The end of the PlayStation and Xbox consoles was coming: they had their worst drop in sales since the 1980s.
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PlayStation and Xbox consoles are experiencing their worst commercial slump in the United States in over four decades, marking the worst sales decline since the 1980s. Data from the first eight months of 2026, confirmed by a Circana report, reveals a significant drop in hardware sales.
This downturn coincides with historically high prices, making the purchase of a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S in the United States more expensive now than it was at the beginning of the current generation.
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Infobae (Buenos Aires, Argentina) (AR): Comprar una PS5 o una Xbox en Estados Unidos nunca fue tan caro: las ventas de consolas se desplomanFocuses on record-high hardware prices and declining market conditions in the US.
Infobae (Buenos Aires, Argentina) (AR): Llegaría el fin de las consolas PlayStation y Xbox: tuvieron la peor caída en ventas desde los años 80Emphasizes the historic scale of the sales collapse, comparing it to the 1980s.
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