According to analyst Piers Harding-Rolls for the Ampère Analysis Institute, it is Nintendo that should win the votes of the wallet this year: according to him, the difficulties encountered by its two direct competitors in terms of machine production, will leave the field open to the Nintendo Switch OLED model, available for a few month. Will Pokémon Legends: Arceus manage to become a system seller with an aura as powerful as other Big N cult licenses? For the moment, apart from saying that the trailers do not sell the dream on the visual level, the title of Game Freaks still remains a bit mysterious … Verdict expected for January 28.
Still according to Harding-Rolls, Sony Playstation would continue to hold out on Microsoft, which can be explained quite easily: despite the excitement around the takeover of Activision-Blizzard, the “concrete” should only arrive in a few months, while the PS4 and PS5 consoles will host the Horizon Forbidden West exclusive in just under a month. God of War Ragnarok, also scheduled for 2022, should be another highlight of the Japanese calendar, even if the new game from Santa Monica Studios does not yet have a precise release date.
More generally, it’s a little more vague about the big cartridges of the year at Xbox apart from Starfield at the end of the year, but their platforms can still count on a game pass that continues to be filled with new features. interesting from week to week. Finally, the Xbox Series S seems to be less affected by the harmful effects of the semiconductor crisis, thanks to its “all-digital” bias. Anyway, it becomes very difficult to say how many people use the Xbox ecosystem, since as we said in a previous articlexCloud makes it possible to dispense with any dedicated physical medium.
total console sales in 2022 according to Ampere Analysis
- Nintendo Switch: 21 million
- PS5: 18 million
- Xbox: 9 million