In recent years, the digital video game market has taken a lot of ground in the physical market, and the dynamism of Xbox in this regard is precisely one of the most important, with the share of digital software sales much higher than that of the physical, something that various board players have also benefited from, not just Microsoft. But in this new scenario where the availability of consoles becomes decisive for the coming months, we have seen that it has also benefited Xbox, achieving both in the United States and in Europe the leadership of consoles sold in the last month.
But more specifically, today we refer to the software sold, the percentage of the total video game market that is distributed among the different consoles. As can be read in Wccftech, the analyst firm DFC Intelligence has published an estimate of the evolution of the market in the coming years. Currently, Xbox market share of software sold is 20%, below Nintendo and Sony, the latter with a significant 43%. However, this “cake” seems to be distributed by 2024, with a loss of both in favor of Microsoft.
Xbox would manage to reach 27% of the software market share
It’s not for us to say if it’s a lot or a little, obviously it’s a huge share compared to other video game giants, but it seems that even if it is worth remembering that it is from an estimate of some analysts, it would be important to review the substantial changes in the way of distributing video games that seem to be coming in the coming years, where Xbox will benefit even more, due to its powerful online infrastructure .
But going back to this study, DFC assures that it is because they estimate that the new Nintendo console would arrive in 2024, a fact that would benefit Xbox, because The PlayStation 5, big loser in the analysis, would continue until at least March 2023 with a manufacturing problem due to the lack of chips. Without a doubt, with Microsoft having Xbox Series X | S, things seem to be changing a lot and very quickly compared to Xbox One.
