PS5 Console Sales Surpass 80 Million Milestone, Closing in on PS3

Once GTA 6 comes out those sales will surge, I think 100 million is easily achievable over the next 18-24 months.

Like the article states when GTA 6 gets released I can easily see it passing 100 million units when the dust has settled,

"Sony may look to partner with Rockstar Games on a marketing deal" I was under the impression Sony already has the marketing rights for the game, don't have a source but I swear you guys did a article about this last year (?).

"Just 17% of the market went to physical copies, which is an increase from last year."

Interesting....

Something of note, the ¥148B Operating Income(profit) is, I believe, the largest of any quarter in the history of the division. This was a fairly random April-July quarter with nothing particularly of note occurring.

With lots of talk about big AAA games being too expensive and new revenue streams being required, it’s probably worth dwelling on this point a moment. The movement towards Digital and increasing revenues from Subscriptions and Add-on content is helping to facilitate record breaking profits.

So now we know why the PS3 store is currently down…

The PS3 was so shocked at PS5 sneaking up behind it that it fainted.

@Kienda
PS5 was like 😈
PS3 reacted like 😱

@Kienda what, it’s down!?! please tell me it’s temporary??? I still use it!

But but PlayStation isn’t going to exist

@sanderson72

@Oram77 Physical sales actually decreased from 20% to 17%

With Yotei, Wolverine, Marvel Tokon, Intergalactic, Saros, GTA 6, and a bunch of high profile 3rd party games, i think PS5 will hit 100 million units just like PS1, PS2, and PS4. The question is will PS5 reach or surpass PS4 117 million units before PS6 release?

@nomither6 US and Asia store are working fine but last time i heard EU store is under maintenance.

@sanderson72 There will always be a market for physical ethusiasts, just like there still is for 4k/ bluray. The CD drive will be an optional extra going forward.

@SeaDaVie The question is, how many releases were physical at all???

Now imagine how much they could be selling with a few first party single player games.

Does anyone know what the PS4 had sold at the same stage for comparison? PS5 sales seem to have largely mirrored its trajectory so far.

Crazy numbers considering the current market conditions

Even though it's only a 2 million difference;

It's actually 80 million consoles "SHIPPED" to retailers.

78 million are actually "SOLD" to players.

@SeaDaVie exactly. I've been saying it for a while. Sony can afford to release AAA games, even if they make a small profit, because they will lead to far more profit from third party games, subs and MTX.

@dodgykebaab shipped is the most accurate number to use. We don't exactly how many have been sold at any time.

Yeah ps5 is going to pass the ps3 we will see how it is with the ps4.word up son

@naruball I know, that's why I wrote the shipped number.

The headline says sold, but that's not correct.

It's 80 million SHIPPED, not 80 million SOLD, so the headline is incorrect.

@dodgykebaab well in reality they are sold , the stores buys them from sony , then sells them to the consumer , sony doesn't send the consoles to the stores for free.

Interesting that the PS5 is going to have to sell half as many AGAIN in order to get near the actual sales for the PS4.
And in that time-frame, the PS6 will loom ever-closer over the horizon.

@dodgykebaab actually Sony have sold that amount, they receive payment from the retailers upon delivery. It's technically the "sell-in" number. Sell-through is sold to customers.

PS3 will still be considered the better console.

That's a lot of units sold, which is impressive but makes it even more sad when games like Astrobot don't sell that much (comparatively).

@PuppetMaster thanks, i might buy a few games today just to be safe, lol. some gamers have a backlog to get through this gen - i have a shopping cart 😂

@Shad361 💯🤜🤛

@SeaDaVie No. It's shipped.

It's shipped to retailers. Sold is sold to customers.

Don't make a big deal over it though, it'll be 90 million by the end of the year.

And only 3 million of you bought FF7 Rebirth. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

@dodgykebaab shipped to retailer is when Sony is Paid, the money for all those units is already accounted for in these accounts.
Thats why they use this sold-in number, because it's the relevant accounting number. A machine being bought by a customer now was probably sold by Sony last quarter and would appear in those accounts.

@nomither6 Yeah you should buy some. Recently i bought some games from the store like Neo Contra, Sonic Wings, and House of the Dead 3. I've plan to buy more like Maximo: Army of Zin, House of the Dead 4, Rygar: The Legendary Adventure, Fatal Frame 1 & 3, Mega Man Legends 1 & 2, and Tron Bonne.

@sanderson72 @PuppetMaster "The question is will PS5 reach or surpass PS4 117 million units before PS6 release?"

I think the question isn't "before" PS6 releases, it's well after PS6 releases, you can probably almost say before PS7 releases. With PS5 costing what it does, $400 give or take, and the Pro costing $700, the PS6 won't be cheap. And looking at dual PS4-PS5 releases, I'm guessing most PS6 fames will also be on PS5. So if PS6 is +$500, and Sony drops PS5 to $300, they may still get a few million more PS5 sales after PS6 launches.

Unless $500 PS6 dual drops w/ $400 PS6 Portable and everyone buys that instead of a cheap PS5.

I still think 120 mil is doable. Price and the PS6 launch date will factor in.

I wonder if they have any SoP or something for fall. Saros supposed to show the gameplay this year, Wolverine still doesn't have a date, 2.5D GoW might be announced, Marathon said to get a date in fall in recent news etc. It could be a good SoP with all these.

But probably we will only get a remastered for HFW since it's been 3 years from the release.

Now watch Sony announce that they actually sold more PS3’s than they let on so the PS5 can’t surpass it.

@dodgykebaab @naruball "Shipped," in this context I'm pretty sure means sold to retailers, but not to end users. In Sony's mind, it's the same thing. They got paid either way.

PS5 has been doing well on the sales front. Considering the thing was so hard to get when it was released. That also set back the console sales out the gate.

@themightyant Tried to find the best I can PS4 sales after PS5 launched. Looks like PS4 had 113m in Nov 2020 and finished at 117 so you are correct, only about 4mil PS4 sold after PS5 launched.

I think w/ the price PS6 will be, and I think Sony will do a lot less creative marketing w/ PS6 like they did w/ OS5 when it looked like a lot of games would be PS5 exclusively before the PS4 versions were officially announced, I think another 5 mil could be doable. So we'll have to see where PS5 is when PS6 launches. Having just waited 8 years or Switch 2 who knows when that will be. Does look like an uphill climb w/o a big price cut though. Which isn't happening in current world economics

@Shad361 i love my ps3 i have my ps3 always plugged in and i still randomly play it time to time. but lets face it ps3 also almost killed the playstation , luckily the 2nd half of the ps3 era is what we remember the most , and the first party pretty much saved it, but 3rd party developers hated making games for it. even though we remember the games being fun to play but series like resistance , killzone all sold very poorly.

When do we actually think ps6 will come out? It feels like ps5 still has a lot offer and Sony knows this. 2028? I’m fine waiting.

@UltimateOtaku91 how much beyond that though? Given the slow adoption of a large chunk of us. Many still vangig away on the PS4.

This cross gen release plan is holding the numbers back. 2 even 3 years sure, let them come. But 5 or 6 years into the generation is just bad.

I guess I want to see PS5 beat the PS4 numbers. And I'm curious if this console will be able to or not. PS3 to PS4 wasn't as nearly cross gen as this one has been.

So yeah fingers crossed, GTA will help a ton, but beyond that? Idk.

@guacguacboo no lol , its just a bunch of people sitting around trying to guess when its coming out , but i don't see it coming out till 2028 , honestly im not really worried about it yet, i could even see it being held off till 2029.

@twitchtvpat I don't think they are though. Maybe sort of lol.

I think with most electronics, their supplied under a sort of consignment agreement.

W want $... For each one sold.

You can sell it for/discount it for any amount above such n such price.

That's how most electronics retailers work.

Best buy doesn't actually purchase say 10 $5k OLED TV's from LG for each store. Then another 10 or so, high end Bravias, or samsungs tvs.

They don't purchase all the expensive, MacBooks, and gaming rigs. Or washers and dryers.

retailers will do a consignment contract.

I ran small recording studio, and small small small record label in the earl 2000s, before online distribution existed. For the artist I helped, we'd open consignment accounts t local record shops and books store.

A company doesn't mind giving you shelf space, if it's at no cost to them. And every month or two, we'd call the store up, or visit. And get a check for any amount from any album sales.

So yeah, they're at the stores, pretty much a sure sale for Sony tbh.

But at any point, the company can send them back to Sony, like if the economy tanks, and no one has spending cash for example.

Sony needs them to actually sell to a customer.

For online direct through Sony owned websites, it's obvious instal money in the pocket type sale.

@11001100110zero i mean at this point i just see it like as pc , you'll see more cross gen stuff because both games are playable on either console , but clearly if you compare say the ps5 version of horizon running on the pro vs a base ps4 its going to be clear which is better. the new console will always look and play better then the older one. just like on pc older gpu's can run a lot of games , but you need the newest stuff to really make it run to its full potential.

@rjejr I suspect that the PS4 has probably cleared 120 million now but only Sony will know the total number or units manufactured (which is why some Nintendo Switch owners seem angry about the PS2 'moving goalposts' by clearing 160m according to ex-Jimbo).

During the early years of the PS5, didn't Sony order another 1 million PS4s to top up their console sales due to the PS5s being so restricted due to the supply of components post-Covid?

@11001100110zero I take it that it isn't good news that Sega have confirmed support (where the game allows) for the older consoles (Switch, PS4) for the next couple of years then?
Personally, I much preferred the PS4 era compared to the PS5 which only seems popular because it's standing on the PS4's shoulders and a game being on the PS4 as well doesn't mean it can't look good and be fun.

@sanderson72 PS2 will continue to sell as long as need be.😂

Don't know about the extra million PS4, but I do feel like Sony, "the company that knows generations", showed off PS5 w/ several games like GoW and HFW that sort of seemed like they were pushing next gen exclusivity, b/c they know generations, when they weren't. So, I'm guessing PS6 maybe off to a slow start while the cheaper PS5 keeps selling to play all the same games. Sony knows money, not generations.

PS6 is going to be the PS4 Pro Pro Pro Pro (I just need 1 PS4 game to release after it launches 🤣)

https://www.pushsquare.com/guides/new-ps4-games-release-dates-in-2025

I'm so happy that the ps5 despite having old tech (old when it first launched-positivley archaic now) according to the nay sayers is doing so well in its shipped/sold/whatever numbers. Considering that to so many it's one of the worst PlayStation generations so far its doing remarkably well.

I managed to get a PS5 on one of the many steep discounts (paid £330). I am curious if they will sell another 40 million units in 2-3 years. It's possible, but I think it will fall just a bit short of the PS4 gen. The software has not been as strong, and I am not seeing anything to push that needle apart from GTA 6 that will help sales for all consoles. I think ND's game is a PS6 game now.