UK Jan 2024: #1 PS5 (-17%) , #2 XBS (-7%), #3 NSW (-31%)

[enpleinjour]

EA Sports FC and The Last of Us Part 2 impress in tough January | UK Monthly Charts

2.47 million games were sold in January in the UK, a drop of 3% over the same period last year.This is based on GSD dat…

www.gamesindustry.biz

Software:

• 2.47M games sold, -3% YoY
• TLOU P2R 2 weeks = 2.5x TLOU Remake
• Tekken 8 = SF6 +33%

Jan 2022:

• PS5: 29K
• XBS : 32K
• NSW : 61K

Jan 2023 (125K total not upweighted):

• PS5: 58K
• XBS : 29K
• NSW : 38K

Jan 2024 (110K total, now upweighted?):

• PS5: 52K
• XBS : 29K
• NSW : 28K

UK GSD January 2024 Top 10 (Digital and Physical)​

Position	Title
1	EA Sports FC 24 (EA)
2	The Last of Us Part 2: Remastered (Sony)
3	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
4	Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)
5	Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
6	Grand Theft Auto Online (Rockstar)
7	Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco)
8	Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
9	Super Mario Bros Wonder (Nintendo)*
10	Spider-Man 2 (Sony)

 

[Hartmann]

So does a $10 upgrade for TLOU2 count as one sale? That would be a surprise.

 

[enpleinjour]

So does a $10 upgrade for TLOU2 count as one sale? That would be a surprise.

Looks like it:

TLOU P1 Remake = 25K (50% digital)
TLOU P2 Remastered = 62.5K (60% digital)

P2 has 25K physical which is not the upgrade offer iirc, so a fair amount is full price purchase.

 

[Tialo]

If PS5 is -17% YoY, then these data here can not match:

Jan 2023 (125K total not upweighted):

• PS5: 58K
• XBS : 29K
• NSW : 38K

Jan 2024 (110K total, now upweighted?):

• PS5: 52K
• XBS : 29K
• NSW : 28K

 

[Concurseiro do Futuro]

A price cut should make Xbox sells better this year than it did it in 2023.

 

[StrazakGoz]

A price cut should make Xbox sells better this year than it did it in 2023.

With all those rumors going around I don't they are willing to lose even more money on the hardware. I think saleswise Seires S/X will perform even worse than it did in 2023.

 

[kazuyamishima]

So does a $10 upgrade for TLOU2 count as one sale? That would be a surprise.

The article mentions it.

 

[Evilms]

Monthly estimates for 2023 (approximately)

+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
|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  |   192.000 |   138.000 |   156.000 |
+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| TOTAL | 1.110.000 |   580.000 |   610.000 |
+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+

 

[GamingCJ]

A price cut should make Xbox sells better this year than it did it in 2023.

The reason why Xbox is only down 7% is, because the massive Series X holiday discounts went until mid January. Starting February declines will be bigger.

 

[kazuyamishima]

It’s time for the PS5 to have a price cut. The thing is almost 500 quids.

 

[StrazakGoz]

It’s time for the PS5 to have a price cut. The thing is almost 500 quids.

Ridiculous after 3 years on the market…

 

[cw_sasuke]

It’s time for the PS5 to have a price cut. The thing is almost 500 quids.

They just introduced the Slim and MS seems to be kinda done Xbox wise in terms of applying pressure. So i dont expect them to change much before Fall when Switch 2 and the potential PS5 Pro Launch.

 

[kazuyamishima]

Ridiculous after 3 years on the market…

They just introduced the Slim and MS seems to be kinda done Xbox wise in terms of applying pressure. So i dont expect them to change much before Fall when Switch 2 and the potential PS5 Pro Launch.

I mean, there’s credit to be given to be the first console close to 500 quids and selling this much, but after almost 40 months after launch:

- Only 1 LE console has been released, interchangeable plates have been the bread and butter for this since Sony saw more income that way.

- There haven’t been any price cut but increases instead.

- Price increases in subscription services am games ( started early in the gen).

It’s very possible that the PS5 is generating Sony more profit than the PS4, but they were a bit more aggressive with the latter

I do think that the release of the Pro will offset all YoY decreases when it launches.

 

[Welfare]

Oh the numbers are using the new retailers that were added last year.

I think it was 9 retailers, and those added ~9K to the June 2023 total, so January being up ~12K compared to the original retailer panel makes sense.

The problem is not every console would've seen the same increase because of those retailers

 

[derby_440]

PS5 price cut and Pro release may help reduce decline vs 2023.

 

[salesguy]

PS5 finally hit to start seeing YoY declines it was inevitable. but bigger decline than xbs.

With all those rumors going around I don't they are willing to lose even more money on the hardware. I think saleswise Seires S/X will perform even worse than it did in 2023

they just had 349 fire sale in usa...though i dunno what goes on in uk.

going all digital and cheap xbs-x could start to gain ground this fall. it will just not show up in physical software sales. some of the latest ps5 pro rumors its even weaker than expected before (40 CU, yes it will be faster but xsx is 52 cu) so theres that too.

 

[Jin+Jang]

PS5 finally hit to start seeing YoY declines it was inevitable. but bigger decline than xbs.

Don't jump to early. Looks like you are so happy because PS5 is declining. Also, XS is declining on already huge declined number from last year.

Europe data! PS5 console sales were up across Europe in January (data does not include UK or Germany). But overall console sales are down, mostly due to a slowdown in Switch sales.

 

[unkindlynice]

I don’t think we actually look at why Xbox is declining enough. For me there are a couple of reasons.

First of all it’s true their first party has been lacklustre, PlayStation has Spider-Man and Microsoft’s answers all get day and date releases on PC. However the scale of the decline seems bigger than that alone - I personally am not seeing much advertising from Xbox at all - they’ve clearly tried to cut back in marketing here but PlayStation is constantly marketed.

I think Gamepass has become both a pro for Xbox but also a negative. If your not interested in a monthly subscription but instead enjoy F2P and maybe a handful of games a year (especially not at launch) then you don’t have enough reasons to jump on the Xbox train.

I don’t see how the finger isn’t squarely on Phil for the software development side in recent years. It’s been a complete mess since Series came to market. Can’t help but feel all these acquisitions have sucked up the corporate time and left studios in a limbo.

Series S probably should have been their major push - with a more expensive Series X with even better hardware than PS5 as their enthusiast machine to stand out in the market (similar how the original Xbox was positioned).

They are clearly not transforming PlayStation users into Xbox users whilst in all regions it looks like PlayStation is taking on Xbox users into their ecosystem.