PS5 Officially Outsells PS3, Now at 92.2 Million Units

What i think is that the market share has dramatically increased in size since 2006. I wonder what the per capita sales are?

In time it'll probably beat PS2 as well, since the PS6 won't be out till about 2037.

1. PS2 at 160 million
2. PS4 at 117 million
3. PS1 at 102 million
4. PS5 at 92 million
5. PS3 at 88 million
6. PSP at 82 million
7. Vita at 15 million

PS5 needs to sell 11 million more to pass PS1, which is possible with GTA 6 and Wolverine alone.

But congrats to Sony 🍻

A bit offtopic but it's always nice to give a little praise for the good old PS3: I bought a new Sony OLED due to some circumstances so I hooked up the PS3 just to see how it holds up. There was a Ridge Racer 7 disc inside which past me forgot to take out. After booting up the game I was blown away by the vivid colors, clean graphics, banging soundtrack and the classic addictive gameplay. Yes, half of this is due to Sony manufacturing great TVs, but still, that is one sick console packed with amazing games.

Coming from having owned all PlayStations, I must say that PS5 has been a great console, best to date in my opinion. Excellent value and superb user experience.

With Wolverine and GTA 6 and the usual good discounts around November and December they could pass the PS1.

"With the release of Ghost of Yotei helping the stats, 13,2 million first-party games were sold in the same quarter"

I think it's safe to say Yotei already pass 5-6 million copies. But i'm curious what's the rest. Death Stranding 2? GoW Ragnarok? TloU 2 remaster? GT 7? Spiderman 2? Astro Bot? Horizon? Ratchet? Demon's Souls? Returnal? Sony should show the numbers, at least for top 10.

But I was told the PS5 was bad....

@Oram77 Only bad when you go online. Normal people still find it the most comfortable and hassle free way to play games.

I feel a bit weird about the PS5. It's the best console they've made, load times are lightning fast, the console is silent, the design is great, the DualSense is better than any other controller in my opinion (except when it comes to battery life).

But at the same time, in my opinion there was no game that defined the generation. The most successful games weren't necessarily technical marvels and most of them were also sold on the PS4. I keep feeling like the PS5 didn't spread its wings because it was hampered by the PS4.

I still love it and it's my main console since I bought for Christmas in 2021.

It’ll never beat the PS2 but has a damn good chance of beating the PS4 now, what with how close its tracking and the probability that this generation will be extended.

They've done well to outlast a major rival, but in that context, these sales figures aren't amazing.

Xbox sales have been almost non-existent this generation but Sony haven't managed to expand their install base much beyond what it was when they were a competitor.

It will definitely be the 2nd best selling console, I don't think it can beat the PS2.

But if a PS6 is slated to come later like 2028-2029, it could be possible to get to near to 130-140.

@Czar_Khastik

People's favourite is usually PS2 but PS3 was my beloved. GoW3, Uncharted2&3, The Last of Us and inFamous1&2 were enough.

I really would like to see up to date sales numbers on first party stuff in these quarterly reports. I am curious about them. Nintendo does this and I think it is great to see them. I think it will surpass PS4&3 for sure with GTAVI.

@Shepherd_Tallon Absolutely, glad we're in the same Sony OLED club! I mean, I expected the games to look better as you said, but when I booted up Tony Hawk 3+4 and kickfliped around Canada, I was blown away with how good it looks and sounds.

The PS3 was a also pleasant surprise: I knew Sony has some great image processing chips in their TVs but this I did not expect. Ridge racer always looked good, but the color contrasts and the audio are sick on the Bravia 8 II.

@Scottyy PS2 for me is a landmark and can't be beaten (maybe by the PS1 due to nostalgia) but I had to unplug it since the new TV is a bit larger than my old one, so the new OLED and the old CRT Trinitron could not fit on the TV stand. I will think of something, but I must confess that I was playing only the PS5 recently due to it having a rest mode which really comes in handy when you're a dad having an hour for playing games before bedtime.

@cainhurst94 Oh I'm aware, just makes me laugh how delulu people on social media can be.

@Czar_Khastik I was just playing on PS3 yesterday and I am happy with it with the exception of creaking controller . This only shows how the technical evolution slows down, sometimes there is less difference between PS3 and PS5 than there was with PS2 and PS3.

@Shepherd_Tallon @Czar_Khastik OLED is a must for PS5. I like the most how strong in-game light literally flashes out of the screen into the room when playing in dark.

@themightyant

PS4 had more competition by Xbox than PS5 has. So I find the PS5 numbers kind of disappointing. But I also see what Trump‘s favourite word is doing here.

GTA6 will shift 10m PS5s extra.

@Stepan THE CREAKING CONTROLLER! For some time I thought I was the only one having that since it never happened with my PS4 and PS5 controllers. And also what's weird is that a friend of mine gave me an original sixaxis controller and that old thing doesn't creak, but my barely used dualshock 3 creaks.

The ps3 will forever be sonys best console AND era.🙏

@Cry_Zero I respect your choice, but for me it's either the PS2 or PS4 era.... gun to my head I would have to pick PS4

@themightyant Yeah it's very possible for PS5 to outsell PS1 either this year or early next year. And i agree it doesn't need to outsell PS4 although i think it's still possible.

@Pat_trick "But at the same time, in my opinion there was no game that defined the generation"

R&C Rift Apart? Spiderman 2? Death Stranding 2? Astro Bot? FF 16?

GTA 6 and Intergalactic also have potential as game of this generation.

@Max_the_German tbf a lot of Xbox one users probably had a PS4 as well so you wouldn't see much of a jump in the share of the market for Sony, plus id wager most of the players leaving Xbox are just going to PC as they can play their already bought games there.

@themightyant Trump says his favourite word is „tariff“.

@PuppetMaster Most of the games you cited are great, but not generation defining.

Also in my opinion Spider-Man 2 is a downgrade in most aspects except graphical fidelity.

I agree with GTA VI being a possibility, but as a reminder, that's six years into the console lifespan.

@UltimateOtaku91

Good points! Most Xbox gamers should also have a PlayStation (that wasn’t that clear to me, but is very reasonable). And with the end of Xbox exclusivity, there is just no need for getting an Xbox as a secondary console. That could also contribute to the very high sales on the PS Store, with game sales that are shifted from Xbox to PS5.

@EfYI If you paid attention to my comment, you would've noticed I start with "I feel". I'm clearly not coming for an argument of logic.

To me and a lot of people Bloodborne was generation defining, and it came out earlier in the console's lifespan than GTA VI will.

Also you come from a place of "logic", yet you state GTA VI will be generation defining. The game is not out, so there's absolutely no agreement that it has defined this generation. Ironic.