14.5 million for the fiscal year.
The 22 million would be total PS5 sales, including the portion of last fiscal year that it was available.
It's 'more than 22.6M' not '22M' since launch to the end of the current fiscal year.
Both consoles were completely sold out. The Switch was for years. This is more about who shipped more early on.
No, Switch wasn't sold out worldwide with new shipments selling out in a few minutes.
This is ignoring the context that the PS5 will have had 2 holiday periods and the Switch will be having it's second when it passes PS5. They will probably be changing places according to what point they are at in their holiday sales launch aligned. The big "IF" though, is can PS5 surpass the 20 million mark once the supply chain is in order as this was PS4's absolute best year (20 million). The Switch will do it multiple times and last fiscal year sold a montster 28.8 million.
PS5 were released November 12 in some countries and November 19 in the rest with little shipment available, it wasn't a full Holidays on its first quarter.
Switch had its first -full- holidays in its 4th quarter, so as I said in this point will temporally pass PS5 because they don't have their holidays aligned, unless Sony is able to ship a huge amount of chips this quarter. Then Sony will have its second holiday -or the first full holiday- quarter on its 5th quarter depending on when they are able to get the big chunk of thips and will catch up.
What we know is that if Sony gets the chips they secured and are manufacture the units they expect during this quarter, at the end of their 6th quarter will be the fastest selling console ever as it's now after the 3rd quarter.
The question is more when Sony is going to get the chips and the amount they will get, to see what is going to be the exact amount of these '
more than 22
.6M'. Because if they are able to ship next week a huge chunk of consoles Switch won't even temporally pass PS5. In addition to this, after the fiscal year, it will happen the same: if Sony gets enough chips will outsell Switch by a huge number to the point Switch won't temporally outsell it during its launch aligned holidays quarter, because launch aligned isn't holidays aligned.
PS5 it's outselling launch alligned PS4 until now and it's expected to outsell it after its 6th quarter while being sold out super fast and heavily supply contrained. So yes, it will have a bigger peak than the PS4. In fact, depending on when they solve the chips issue the PS5 peak year can be way higher than the PS4 one. If they had enough chips available they would sell way more than 20M in the current fiscal year, not on its peak fiscal year.
PS5 is supposed to get in 2022 Forspoken, Elder Ring, Horizon 2, GoW, GT7, Ghostwire Tokyo, FFXVI, Sifu, Stray, Howgarts Legacy, Suicide Squad, Gotham Knights and a tone of other potentially great games or with great sales and pretty likely the TLOU2 MP game who knows if with the TLOU1R and the typical yearly Insomniac game which can be Spider-Man 2 plus many more including the traditional big seller multis. Tons of games that many people will prefer to play in the new console, so if enough consoles are available PS5 is going to have a stutting year.