Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – January 6, 2021 – Technology
More than five weeks have passed since the new generation PlayStation 5 console arrived in the warehouses of numerous stores around the world. During this period, Sony managed to sell more than 4.2 million devices, which is more than twice the Xbox Series for the same period.
Well-known resource VGChartz reports that the brainchild of Microsoft, despite the fact that it came on the market exactly two days earlier than the PlayStation 5 , managed to diverge in circulation of two million devices. It is worth noting that the PlayStation 5 won the lead despite the fact that its sales began in two stages: the first console could be purchased by players from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, as well as Australia and New Zealand – they got the twelfth November, but the rest of the world, including European countries and Ukraine in particular, could spend their savings on the console from the nineteenth of November.
PlayStation 5 managed to bypass this indicator and a very popular portable console Nintendo Switch, which in its debut five weeks sold a circulation of 2.3 million units. By the way, Nintendo did not conquer such circulation even after fifteen weeks of initial sales.
The largest profit was collected in the United States, where during the above period, the PlayStation 5 was able to sell more than one and a half million devices. Two hundred thousand consoles were sold less in Europe, but in Japan, PS5 sales for the first five weeks failed to reach even 230 thousand, stopping at 226 thousand set-top boxes sold. It is noteworthy that the Nintendo Switch became the leader in the Japanese region (almost 565 thousand devices sold), and in Europe managed to bypass both versions of the Xbox Series and take second place, selling 600 thousand units. As for the Xbox Series, it managed to surpass the mark of one million devices sold only in the United States, while in Europe and Japan it sold 530 thousand and almost 32 thousand systems, respectively.
If we analyze the sales of all three main set-top boxes, then the PS5 is the undisputed first place with a share of 46.2%. The second position was taken by Nintendo Switch with a rate of 28.9%, and closed the top three Xbox Series X and S with a share of 24.9%.
Sony itself has not yet reported official sales statistics.
In Ukraine, as already mentioned, the start of sales of PlayStation 5 took place on November 19. The cost of the basic version of the console was 16,700 hryvnias, but the version without a disk drive – 13,500 hryvnias. It is worth noting that in Ukraine, by prior order, two batches of devices were sold, which were bought not only as a replacement for the PlayStation 4, but also as a New Year’s gift.
Also, just the other day, many players began to receive the first complaints about the branded DualSense gamepads. Users complain about adaptive chickens, which have been positioned as one of the key features of the new controllers. The problem is that when using the gamepad, the chickens begin to sway, so that the spring of the buttons does not perform its function to create the desired resistance.
Gamerant, which drew attention to the appearance of these complaints, has already received more than a thousand reviews. For example, one player reported that the button in his gamepad was so weak that it completely stopped responding to some clicks. One enthusiast, who disassembled the controller, expressed his opinion and found out that the problem is the chicken spring. There is a possibility that due to the existing shortage of the systems themselves and their components, the process of repairing the replacement of buttons may be delayed indefinitely. At the same time, Sony representatives have not yet commented on this situation.