[GIBiz] - Black Friday 2023 was the biggest one yet for UK video games retail outiside of PS4 and 5 launch. PS5 (+217%) XBS (flat) YOY

[Cool hand luke]

The poster I responded to was saying 2023 is supposed to be the peak year when the third full year is rarely a consoles peak year.

Like I said on Era, UK peak years for PS4 and Xbox One were 2014.

For UK and Europe, the only reason 2023 is so high for PS5 is because 2022 was abnormally low due to shortages. So low, they went down -33% from 2021.

Looking at last gen some more, France peak year for PS4/XB1 was 2014 as well. Germany was 2017 for both. Spain was 2015 for PS4, and XB1 sold the same between 2016 and 2018. Italy saw the same peak sales in both 2016 and 2018 for PS4, and XB1 peaked in 2019. Benelux and Northern Europe peaked in 2015. Combined Europe peak was 2015 for both PS4 and XB1.

Trying to claim 2023 is the "natural" peak or is what's supposed to be peak is a warped perspective of how sales were impacted over the past 3 years.

I don't think I said it matching last year was good.

Like if in the US also only "matches" what was sold last year this Black Friday/November that'd be disastrous lol.

Yeah man what even is natural right? Xbox makes its own lifecycles.

 

[JAHGamer]

Full UK sales for November is out, really bad that Xbox is up only 4% yoy

Call of Duty couldn't stop video game sales dipping in November | UK Monthly Charts

Over 4.55 million video games were sold during November in the UK, a drop of 3% over the same period in 2022. This is a…

www.gamesindustry.biz

 

[ethomaz]

Oh, this twat?

If that happened then Sony were shipping 0 in the quarters because the retail won’t buy more units.

People are dumb.

 

[ethomaz]

Full UK sales for November is out, really bad that Xbox is up only 4% yoy

Call of Duty couldn't stop video game sales dipping in November | UK Monthly Charts

Over 4.55 million video games were sold during November in the UK, a drop of 3% over the same period in 2022. This is a…

www.gamesindustry.biz

From what I read last year it had big first party titles than this year so the 3% drop in software sales.

The key ones were Ragnarok and Pokémon.

CoD contributed for that too… new one is 38% lower than last year… even if you count that last year launched in October and this year in November it is still a considerable drop.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

Does Xbox fandom knows what reality really means?

Reality is what you see in your mind, nothing else counts.

 

[GachaMadeMeBroke]

I always think back to that leaked email from Phil about how happy he was when the PS5 was unveiled because he thought they had the better console. “Today is a good day for Xbox”

4%

 

[Evilms]

Estimates for 2023

+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
|UK 2023|    PS5    |    X/S    |    NSW    |
+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
|  JAN  |    63.000 |    31.000 |    41.000 |
|  FEB  |    80.000 |    37.000 |    35.000 |
|  MAR  |    62.000 |    27.000 |    28.000 |
|  APR  |    51.000 |    23.000 |    44.000 |
|  MAY  |    39.000 |    21.000 |    42.000 |
|  JUN  |    45.000 |    21.000 |    27.000 |
|  JUL  |    56.000 |    24.000 |    29.000 |
|  AUG  |    82.000 |    26.000 |    27.000 |
|  SEP  |   102.000 |    61.000 |    32.000 |
|  OCT  |    98.000 |    41.000 |    37.000 |
|  NOV  |   240.000 |   130.000 |   112.000 |
|  DEC  |           |           |           |
+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| TOTAL |   918.000 |   442.000 |   454.000 |
+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+