. And now they only do it when someone else already did it for them, and better imo.

Hell one of the directors literally addressed people's demands to.follow through on the hints the game had, and blatantly said they will never have an AC set in that location.

Me and my friends called it while playing GoT, like "i bet Ubisoft announces an AC game set in China or Japan now" and they announce TWO 🤣

Inverno5h ago

The creators had plans for this series which where put on hold indefinitely for the milking Ubi had planned. Pretty sure they were gonna take this to Japan after 2, but then focused on Ezio. Which is why the modern day stuff fell apart too.

notachance2h ago

They know it was heavily requested so they kept it as a trump card while milking the series until it was dry. GoT finally snapped their eyes open but since you can't just release a game on the spot it takes them this long for a catch up game.

Idk how successful it will be though, with all the controversies surrounding it, either about the race stuff or ubisoft bad practices in general.

-Foxtrot1h ago

Sad thing is rumour has it that the preorder sales are "very strong"

It's like people don't give a shit about Ubisofts shitty anti consumer practices.

notachance1h ago

seriously, with only a CGI trailer?

even the forced online to install from disc stuff didn’t deter people from preordering it? I guess they are comfortable with not owning their games indeed. $70 rental holy sh*t..

victorMaje9m ago

I fear there’s a growing amount of gamers that doesn’t know any better or have been conditioned to not care.
They just want the next toy to fiddle with & stream their playthrough online. I hope I’m wrong.

victorMaje17m ago

Exactly. Ghost of Tsushima scratched that itch & then some.
Thing is Sucker Punch focused on making a great game, Ubisoft’s focus is probably once anything but.

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CrimsonWing696h ago

Better late than never. I haven’t been into an Ass Creed game since Black Flag and I only liked the non-Ass Creed parts of that game. This one will be the first I’ve played since Unity, which killed any interest I had with the series,

jznrpg1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Black Flag was a lot of fun for half of the game. But they had those stupid follow the guy missions that really broke the flow of the game and the fun. Rayman was a great too. But I haven’t wanted to play an UbiSoft game for many years and they are making it so I don’t

Friendlygamer5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

Nah, tsushima is all countryside and beach and sekiro and nioh are fantasy, a more urban feudal japan setting is fresh. Besides we get a new European medieval game every 10 minutes, why can't multiple companies do Japan ? I would love onimusha, tenchu and way of the samurai to come back.

I hate the idea of a gaming company 'owning' a setting, I want more high budget cowboy games besides red dead !!!!

neutralgamer19922h ago

Ghost of Tsushima has set a high bar for games in the vein of Assassin’s Creed. While having more options is generally beneficial, Ubisoft seems to struggle with their direction, which can sometimes undermine those benefits. If it was not for the success of Tsushima I don’t think we would ever get assassin Creed game in Japan. Even now sucker punch are a much much smarter team of developers that did Tsushima And now we have Ubisoft who have 15 studios helping making one game

Games like Ghost of Tsushima, Nioh, and Sekiro stand out because they focus on gameplay and setting without the burden of microtransactions or mandatory online connections for single-player content. They prioritize quality over quantity, something Ubisoft could learn from.

The upcoming Assassin’s Creed game will inevitably be compared to its predecessors and other high-quality titles. It needs to meet or exceed these quality standards. We don’t need another 80-100 hour marathon; we need content that offers a compelling and engaging experience.

Instead of criticizing other companies for excelling, we should encourage Ubisoft to elevate their standards. No single company owns a setting or genre, but the quality of some releases naturally sets a benchmark for others. Let’s push for better quality from Ubisoft rather than lowering our expectations

Good-Smurf1h ago

Pretty much, I hate that if its western devs ARPG they either go middle ages knights and dragons castle town brown looking or its in sci-fi soap opera.
Please branch out for once ffs.

chicken_in_the_corn5h ago

Why release it at a time when the setting is so common? Releasing it now lets it stand out more.

banger885h ago

Too late, too woke and too anti-consumer with it's drm.

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Foamstars Future Funk Now Available; New Pricing Revealed on DLC

Foamstars latest season, Future Funk, is now available for all players to enjoy. - IS

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