Switch 2 Leads April Console Sales With 877,493 Units as PS5 Drops 41.7%

3 articles · Updated · VGChartz · May 21

877,493 Switch 2 units were sold worldwide in April, putting Nintendo’s new console well ahead of PS5 at 435,713, Switch 1 at 199,420 and Xbox Series X|S at 98,377, according to VGChartz estimates.
That April total lifted Switch 2 lifetime sales to 19.61 million and year-to-date sales to 4.03 million, while its April performance ran about 242,000 units above what Switch 1 sold in April 2018.
PS5’s April sales fell 312,154 units from a year earlier, a 41.7% drop, and Xbox Series X|S fell 53.6%; versus predecessor-era Aprils, PS5 trailed PS4 by more than 360,000 units and Xbox trailed Xbox One by over 162,000.
Month on month, hardware demand also cooled sharply: Switch 2 was down by more than 799,000 units, PS5 by over 422,000, Xbox by over 42,000 and Switch 1 by nearly 39,000.
VGChartz said its figures are sell-through estimates based on retail sampling and country trends, typically within 10% of eventual totals and distinct from manufacturers’ shipment-based numbers.

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