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[GFK]In Germany, Console sales up over 90% in H1 2023. PS5 sold three times compared to last year..
Tiago Rodrigues
Gold Member
Jesus…that ps5 x series gap is…something
systemr123
Banned
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Insane Metal
Gold Member
Even the PS4 had a bump in sales. Meanwhile the Xbox Series... ouch.
Tarnpanzer
Member
Reason is PS5 was very hard to get last year in Germany. Right now it is no problem to get one in retail.
VitoNotVito
Member
The King is back (well, he was always there on top).
Electret
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Daneel Elijah
Member
Replace Germany with Europe and it will be perfect. Sony are on a roll. I hope that they smash their objectives this year and work hard to give us the games we need to use those PS5 more! And a PS5 Pro next year please Sony
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
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I told you so. No one gives a sh*t about XBOX in the rest of the world. The brand has been killed by MS since the very early days of the XBOX One and they had never recover since then in Europe, UK included. MS never put the money to make a proper come back. They did not care at all and they still don't care at all about Europe and Japan.
XBOX is now a US only thing that only US cares about thanks to MS.
XBOX is now a US only thing that only US cares about thanks to MS.
Tsaki
Member
If we assume that this chart is a 1-to-1 scale, then by pixel counting, Series consoles sales are over -30% when compared to last year. At the same time PS5 sales are being pixel-counted to ~240% over last year, so it's either not 1-to-1 scale or they didn't think that extra 40% was worth mentioning when compared to just saying "three times".
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Germany First Half: PS5 outsold Xbox Series 10-to-1
PS5 controls two thirds of the market, sales have tripled year-on-year
PS4, NSW sales up
Xbox Series sales have been down almost 18% in 2023
Console market up 90% (hardware unit sales)
Source: GfK (Presseportal)
PS5 controls two thirds of the market, sales have tripled year-on-year
PS4, NSW sales up
Xbox Series sales have been down almost 18% in 2023
Console market up 90% (hardware unit sales)
Source: GfK (Presseportal)
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This is beyond wild.
Wildebeest
Member
Did someone release a new bus driver simulator exclusively on PS5 or something?
sankt-Antonio
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Buddy of mine, casual gamer who gamed on PC forever, bought a PS5 because he had no nerve for all the broken PC releases and refused to pay these high gfx card prices.
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Zelda effect.
Overall, you can basically apply this data to every European market, in all honesty.
kazuyamishima
Member
Germany is possibly the only place WW that the Switch is up YoY.
Everywhere else is down YoY.
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Supply problems, maybe? But yeah, Germany alwas was kinda strange at places (European PC stronghold after all).
prinz_valium
Member
Not many.
PS5 sold less than 650k units in 2022 in Germany.
Majority of those were in the second half.
PS4 sold already 1m in the first full year after release. Went up to 1.5m
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Thirty7ven
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PS5 sold more than all other consoles combined.
Woopah
Member
Another bit of information is that retail software sales are up 2%. The top 3 selling titles were TOTK, Hogwarts Legacy and FIFA 23.
I was expecting Zelda to just slow down decline, so to lead to an increase is impressive.
For context, in all of 2022 Switch sold around 790,000 and PS5 sold around 630,000.
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kazuyamishima
Member
Scratch that, the data is revenue not units sold.
So as someone mentioned on IB, it could mean that more OLED’s were sold and less Lite’s compared to 2022.
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ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Oh, well, That explains a lot.
KaiserBecks
Member
No, it’s finally available.
kazuyamishima
Member
Yearly sales for 8th and 9th generation systems in Germany, 2012-2022 period (estimates from CESA white paper).
Graph thanks to Astral_lion2 from IB
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mejin
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Daneel Elijah
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emivita
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
How can MS truly grow GamePass if their hardware sales are going down year over year?
NickFire
Member
Same way I suspect they have planned for a couple years.
Just buy up content, and make it all exclusive.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Woopah
Member
Why would Starfeild have an effect in July?
Gorgon
Member
Why wouldn't it? I bought an XSX in June because of Starfield and played a couple of exclusives in the meanwhile.
And a new Farming Simulator or some obscure spreadsheet game.
Gaelyon
Member
So the 3 consoles manufacturers managed each some kind of record :
- Switch improve its revenue despite being a 6 years old machine.
- Playstation is overwhelming the German market (console wise) with an increase unheard of.
- X-box manage to lower its revenue and market share to nearly be irrelevant, on its 3rd year only, which is sad ; I don't think any MS console was in that bad situation in this country at the same age.
- Switch improve its revenue despite being a 6 years old machine.
- Playstation is overwhelming the German market (console wise) with an increase unheard of.
- X-box manage to lower its revenue and market share to nearly be irrelevant, on its 3rd year only, which is sad ; I don't think any MS console was in that bad situation in this country at the same age.
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Great sales for a great country.
Woopah
Member
Becuase games don't have a noticeable impact on hardware before they come out. It would be like expting Switch to get a boost from TOTK in February or March.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
I hate the fact that you're right here. MS just doesn't need to produce at a high level, because at the end of the day, they can just throw billions of dollars at their shortcomings to purchase victories.
Gorgon
Member
I doubt that's the case (although I could be wrong). I think that sales would pick up substantially at least during the preceeding month of a game's release, in this case since August. And I would have expected an uptick already in July. But I do agree that outlier sales continue for a while after a game is released.
Another possibility is that the "Starfield effect" is already accounted for (at least partially), meaning that Xbox sales would have been even lower if not for Starfield. But who knows.
Anyway, curious to see what happens to Xbox sales in the upcoming months.
Woopah
Member
At least from previous sales data that's not what we see.
Again we saw a clear boost for Switch when TOTK came out and when the special edition came out, not before.
Likewise FFXVI gave PS5 a big boost in Japan the week it came out, not in April or May.