PS5 beats Xbox: 2022 becomes a good year for Sony according to expert

In competition with Microsoft, Sony had to insert a painful defeat through the Activision Takeover. According to a market research company, however, the PS5 2022 will nevertheless be the nose in comparison with Xbox - and Nintendo is also among the winners of the year.

• PS5 Sell 2022 twice as many consoles like Xbox
• Next-Gen and Nintendo: Who wins the console year 2022?

The English market research institute Ampere Analysis has made a sales forecast for the PS5, Xbox Series X | S and Nintendo Switch for 2022. The company posted his analysis in a video on Twitter and looked a clear role distribution between Xbox and PlayStation - but the Nintendo Switch will grab the title of the best-selling console 2022 according to the Research Director Piers Harding Rolls.

PS5 Sell 2022 twice as many consoles like Xbox

Ampere Analysis has considered the console market in more detail and its prediction for sale of PS5, Xbox Series X | S and Nintendo Switch based on the figures from last year and the expected development of resource sadness. On the basis of this analysis, the market research institute concludes that the Xbox Series X | S 2022 will sell around 9 million console copies. The PS5, on the other hand, will settle twice as many consoles with 18 million , but Nintendo had to be beaten: the switch will sell many consoles with 21 million copies this year.

Next-Gen and Nintendo: Who wins the console year 2022?

The PlayStation 5 is currently more popular with regard to the sales figures, despite Microsoft's recent successes than the Xbox Series X | s. There are both Next-Gen consoles equally affected by the chip deficiency, it would not be surprising if Sony would settle more PlayStation consoles. Whether the Japanese company sells twice as many consoles after the Activision Takeover and the growth of the Xbox Game Pass, however, remains to be seen.

Also, the prediction of Nintendo's Triumph 2022 can not be completely from hand, after all, the Switch 2021 has already sold most consoles and is in contrast to the Xbox Series X | S and the PS5 clearly available in the market . According to Ampere Analysis, the OLED version of the switch will lead to the Nintendo victory this year. Whether the more subtle upgrade of the hybrid console will be sufficient to secure the console crown in 2022, may well be doubted due to the criticism of the model - you should not stop Nintendo in the race for the most popular console of the year but under no circumstances.

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An English market research institute has taken the console forecast for 2022: PlayStation will therefore sell twice as many consoles as Xbox, while Nintendo secures the crown with the new OLED switch. Could this prediction really happen?