... Switch lead in both units and revenue, with this being the 30th consecutive month of Switch leading in units. Not even worth putting in the title at this point honestly.
NEW AND IMPROVED May 2021 US NPD THREAD - May 2021 consumer spending across video game hardware, content and accessories increased 3% when compared to a year ago, reaching $4.5 billion. Year-to-date consumer spending totaled $24.0 billion, a 17% increase compared to 2020 YTD. pic.twitter.com/c8oIiFBqsE
— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) June 14, 2021
US NPD HW - May video game hardware dollar sales increased 5% when compared to May 2020, to $244 million. Year-to-date hardware consumer spending totaled $1.9 billion, a 36% increase compared with a year ago.
— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) June 14, 2021
US NPD HW - Nintendo Switch was the best-selling hardware platform in both units and dollars during the month of May, as well as 2021 year-to-date.
— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) June 14, 2021
Looks like PS5's world domination is gonna have to hold off a bit longer still, if they can't even ship enough units to beat a $200 cheaper console in revenue. But there's still some hope!
This week, industry analyst provider NPD Group released a report examining games industry sales trends for the month of May, and the numbers show a 3% increase in spending when compared to a year ago; in total, spending reached $4.5 billion last month. Year-to-date consumer spending on video games totalled $24 billion, a 17% increase over the same period last year.
It was the hardware segment that did a lot of the heavy lifting, according to the data. Year-to-date hardware spending increased by an impressive 36% during the first five months of 2021, totalling $1.9 billion. This rise is largely attributed to November’s launch of new consoles from both Sony and Microsoft.
“Hardware spending at the moment is heavily influenced by the number of new PS5 and Xbox Series consoles that get released into the market,” Mat Piscatella, analyst at NPD, told GameDaily. “Switch has been pretty stable, but we can see some pretty big swings in the other platforms based on how many units find their way into distribution.”
One of the big rumors heading into this week’s E3 was the announcement of a “pro” model of the Nintendo Switch. No such console revision was announced, however, which was not surprising for Piscatella.
“I never had a Switch revision in my 2021 forecast,” he said. “I’m in the first half of 2022 camp, but we’ll see. Switch has been beating my own expectations for the year thus far, but we’ll have to see what happens when we get into holiday in what is certainly going to be a different market than what we experienced last year.”
With the Switch platform performing well beyond analyst expectations, Piscatella said that there isn’t really a need for a pro model at the moment. Still, Nintendo is known for its surprise announcements, so there’s no telling if or when we might see such a revision.
On the software side, spending on video game content reached $4 billion, a 3% increase over May 2020’s $3.9 billion. It was Resident Evil Village that topped NPD’s title charts, followed by Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, MLB: The Show 21, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, and New Pokémon Snap
https://gamedaily.biz/article/2074/report-games-industry-revenue-reached-45-billion-in-may-npd
Switch has to be selling close to twice as many units as PS5 to beat it in revenue. Is it actually possible that Sony is undershipping by such a massive degree in the US? Microsoft too for that matter.
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