{"id":84999,"date":"2026-06-26T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84999"},"modified":"2026-06-26T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:37:25","slug":"ps5-and-xbox-series-x-both-didnt-sell-very-well-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84999","title":{"rendered":"PS5 And Xbox Series X Both Didn\u2019t Sell Very Well In May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S saw a significant drop in unit sales in May, according to new data from Circana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May&#8217;s US Video Game Market Notes from Circana Senior Director Mat Piscatella detailed this slump, even as the month otherwise saw a 38% year-over-year increase in hardware spending. Sony sold 58% fewer PS5 units last month than in May 2025, as spending on the console dropped 43% year-over-year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the fewest number of PlayStation consoles Sony has sold in May since May 2000, back when the original PlayStation was its only console on the market in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Xbox&#8217;s units sold fell by 12% between May 2025 and May 2026, making for the worst May performance since the Xbox debuted in November 2001. Oddly, Microsoft still saw hardware spending grow by 7% year-over-year despite the drop in units sold, likely due to the multiple price hikes Xbox consoles have received over the past year.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1300-3995502\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/original\/1601\/16018044\/3995502-ps5-xbox.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"3995502-ps5-xbox.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1595289\" \/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Generally, it seems the past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/microsoft-is-increasing-the-cost-of-xbox-consoles-again-starting-in-august\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/microsoft-is-increasing-the-cost-of-xbox-consoles-again-starting-in-august\/\">year of price hikes<\/a> is finally catching up to PlayStation and Xbox. Circana&#8217;s data points out that the average price of PlayStation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S saw a significant drop in unit sales in May, according to new data from Circana. May&#8217;s US Video Game Market Notes from Circana Senior Director Mat Piscatella detailed this slump, even as the month otherwise saw a 38% year-over-year increase in hardware spending. Sony sold 58% fewer PS5 units&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":85001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85002,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84999\/revisions\/85002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}