Coronavirus pandemic halts demand drop Playstation 4 and Xbox one in USA. This is reported by an American company. NPDengaged in tracking the gaming market.
In April 2023, American gamers spent $ 420 million on the Big Three consoles – 163% morethan for the same period a year earlier.
- Last month was the best April in the United States since 2008, when iron sales generated $ 427 million. At the same time, there were much more active consoles on the market twelve years ago – Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP and Nintendo DS.
- The leader again became the Nintendo Switch, demonstrated the largest April sales in the current generation.. Moreover, in terms of revenue from sales for the first four months of the calendar year, it set an absolute market record, breaking the 2009 Wii.
- In total, in the first four months of 2023, sales of all cantilever iron brought $ 1.2 billion in revenue – 30% more than in 2019.
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NPD does not indicate specific sales figures in its reports, but sends them to industry representatives. Thanks to analyst note Michael Pakterdirected to investors, the April results hit the press. They more than doubled the expectations of a specialist.
- Nintendo Switch – 808,000 (the previous April record was for Wii – 714 thousand consoles were sold in April 2008)
- PlayStation 4 – 411,000
- Xbox One – 329,000
As of today, the demand for Nintendo Switch continues to exceed supply – consoles are everywhere sold out. At the same time, Western users, as experts point out, more often than Japanese decide to buy a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One when they come to the store for Switch and find out that it is not available. Now Nintendo is trying to establish production affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier it became known about the best-selling games in April in the United States.
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