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Informations about the french hardware market are more difficult to get than for UK, Spain or Japan but recently have severall figures that leaked about the situation of Playstation and Xbox hardware.
This thread is an opportunity to clarify the overall market situation using what have been post across different places.
The main tracker for Hardware sales in France is GFK, when they give Hardware sales, data are split across differents categories like this:
We also have the RETRO catégorie that include SNES mini, Mega Drive mini, Atari Flashback,...
I think in 2014 and 2015 it was include as "Generation 7"
"Generation 9" is used to talk about Switch, PS5 and Xbox Series.
Nintendo Switch:
In recent years only Nintendo was the only manufacturer that give data to the press.
In General it happened on various interviews publish in January.
Interviews on Figaro:
www.lefigaro.fr
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www.lefigaro.fr
www.lefigaro.fr
Interview on Multimedialaune (these ones give slighty more information):
multimedialaune.com
multimedialaune.com
Then we can have fairly complete Switch sales data by year:
SWITCH [ALL MODEL] [GFK]
SWITCH OG [GFK]
SWITCH LITE [GFK]
SWITCH OLED [GFK]
Playstation 4 and Xbox one:
Nintendo France has often leaked figures to the press on sales of PS4 and Xbox one in France.
This what I have for 2015 and 2016:
2015 GENERATION 8 TV HARDWARE [GFK]
www.gameblog.fr
2016 GENERATION 8 TV HARDWARE [GFK]
Unfortunatly Nintendo stop leaking Playstation and Xbox figures after 2016
Ludostrie data:
Oscar has often leaked some French Hardware data using his webstite:
ludostrie.com
PLAYSTATION AND XBOX HARDWARE [LUDOSTRIE]
Ludostrie data are differents from GFK.
It come from own theirs own sources.
Nintendo anonced that PS4 final total is 6,0M at the end of 2022 using GFK.
Ludostrie give 6,1M for PS4 and 1,8M for Xbox one as of late 2021.
(So Ludostrie likely ovetrack PS4 by 0,1M compared to Nintendo/GFK data)
2022 Hardware:
For 2022 Ludostrie did not make an article leaking PS/XB data but using various data point we can deduced numbers:
These tables give few Hardware figures for last few years untill Aug 2022:
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So According to CNC Hardware was down by 24,4% in 2022 from 2,3M to 1,7M.
This total include 1,5M TV console and 190k handhelds.
Using that exact percentage and previous year exact numbers (2262k) we got exactly 1710k consoles sold in 2022.
Then we have this from Presse-Citron.
www.presse-citron.net
987k for Switch is the number shared by Nintendo but these market share data for PS/XB are new.
If we use them we got this:
Problem is that in that case sales of others hardware (Evercade and Meta Quest) are only 8k with seams unlikely to me.
Jan - aug 2022 GFK data showed this
GENERATION 9 (PS5/XBS/NSW) - 743K
OTHERS - 42K
This would mean PS4 sold somehow more than 30k in 2022 while Japan, UK and Spain all showed PS4 being bellow 10k.
CNC data give 190k handhelds and Nintendo 171k Switch lite both using GFK meaning ~19k others handheld were sold (basicly Game & Watch and evercade EXP), it did not match.
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UPDATE APRIL 2024:
REVISED HARDWARE FOR 2022
Thanks to an other source PS5 was ajusted up and XBS number is confirmed.
The source was wrong only because it combined XBS, PS4 and "others" in Xbox marketshare
(A) EVERCADE, META QUEST, AT GAMES RETRO HARDWARES...
(B) GAME & WATCH, EVERCADE EXP,...
2023 Hardware:
In October, an article published on Ludostrie stated that PS5:Xbox Series was close to 90:10 YTD at the end of September:
ludostrie.com
This was quickly follow by this leak of Hardware data.
2023 GENERATION 9 TV+HANDHELD HARDWARE [LEAK]
YTD Data as of September 2023
The source is not Ludostrie but numbers corroborate.
Then Julien chieze follow publishing a video saying the gap is even bigger:
He stated this:
That's all for France sales data.
This thread is an opportunity to clarify the overall market situation using what have been post across different places.
The main tracker for Hardware sales in France is GFK, when they give Hardware sales, data are split across differents categories like this:
We also have the RETRO catégorie that include SNES mini, Mega Drive mini, Atari Flashback,...
I think in 2014 and 2015 it was include as "Generation 7"
"Generation 9" is used to talk about Switch, PS5 and Xbox Series.
Nintendo Switch:
In recent years only Nintendo was the only manufacturer that give data to the press.
In General it happened on various interviews publish in January.
Interviews on Figaro:
Nintendo a vendu en France 2 millions de consoles Switch depuis son lancement
En deux ans, le groupe japonais a atteint son objectif de 2 millions de consoles. Sur la seule année 2018, il en a écoulé 1,1 million d'exemplaires, avec une très forte accélération des achats durant la période de Noël. Nintendo place cinq titres dans les dix jeux vidéo les plus vendus de...
www.lefigaro.fr
Nintendo a vendu 3,3 millions de consoles Switch en France
Sur la seule année 2019, 1,25 million de consoles ont été écoulées. Nintendo est aussi hégémonique sur les meilleures ventes de jeux.
www.lefigaro.fr
Animal Crossing New Horizons est le jeu vidéo le plus vendu en France en 2020
Le jeu de Nintendo est parvenu à surpasser la simulation de football Fifa. Philippe Lavoué, directeur de Nintendo France, fait le bilan de cette année particulière.
www.lefigaro.fr
En France, la console Nintendo Switch s'apprête à battre les records de vente de la Wii
La Switch vient de dépasser les 6 millions de ventes de la PlayStation 4 de Sony et s'apprête à faire mieux que la Wii, phénomène de société à la fin des années 2000.
www.lefigaro.fr
En France, la console Nintendo Switch surpasse les records de vente de la Wii
Nintendo a écoulé près d'un million de Switch en 2022, portant le total vendu depuis son lancement à 7 millions. Elle reste la console la plus populaire en France.
www.lefigaro.fr
Interview on Multimedialaune (these ones give slighty more information):
MM287 – FÉVRIER 2022 | Multimedia à la Une
multimedialaune.com
MM298 – FÉVRIER 2023 | Multimedia à la Une
multimedialaune.com
Then we can have fairly complete Switch sales data by year:
SWITCH [ALL MODEL] [GFK]
| YEAR | YTD | LTD |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0,911M | 0,911M |
| 2018 | 1,130M | 2,041M |
| 2019 | 1,250M | 3,291M |
| 2020 | 1,509M | 4,800M |
| 2021 | 1,303M | 6,103M |
| 2022 | 0,987M | 7,090M |
SWITCH OG [GFK]
| YEAR | YTD | LTD |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0,911M | 0,911M |
| 2018 | 1,130M | 2,041M |
| 2019 | ??? | ??? |
| 2020 | ??? | ??? |
| 2021 | ??? | 4,939M |
| 2022 | 0,469M | 5,408M |
SWITCH LITE [GFK]
| YEAR | YTD | LTD |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | ??? | ??? |
| 2020 | ??? | ??? |
| 2021 | ??? | 0,943M |
| 2022 | 0,171M | 1,114M |
SWITCH OLED [GFK]
| YEAR | YTD | LTD |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0,221M | 0,221M |
| 2022 | 0,347M | 0,568M |
Playstation 4 and Xbox one:
Nintendo France has often leaked figures to the press on sales of PS4 and Xbox one in France.
This what I have for 2015 and 2016:
2015 GENERATION 8 TV HARDWARE [GFK]
| CONSOLE | 2014 | 2015 | EVO | LTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLAYSTATION 4 | 0,860M | 1,051M | +22% | 2,155M |
| XBOX ONE | 0,284M | 0,298M | +5% | 0,715M |
| WII U | 0,237M | 0,228M | -4% | 0,742M |
| TOTAL | 1,381M | 1,577M | +14% | 3,612M |
PS4, Xbox One, Wii U, 3DS, PS Vita : voici tous les chiffres France
INFO GAMEBLOG. Au-delà des suppositions, parlons chiffres bruts. Nous avons pu nous procurer les volumes de ventes en France des différentes consoles. L'occasion de faire le point sur les volumes de chaque constructeur.
www.gameblog.fr
2016 GENERATION 8 TV HARDWARE [GFK]
| CONSOLE | 2015 | 2016 | EVO | LTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLAYSTATION 4 | 1,051M | 1,066M | +1% | 3,221M |
| XBOX ONE | 0,298M | 0,311M | +4% | 1,026M |
| WII U | 0,228M | 0,090M | -61% | 0,832M |
| TOTAL | 1,577M | 1,467M | -7% | 5,079M |
Unfortunatly Nintendo stop leaking Playstation and Xbox figures after 2016
Ludostrie data:
Oscar has often leaked some French Hardware data using his webstite:
Ventes de consoles en France en 2021 – Ludostrie
Les chiffres de ventes de consoles en France en 2021, année dominée par la Switch, alors que PlayStation et Xbox subissent la pénurie.
ludostrie.com
PLAYSTATION AND XBOX HARDWARE [LUDOSTRIE]
| CONSOLE | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWITCH | 0,911M | 1,130M | 1,250M | 1,445M | 1,231M |
| PLAYSTATION 4 | 1,008M | 0,940M | 0,550M | 0,294M | 0,090M |
| XBOX ONE | 0,278M | 0,232M | 0,180M | 0,078M | 0,005M |
| PLAYSTATION 5 | 0,165M | 0,600M | |||
| XBOX SERIES X|S | 0,086M | 0,214M |
Ludostrie data are differents from GFK.
It come from own theirs own sources.
Nintendo anonced that PS4 final total is 6,0M at the end of 2022 using GFK.
Ludostrie give 6,1M for PS4 and 1,8M for Xbox one as of late 2021.
(So Ludostrie likely ovetrack PS4 by 0,1M compared to Nintendo/GFK data)
2022 Hardware:
For 2022 Ludostrie did not make an article leaking PS/XB data but using various data point we can deduced numbers:
These tables give few Hardware figures for last few years untill Aug 2022:
Bilan 2022 du CNC
Le bilan 2022 du CNC donne une vision complète des secteurs aidés par le CNC : cinéma, audiovisuel, vidéo (physique et dématérialisée), jeu vidéo, industries techniques, exportation. Il analyse...
www.cnc.fr
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So According to CNC Hardware was down by 24,4% in 2022 from 2,3M to 1,7M.
This total include 1,5M TV console and 190k handhelds.
Using that exact percentage and previous year exact numbers (2262k) we got exactly 1710k consoles sold in 2022.
Then we have this from Presse-Citron.
PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo : qui vend le plus en France et en Europe ?
Après une année 2022 marquée par les pénuries, les ventes de PlayStation 5 explosent. Xbox et Nintendo marquent quant à eux le pas.
www.presse-citron.net
987k for Switch is the number shared by Nintendo but these market share data for PS/XB are new.
If we use them we got this:
| YTD | MS | |
|---|---|---|
| NINTENDO | 0,987M | 58% |
| PLAYSTATION | 0,443M | 26% |
| XBOX | 0,272M | 16% |
| TOTAL | 1,702M | 100% |
Problem is that in that case sales of others hardware (Evercade and Meta Quest) are only 8k with seams unlikely to me.
Jan - aug 2022 GFK data showed this
GENERATION 9 (PS5/XBS/NSW) - 743K
OTHERS - 42K
This would mean PS4 sold somehow more than 30k in 2022 while Japan, UK and Spain all showed PS4 being bellow 10k.
CNC data give 190k handhelds and Nintendo 171k Switch lite both using GFK meaning ~19k others handheld were sold (basicly Game & Watch and evercade EXP), it did not match.
___
UPDATE APRIL 2024:
REVISED HARDWARE FOR 2022
| SKU | YTD | Categorie | GEN |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWITCH | 0,469M | TV | 9 |
| PLAYSTATION 5 | 0,440M | TV | 9 |
| SWITCH OLED | 0,347M | TV | 9 |
| XBOX SERIES X|S | 0,230M | TV | 9 |
| SWITCH LITE | 0,171M | HANDHELD | 9 |
| OTHERS (A) | 0,034M | TV | - |
| OTHERS (B) | 0,019M | HANDHELD | - |
| PLAYSTATION 4 | 0,010M | TV | 8 |
| TOTAL | 1,710M |
Thanks to an other source PS5 was ajusted up and XBS number is confirmed.
The source was wrong only because it combined XBS, PS4 and "others" in Xbox marketshare
(A) EVERCADE, META QUEST, AT GAMES RETRO HARDWARES...
(B) GAME & WATCH, EVERCADE EXP,...
2023 Hardware:
In October, an article published on Ludostrie stated that PS5:Xbox Series was close to 90:10 YTD at the end of September:
Microsoft et la quête du leadership – Ludostrie
Après la bataille contre les régulateurs pour le rachat d'Activision Blizzard, où en est Microsoft dans sa quête pour dominer le jeu vidéo ?
ludostrie.com
This was quickly follow by this leak of Hardware data.
2023 GENERATION 9 TV+HANDHELD HARDWARE [LEAK]
| CONSOLE | YTD | MS |
|---|---|---|
| PLAYSTATION 5 | 0,75M | 56% |
| SWITCH [ALL] | 0,48M | 36% |
| XBOX SERIES X|S | 0,10M | 8% |
| TOTAL | 1,33M | 100% |
The source is not Ludostrie but numbers corroborate.
Then Julien chieze follow publishing a video saying the gap is even bigger:
He stated this:
- PS5 market share is now 93% VS only 7% for Xbox Series
- Playstation Portal outsold Xbox Series by a bigger margin than Spain.
That's all for France sales data.
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