Update: Sony has officially released the PS5 Slim. All the details and links you need have been added below.
16.12.2023 - 15:14 / pushsquare.com
Fuelled by some aggressive marketing and tempting price promotions, PS5 accounted for almost half of all consoles sold in the UK during November. The system – which was massively supply constrained during previous holidays – improved a whopping 126 per cent year-on-year and 149 per cent month-on-month, driving overall hardware sales up 32 per cent compared to 2022.
In total, approximately 486,000 consoles were sold, meaning the PS5 was likely above 200,000 units for the month. To be fair, though, it was a good period for all platform manufacturers, with Xbox Series X|S up four per cent year-over-year and Nintendo Switch only down 19 per cent compared to a year ago. The latter had a new Pokémon game last November, and is obviously nearing the end of its lifecycle now.
In other related news, Sony’s Remote Play streaming platform PS Portal was the fifth best-selling accessory in November, and completely sold out at retail. It’ll be interesting to see how strongly the device rebounds once Sony is able to replenish stock.
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PS5 sales were up 149% month-on-month, and up 126% over last November.
In second place for the month was Xbox Series S and X, which saw a hefty 231% sales jump month-on-month, again due to Black Friday discounting. Compared with November 2022, Xbox sales are up 4%.
Good to see both next gen consoles doing well, and I am really looking forward to next Switch
@Sakai If the ps5 literally doing 3 times better than Xbox series x/s can you really say the Xbox is doing well.
Only half in the UK is actually not that impressive. PS5 was basically sold out during Black Friday and you could only pre-order the new model which released the week after, and basically at RRP or maybe £20 off if lucky.
@Jay767 yes, the pushsquare article and the source article from gamesindustry both mention this
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Success means different things to different people.
Xbox are very much the plucky underdog so a 4% increase is huge for that little company.
@Atreus97 Xbox isn’t an underdog Microsoft is Xbox parent company which is like worth a round 2 trillion dollars. Microsoft literally just bought two big publishers recently that’s not an underdog move.
@Sakai Xbox is down around 20% year on year for the full year and needed a massive holiday period to get back to even, a 4% increase isn’t really going to cut it.
Selling less this year than last year is absolutely not a good year for them.
@ChrisDeku exactly. I’m not trying to hate on Xbox I want it to do well myself but it’s not at the moment.
@ChrisDeku The article is discussing Novembers sales, which
Update: Sony has officially released the PS5 Slim. All the details and links you need have been added below.
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