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State of the market
Consumer spending on video game content, hardware and accessories reached $4.1 billion, a 5% drop when compared to a year ago. A 6% decline in April spending on video game content offset 7% growth in hardware.

Year-to-date consumer spending on video game content, hardware and accessories fell 2% when compared to the same period in 2022, to $17.7 billion.

Hardware
Video game hardware spending grew 7% when compared to YA, to $367M. This is the highest video game hardware spend for an April month since the $420M reached in April 2020. Double-digit percentage growth in both PS5 and Switch dollar sales offset declines on other platforms.

PlayStation 5 was the best-selling hardware platform in dollar sales during April, while Switch led the market in units sold. PlayStation 5 leads the 2023 hardware market year-to-date across both units and dollars.

Software
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Mobile
Sensor Tower reports the top 10 games by U.S. consumer spending in April as: Candy Crush Saga, Roblox, Royal Match, Coin Master, Gardenscapes, Evony, Township, Jackpot Party, Homescapes, and Bingo Blitz.

“Pokémon Go fell out of the top ten for the first time since April of last year,” said Dennis Yeh of Sensor Tower. “Spend trends were relatively stable in April with no major shifts in subgenre spend from March.”

Accessories
Accessories spending during April was flat when compared to a year ago, at $158 million. The PlayStation 5 Dual Sense Edge Wireless Controller Black was the best-selling accessory in dollar sales for both April and 2023 year-to-date.

Software charts

Year To Date

Nintendo / PlayStation / Xbox charts are no longer being reported.

Rankings
Units: NSW > PS5 > XBS
Revenue: PS5 > NSW > XBS

YTD Units: PS5 > NSW > XBS
YTD Revenue: PS5 > NSW > XBS

Thanks Mat Piscatella!

 

[reksveks]

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Summary (will be updated):
- PS5 and Switch up double digits
- YTD revenue for HW up 18%, for total down 2%
- Accessories flat YOY% for the month
- SW down 6% YOY for the month, down 4% for YTD
- SW: Survivor #1, Dead Island #2, PGA #7, Mega Man BNLC #8, Minecraft #11
- Dual Sense Edge #1 accessory in terms of revenue
- Mario Bros and 3D World going up into the top 20 whilst excluding digital sales.

 

[Diseased Yak]

"- Dual Sense Edge #1 accessory in terms of revenue"

Probably sold about 7 of them and achieved that.

 

[SlimySnake]

Odd that Switch beat out Playstation just a month after it posted a record 700k or so in sales.

Did the PS5 sales come back down to earth or did the switch post a record month too?

 

[a multicultural team of v]

"Double-digit percentage growth in both PS5 and Switch dollar sales offset declines on other platforms."


C'mon Ouya and ColecoVision you gotta pump those numbers up, you're holding everyone else back

 

[GigaBowser]

Holy crud Switch is like a gazillion years old and TOTK came out in May

Pre Zelda hypes?

 

[feynoob]

Switch is something else. We are witnessing a history about this console.
If it reaches 150+m, that would be the most epic flex move ever.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Odd that Switch beat out Playstation just a month after it posted a record 700k or so in sales.

Did the PS5 sales come back down to earth or did the switch post a record month too?

software sells hardware.

 

[Woopah]

Happy to see the retro content doing well this month (MegaMan, FF and Advance Wars).

Odd that Switch beat out Playstation just a month after it posted a record 700k or so in sales.

Did the PS5 sales come back down to earth or did the switch post a record month too?

Holy crud Switch is like a gazillion years old and TOTK came out in May

Pre Zelda hypes?

PS5 came back to Earth and Switch got a boost from the Mario movie and Zelda OLED.

 

[lh032]

Odd that Switch beat out Playstation just a month after it posted a record 700k or so in sales.

Did the PS5 sales come back down to earth or did the switch post a record month too?

probably the zelda game and mario movie : S?

 

[Crispy Gamer]

Zelda switch oled was sold out every where I couldn't find one it launched late April I'm sure that was a huge boost

 

[Saber]

Oh cool, 3D World back to the listing. Movie doing a great work for their games.

 

[Elios83]

Great month for Switch (pushed by Zelda OLED model, Mario movie hype) and PS5, double digit growth for both.
Xbox continues to have disappointing results.

It also seems Dual Sense Edge is a success for Sony:

The PlayStation 5 Dual Sense Edge Wireless Controller Black was the best-selling accessory in dollar sales for both April and 2023 year-to-date.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Switch so swole

 

[Kilau]

TOTK CE Switch did work.

 

[Kacho]

Switch is surging due to Zelda and Mario movie hype. Xbox continues to be irrelevant. Starfield can't come soon enough...


ctrl +f PSVR2 0/0

Have we heard anything about how the thing is performing in the US?

 

[jm89]

"offset declines on other platforms"

 

[Deerock71]

Tears of the Kingdom might have been shade thrown in Sony's direction in hindsight.

 

[Thirty7ven]

PS5 momentum is ovah

Pack your bags

 

[Flutta]

Switch is something else. We are witnessing a history about this console.
If it reaches 150+m, that would be the most epic flex move ever.

It’s not a console, rather a handheld that has a dock station.

 

[Tsaki]

Dead Island at #2? Good for them

 

[DrFigs]

PS5 is dead

 

[Thirty7ven]

"offset declines on other platforms"

"offset declines on PS4, Xbox One and others"

 

[Mr Moose]

Odd that Switch beat out Playstation just a month after it posted a record 700k or so in sales.

Did the PS5 sales come back down to earth or did the switch post a record month too?

1 day of the Zelda Switch sales.

 

[Thirty7ven]

1 day of the Zelda Switch sales.

Think it had two days of Zelda Switch OLED

 

[Alan Wake]

Sonic Frontiers still top 20. Great work, Sega!

 

[Alan Wake]

Xbox: The sound of silence.

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

Xbox: The sound of silence.

Meh... shortages and Starfield is coming.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

software sells hardware.

A lesson one of the platform holders has yet to learn.

 

[Iced Arcade]

Switch #1 after month of endless threads of how Nintendo is long in the tooth and needs a new console. Lol

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Odd that Switch beat out Playstation just a month after it posted a record 700k or so in sales.

Did the PS5 sales come back down to earth or did the switch post a record month too?

It's Zelda month; I imagine the game gave Switch hardware sales a big boost.

Next month PS5 will be #1 in hardware units unless there are supply constraints. Lots of big games for it in June including FF XVI as an exclusive.

Meh... shortages and Starfield is coming.

Series X is not as supply-constrained as people make it out to be in America, and Series S is always readily available.

Starfield will give Series a nice boost in units but considering Spiderman 2 comes out the same month, the best MS can hope for is 2nd in units and revenue.

 

[SlimySnake]

It's Zelda month; I imagine the game gave Switch hardware sales a big boost.

Next month PS5 will be #1 in hardware units unless there are supply constraints. Lots of big games for it in June including FF XVI as an exclusive.

Zelda came out in May. This is the April thread.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Zelda came out in May. This is the April thread.

People knowing a new Zelda comes out in May might've convinced a lot to pick up a system the month ahead of time.

Also don't forget the sales promo Nintendo's been doing with some of the Mario games, and the boost the Super Mario movie gave both the games and (apparently) system due to its success.

EDIT: Also like several posters are saying, Zelda Switch OLED model released in April. I forgot all about that but yeah, that would obviously be a big seller in itself.

 

[Horseganador]

Double-digit percentage growth in both PS5 and Switch dollar sales offset declines on Xbo...."""other platforms""" xDD

Harsh statements.

 

[onQ123]

Tears of the Kingdom might have been shade thrown in Sony's direction in hindsight.

Sunshine in the storm

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/ps5-...-the-last-of-us-show-hogwarts-legacy.1653005/

 

[Heisenberg007]

R reksveks Matt didn't share Xbox HW data? Or did I miss it?

 

[digoutyoursoul]

How the hell do you constantly get pissed on in your own territory? Either ineptness or a lack of care. Probably a mixture of both.

And I don’t want to hear the “yeah but Starfield” shite either.

 

[Labadal]

Octopath Traveler II still hanging in there!!

 

[reksveks]

TOTK CE Switch did work.

Matt said that in another tweet but not sure if anyone has post

R reksveks Matt didn't share Xbox HW data? Or did I miss it?

Just declined but nothing more re the percentage range.

 

[SlimySnake]

How the hell do you constantly get pissed on in your own territory? Either ineptness or a lack of care. Probably a mixture of both.

And I don’t want to hear the “yeah but Starfield” shite either.

10 years of inept leadership, poor releases, lack of any meaningful GOTY caliber games.

He's seen the numbers. He probably did some polls and surveys and knows starfield isnt going to turn anything around. Hence the comments. That ship has sailed. It will take MS 2-3 Starfield quality games a year for the next 5 years to get the trust of the people back and that might be enough to turn the tide come next gen. He knows this gen is lost.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

10 years of inept leadership, poor releases, lack of any meaningful GOTY caliber games.

He's seen the numbers. He probably did some polls and surveys and knows starfield isnt going to turn anything around. Hence the comments. That ship has sailed. It will take MS 2-3 Starfield quality games a year for the next 5 years to get the trust of the people back and that might be enough to turn the tide come next gen. He knows this gen is lost.

Why does he get plaudits then? Why is there a sort of clique/hive mind strategy with protecting the man.

It’s not making Xbox a better product. It irks me sometimes , I don’t get it.

 

[Luigi Mario]

"Double-digit percentage growth in both PS5 and Switch dollar sales offset declines on other platforms."

For those still wondering why we won’t be getting platform-specific charts anymore.

 

[SlimySnake]

Why does he get plaudits then? Why is there a sort of clique/hive mind strategy with protecting the man.

It’s not making Xbox a better product. It irks me sometimes , I don’t get it.

He wont be getting them anymore. Everyone including the astroturfers on his payroll is done with him.

Watch the latest Ryan McCaffrey IGN podcast. They are done with Phil.

 

[onQ123]

It's Zelda month; I imagine the game gave Switch hardware sales a big boost.

Next month PS5 will be #1 in hardware units unless there are supply constraints. Lots of big games for it in June including FF XVI as an exclusive.



Series X is not as supply-constrained as people make it out to be in America, and Series S is always readily available.

Starfield will give Series a nice boost in units but considering Spiderman 2 comes out the same month, the best MS can hope for is 2nd in units and revenue.

May will be Switch both in units & revenue

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Nice to hear that I wasn't that ONE GUY who bought the Dualsense Edge in the USA (and I love it very much despite some shipping adventures). It is indeed a worth accessory but I'm amazed how many people thought that this will be a nice investment too.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Meh... shortages and Starfield is coming.

shortages? Come on I thought we've been through this.

 

[Daneel Elijah]

Watch the latest Ryan McCaffrey IGN podcast. They are done with Phil.

The Xbox showcase will really show if this is true or not. And they will need another one to take his place so he still have a chance before that happen.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

He wont be getting them anymore. Everyone including the astroturfers on his payroll is done with him.

Watch the latest Ryan McCaffrey IGN podcast. They are done with Phil.

No I’m not watching him after the whole “he’s a hardcore gamer and the two leaders at PlayStation and Nintendo are not” plea the past few weeks

It was fucking embarassing and drove home the cult/hivemind shit I was talking about earlier.

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

Series X is not as supply-constrained as people make it out to be in America, and Series S is always readily available.

Starfield will give Series a nice boost in units but considering Spiderman 2 comes out the same month, the best MS can hope for is 2nd in units and revenue.

Did you guys really think I was serious?

 

[Woopah]

It's Zelda month; I imagine the game gave Switch hardware sales a big boost.

Next month PS5 will be #1 in hardware units unless there are supply constraints. Lots of big games for it in June including FF XVI as an exclusive.

This chart is for April, next month is the one where Zelda actually comes out.

PS5 should win June though yes.