In the US, PS5 Is Selling Much Faster Than PS4 At a Higher Price 1

There’s been much doom and gloom about the PS5’s performance, but in the US at least, it’s selling faster than the PS4 at a higher price. Even more pertinently, it increased its advantage on the last-gen console in 2024.

Circana analyst Mat Piscatella reports that, through December 2024, lifetime sales of the PS5 were 7% higher than the PS4 launch aligned. The difference was at 6% through December 2023, so the new-gen system actually increased its advantage over the past 12 months.

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It’s worth noting here that the PS5 costs significantly more than the PS4 did at this point in its lifecycle. Moreover, the new-gen console was massively supply constrained for years after its release.

For a comparison, through December 2024 in the US, the Xbox Series X|S trailed the Xbox One – itself considered a disappointment – by 18%. The difference was at 13% through December 2023, suggesting Microsoft’s new machine is quickly losing its lustre.

PS5 is generally keeping pace with the PS4 in Japan too, but it’s in the price sensitive Europe that it’s struggling to maintain pace. It’ll be interesting to see exactly how Sony intends to address this in 2025.

[source bsky.app]