European Sales YTD July 2024 - PS5 1.5 million, Switch 780k and Xbox 210k

[FatKaz]

Credit to astral lion on install base for this hardware sales leak

EU Hardware YTD (July 2024)

PS5 - 1.50M (-23%)
NSW - 0.78M (-32%)
XBS - 0.21M (-38%)

EU Hardware YTD (June 2024)

PS5 - 1.3M (-16%)
NSW - 0.7M (-32%)
XBS - 0.2M (-37%)

As usual:
Console hardware sales cover Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

 

[FatKaz]

Those xbox numbers are dire.

Only 10k xbox consoles sold in july.

 

[Fenton]

 

[mibu no ookami]

Xbox is dead outside of the US and UK.

The only reason why they haven't already announced Halo for PS5 is because they want to keep selling inventory. They'll go with Starfield and Forza Horizon first, but eventually Halo will come and that will probably be enough to send Xbox consumes over the edge.

Right now even in diminished numbers they're still buying in the US.

 

[Yurinka]

Those xbox numbers are dire.

Only 10k xbox consoles sold in july.

When I saw the numbers I thought "Xbox sold 210K units that month", that's fine. Later I saw it's YTD instead, not for the month.

 

[Sircaw]

How the hell did you find a picture of @peter42O

Sorry Peter, born bad.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

These are Saturn numbers for Xbox in Europe (excluding UK). Could even be below what the Saturn was managing in those countries back in the day

 

[ethomaz]

I won’t talk about others failures…

But PS5 sales are lower than what PS consoles normally to in Europe even in it 4th year.
Europe sales is dragging any chance of PA5 selling more than PS4.
I mean the drop in Europe is so bit that even with PS5 doing better in US and Asia it is still behind overall.

It needs a price cut there and not rise.
That 50 price in Europe was a killer move against PlayStation there.

 

[Dick Jones]

These are Saturn numbers for Xbox in Europe (excluding UK). Could even be below what the Saturn was managing in those countries back in the day

I was actually googling buying a Sega Saturn today. I've a Landstalker itch to play Dark Saviour. I doubt 28 years time people will look for an Xbox Series X

 

[YeezyDude]

Not bad... But I think the PS5/PS5 Pro/NS 2 sales will be very good during 2025, 2026 etc.!

 

[Muddasar]

I won’t talk about others failures…

But PS5 sales are lower than what PS consoles normally to in Europe even in it 4th year.
Europe sales is dragging any chance of PA5 selling more than PS4.
I mean the drop in Europe is so bit that even with PS5 doing better in US and Asia it is still behind overall.

It needs a price cut there and not rise.
That 50 price in Europe was a killer move against PlayStation there.

Definitely true about PS5 sales.

Combination of cost of living/inflation and the PS5 price.

The PS5 needs a price drop and time to release the PS5 Pro.

Many people are waiting for a price drop and the Pro.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

I was actually googling buying a Sega Saturn today. I've a Landstalker itch to play Dark Saviour. I doubt 28 years time people will look for an Xbox Series X

Do it if you can find a system at a reasonable price. They tend to be, specifically Japanese models, but then you might want to look into one of those SD card mods if you're weary of using discs that could wear down the drive.

Or a mod chip to play Saturn games from other regions. Usually for physical, the Japanese versions are way cheaper than the Western releases, but I dunno if there's anything like a text hooker for patched translations on original hardware. You'd have to rip an ISO of your copy and patch a translation, re-burn it then run that on a modified Japanese system.

But yeah, to the other point, no Xbox system beyond the OG or 360 will have any sort of nostalgia to it. Series S & X are already forgotten by the majority and the gen's only halfway over!

 

[peter42O]

How the hell did you find a picture of @peter42O

Sorry Peter, born bad.

Hahaha. That's just wrong man. lol

 

[Yurinka]

But PS5 sales are lower than what PS consoles normally to in Europe even in it 4th year.
Europe sales is dragging any chance of PA5 selling more than PS4.
I mean the drop in Europe is so bit that even with PS5 doing better in US and Asia it is still behind overall.

It needs a price cut there and not rise.
That 50 price in Europe was a killer move against PlayStation there.

PS5 is way more expensive than previous PS consoles were at this point.

They couldn't price cut it and instead had to increase prices because its costs grew over time instead of reducing over time as happened in other consoles.

Plus there has been a huge inflation in Europe, an economical crisis (even more with the sanctions to Russia) and on top of that there has been consoles shortages.

They can't and apparently won't be able to reduce costs from hardware. So have to reduce costs and increase profitability from everywhere else to compensate it and hopefully be able to price cut it in the future compensating the loses from selling hardware (which would be higher if price cutted) with profit from somewhere else.

 

[BillyZ]

Price wouldn't be an issue if the PS5 was a must own console. But the dumbasses at Sony decided to port their games to PC so

 

[SuperPotato]

Price wouldn't be an issue if the PS5 was a must own console. But the dumbasses at Sony decided to port their games to PC so

The general market doesn't care about PC ports. Price absolutely is the main issue here. It has only gotten more expensive since launch.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

Price wouldn't be an issue if the PS5 was a must own console. But the dumbasses at Sony decided to port their games to PC so

Absolutely. They are celebrating their legacy with Astrobot and the 30th celebration but their legacy can be played on a SteamDeck, advertised with Nvida cards and played with Xbox controllers

It's even more apparent they lost their way.

 

[arvfab]

The general market doesn't care about PC ports. Price absolutely is the main issue here. It has only gotten more expensive since launch.

You should have a look at Germany and how they care.

 

[Johnic]

Price wouldn't be an issue if the PS5 was a must own console. But the dumbasses at Sony decided to port their games to PC so

How much is that PS5 equivalent PC again and how do you convince a casual to buy a PC?

This has nothing to do with PC and everything to do with launching during a global pandemic that caused MASSIVE supply shortages and the following economic issues that caused a price increase in everything, including living cost and the price of materials used to make these consoles.

 

[BillyZ]

How much is that PS5 equivalent PC again and how do you convince a casual to buy a PC?

This has nothing to do with PC and everything to do with launching during a global pandemic that caused MASSIVE supply shortages and the following economic issues that caused a price increase in everything, including living cost and the price of materials used to make these consoles.

I would say around 1000. How do you convince a casual? Easy. You need a PC anyway so spend a little more and make it a gaming PC. Take that PS5 money, you don't need it anymore, and put it towards your PC build. Now you have a PC and a PlayStation and an Xbox all in one.