Circana’s Mat Piscatella has revealed that the PS5 was January 2025’s best-selling hardware platform in the US in terms of units and dollar, with Xbox Series X/S following in second place for hardware spending. However, Nintendo Switch managed second place to PS5 based on units sold.
January consumer spending on Accessories fell 28% vs YA, to $194M, and finished slightly ahead of January 2023’s $192M. PlayStation Portal was again the month’s best-selling accessory in consumer spending, while the Dual Sense Wireless Controller Midnight Black led in units sold.
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Earlier this month Sony announced that the PS5 had shipped 75 million units worldwide, with the format holder shifting 9.5 million units during the three-month period ended December 31, 2024, giving the console its best quarter since its launch in November 2020.
Sony released the PS5 during the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, during a time where many regions were observing lockdown to curb the spread of the virus. While stock sold out quickly, resupplies were few and far between due to a shortage of manufacturing components, and the situation wasn’t helped by scalpers taking advantage of low stock supplies by reselling PS5s at exorbitant prices.
[Source – Mat Piscatella on BlueSky]
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