“Demand is very weak.” PS5 and Xbox Series X|S sales do not satisfy even AMD in 2024, which predicts a significant drop by the end of the year – PlayStation 5
AMD says second half of 2024 will be worse than first
Almost 3 and a half years later, the Xbox Series X|S and PS5 arrive at a delicate time for gamers as the pandemic has caused a lot of damage around the world. But the very fact of being at home meant that the performance of both consoles was poor. good for your sales despite being out of stock. However, today we received statements from AMD confirming that Sales of both consoles are not going very well at all in 2024.
As you well know, AMD is the company that provides key components for the Xbox Series X|S and PS5, in particular its CPU and GPU thanks to APU based on Zen and RDNA architecture. However, the company today confirmed in a call regarding its financial results for the latest quarter that Demand for games has fallen “significantly” (via VentureBeat), and is expected to continue doing so with consoles in the second half of 2024, according to CFO Jean Hu.
AMD earned $5.5 billion in the last quarter. burdened with console sales. “If you look at the games, demand has been pretty weak. This is well known. There are also inventory issues. We calculated that drop of more than 30% in the first and second quarters, and the second semester will be lower than the first. “This is where we see the video game industry this year,” he says.
How many PS5 and Xbox Series X|S have been sold?
A few months ago, we published information on sales of the PS5 and Xbox Series this generation. Sony has already reported that the PlayStation 5 will have sold over 50 million units by the end of 2023, but now in 2024 it will achieve more. We’ll have to wait for the company’s next financial report to know for sure, but it’s possible it will be around the corner. 55 million PS5. As for Xbox, a few days ago Microsoft said that Series X|S sales continue to decline, in particular 31% in the last quarter.
It has been known for many months that Microsoft console exceeded 25 million units, it is possible that there are currently about 27-30 million. We’ll have to wait for Redmond to confirm this.
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