Sony Reveals Hardware and Software Figures for PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, and PSP - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 July 2019 / 16,122 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment has released the lifetime hardware and software shipment figures for the PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, PSP, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4. Sony also announced there are 36.4 million PlayStation Plus subscribers as of March 31, 2019.
Here are the hardware shipment figures:
- PS1 - 102.4 million (As of March 31, 2012)
- PS2 - 155.0 million (As of March 31, 2012)
- PSP - 76.4 million (As of March 31, 2012)
- PS3 - 87.4 million (As of March 31, 2017)
- PS4 - 96.8 million (As of March 31, 2019)
Here are the software shipment figures:
- PS1 - 962.0 million (As of March 31, 2012)
- PS2 - 1537.0 million (As of March 31, 2012)
- PSP - 331.0 million (As of March 31, 2012)
- PS3 - 999.4 million (As of March 31, 2017)
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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I just realized they didn't give us Vita hardware or software. Even though they've stopped production and thus would know. Are they ashamed? Or did they just forget, like I did until now?
I'm sure they wouldn't use the word ashamed. But, they only want to release good numbers. And, Vita is clearly their biggest miss
It's their only miss, really.
Indeed. They have an amazing record with hardware. I was just joking about forgetting Vita, I do really wish we could get some complete data. I'm very curious what the official Vita numbers are. Miss or not.
We'll, if they ain't gonna give then with all thus, I doubt we'll see official numbers for Vita anytime soon.
Even Nintendo release Wii U Numbers.
What do you guys think the PS4 total sales will look like?
I also think 120 million is a given since Sony has forcasted another 16 million units for this year, which would put the PS4 at 112 million in one year from now, and that would be the year when the PS5 comes out so we can expect PS4 sales to decrease considerably, however even if sales fall off a cliff and we see a reduction of 50% in sales that would still be another 8 million units sold which would put the system at 120 million.
And there is also the fact that sony keeps their consoles in the market for a very long time (for over a decade), so the PS4 is still gonna be in the market selling some units 3 years from now, of courses sales would be very much down but every unit sold counts.
For the PSP the 76.4 million as March 31, 2012. But we know "82 million PSP's in the wild" by Shawn layden (ign interview 17/11/2014). Ending production as June 2014. It's weird that Sony didn't update the PSP numbers.
So the ps1, ps2 and psp are a little overtracked on here and the ps3 is bit undertracked.
Piracy really hut PSP's software numbers
Certainly, but generally speaking mobile consoles sell less software.
For the PSP the 76.4 million as March 31, 2012. But we know "82 million PSP's in the wild" by Shawn layden (ign interview 17/11/2014 https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/17/vita-sales-are-picking-up-thanks-to-ps4-remote-play ). Ending production as June 2014. It's weird that Sony didn't update the PSP numbers.
Yeah that's really weird. Why did Sony undersell themselves with old data? Production has long since ended, surely they know the exact numbers of PSPs ever sold to retailers by now, which is the effective number sold through. Why can't they just give us complete data?
Poor forgotten Vita.
It seems that the 3DS can still catch PSP...
Hmm... Nintendo's forecast for the 3DS in this fiscal year is 1m. And another 1m until it discontinues seems still possible for me.
Possible, maybe. Likely, definitely not.
When sony doesn't even acknowledge the Vita.....
Those PSP software sales really puts it into perspective. While the PSP sold respectably, the fact that Sony was banking on software sales while selling hardware at a loss must have really hurt them. The DS sold three times as much software, and that was to the purported casual market. Piracy really limited the PSP, which influenced Sony to create those expensive memory cards, which influenced the death of the Vita and so on.
Whoa...This actually puts the PS2 and DS painfully close...just 0.1 million from a tie.
Whoops, nevermind, was looking at the VGChartz platform totals. Nintendo's official numbers would have the DS a whole million behind. Still insanely close. Also this would give the 3DS a tantalizing, but tiny, shot at beating the PSP.
So Talon didn't retire LOL
