With PS5 and Xbox Series X|S getting into the center age of their {hardware} lifecycle, Circana (previously often known as NPD) has offered comparability numbers for a way they’re doing in opposition to their predecessors. Lengthy story brief: PS5 is outperforming the PS4, whereas Xbox Series X|S is falling behind the Xbox One within the US.
Circana revealed that PS5 {hardware} gross sales are 8% forward of PS4 after 43 months of availability. In the meantime, Xbox Series X|S “trails Xbox One by 13% and stay[s] barely behind Xbox 360.”
This most likely would not come as a giant shock, since earlier studies pointed to PS5 outselling Xbox Series X|S handily. In addition, Xbox {hardware} had its worst gross sales dropoff in years based on a current earnings report.
Microsoft has pushed publicly that {hardware} gross sales aren’t the tip all, be all for its enterprise. For one, Xbox first-party video games additionally arrive on PC, and now some are displaying up on PS5 and Nintendo Swap. On prime of that, there are methods to play Xbox Sport Move titles with no console, together with the current addition of Amazon Hearth TV gadgets.
The {hardware} comparisons weren’t the one updates from Circana. The group additionally introduced the highest 20 best-selling video games in Might for the US, with Ghost of Tsushima topping the record after arriving on Steam. As for 2024’s best-selling video games so far, Helldivers II stays at No. 1.