Weekly Viz 2022-07-04
Global Game Console Sales 2004-2021
There are many great news announced in last week’s Nintendo Direct. I am really looking forward to the upcoming games that are going to be released on NS in the rest of the year, including Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Persona 5 Royal, NieR:Automata, Pokemon scarlet and Violet, etc. So this week, I am going to make a game theme visualization, looking at the game console sales units on the three main platforms (nintendo, playstation, and xbox) over time.
My Visualization
This visualization puts each platform on its separate row with annual stacked sales units by all their consoles.
Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.
Insights
- Nintendo was the king between 2007 to 2009, with ~50M annual sales units globally every year from Wii and DS;
- But PlayStation quickly catched up and surpassed Nintendo in 2014 with the launch of PS4;
- Nowaways with Nintendo Switch being a hit acorss the world, Nintendo once again regains the winner place;
- Xbox, however, has always been the 3rd place with no more than 15M annual sales units.
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