The PS5 console sales are tracked ahead of the US PS4, and the Xbox Series Console sales are behind Xbox One.
According to Mat Piscatella, the executive director and video game industry analyst of Circana (formerly NPD Group), who summarizes the latest US sales data.
In the latest monthly sales report of the company this week, Piscatella said that the PS5 -unit sales are now tracking more than the PS4 at the same time at the life cycle of the two console.
On the other hand, the Xbox Series Console Sales was behind the Xbox One and fell behind the PS4 and emphasized the wide difference between the machines.
Piscatella said, “In the US market, the first 50 months of each console (life that ends in December 2024 for XBS and PS5) is 7% ahead of the PS4’s pace and Xbox Series is Blue 18% ahead of Xbox One. In the thread of skiing.
“In the US 38 months (until December 2023), PS5 led PS4 6% and XBS increased XBO by 13%.”
In August, Sony said that the PS5 sold 66 million units. Microsoft does not report hardware numbers, but the Wall Street Journal reported that the Xbox series console sold about half of the PS5 in September.
Piscatella posted a video game hardware spending in December to $ 1.1B, down 29%.
“Spending on PlayStation 5 hardware has decreased by 18% compared to the Xbox series compared to December 2023, and each decrease was 38%. Annual spending on video game hardware is $ 4.9b, down 25% from 2023. ”
Piscatella recognizes that Nintendo Switch is one of the elements of reduced hardware sales at the end of the life cycle. Nintendo will release Nintendo Switch 2, the next console this year.
In other places in Circana data, US spending on video games was 1.1% in 2024 compared to 2024.
Sales of content (software, DLC and subscription) and accessories increased by 2% and 6%, respectively, so expenditures for video game hardware decreased by 25%.
