PlayStation 4 Tops an Estimated 100 Million Units Sold to Consumers - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 October 2019 / 7,774 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment at the end of July 2019 announced it had shipped 100 million PlayStation 4 consoles in its lifetime as of June 30, 2019. Two and a half months later Sony's eighth generation home console, the PlayStation 4, has now sold over 100 million units to consumers, according to VGChartz estimates.
The PlayStation 4 reached the milestone for the week ending September 14, 2019. The console sold 221,443 units to bring its lifetime sales to 100,062,220 units.
Breaking down the sales by region the console has sold an estimated 40,932,584 units in Europe, 30,104,007 units in the US, and 8,381,826 units in Japan.
The PlayStation 4 launched in November 2013 in North America and Europe, and in February 2014 in Japan.
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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Death Stranding, MediEvil, Shenmue III, The Last of Us part II and Ghost of Tsushima will boost the sales to 120 million
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Ah sorry forgot about FF7. It will indeed boost sale figures of ps4
Nope. This late in a console life cycle we won't see a huge hardware boost because of new software launches. On the other hand new hardware like a PS4 super slim and a cheap price should push hardware sales with good legs.
@siebensus4 Try to keep in mind we're in uncharted territory as far as console generations are concerned:
- Mid-Gen refresh happened across two home consoles with a significant power boost.
- Nintendo had to mulligan their home console with...
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The introduction of a hybrid home/handheld console.
While I think about 20m is wishful thinking for the short term, it is certainly possible in the long term if Sony keeps their promise to continue supporting it.
The new games will definitely give a boost to ps4 sales. Also black Friday and Christmas holidays will increase the sales of PS4 quite significantly. The transition between ps4 and ps5 will take a lot longer than that between ps3 and ps4. Most likely the production of standard ps4 will stop and Sony will continue making and selling PS4pro as a cheaper alternative to ps5 which is expected to be very expensive. So reaching 120 million isn't impossible
Welcome to the 100M club, PS4. Now to surpass your great grandfather.
Congratulation! Now it's time to catch up and surpass the original PlayStation within the year.
3rd PlayStation system to do it and the 4th home console alongside the PS1, PS2, and Wii. Should easily pass the Wii very soon. I'll say before the end of October. Then, it should pass the PS1 some time during the holiday season. I'll say some time in December, just before Christmas. Then it'll have all of 2020 to reach the Game Boy, which I think it should do just in time before the PS5 launches.
Nice! I've always said it would do 130 million and I still stand by this prediction. I feel any more than that could be a tough call...
and don't forget Cyberpunk 2077 ;). I predict 132.47 Million overall global lifetime PS4 sales prediction XD. The Last big PS4 games for this gen- Death Stranding, Final Fantasy 7, Cyberpunk 2077, The Last of Us part 2, Ghost of Tsushima, MediEvil Remake, Shemune 3 ...and a possible cross-gen Resident Evil game (Resident Evil 8 or Resident Evil 3 Remake). Also, I keep getting the feeling that GTA 6 and (maybe Elder Scrolls 6 if they follow Rockstar's strategy) will be cross gen because Rockstar will have acknowledged the reason behind GTA 5's 100 Million sales and have had a whole generation to prepare. Also Bethesda's timing of the next Elder Scroll game makes sense and I'm sure Bethesda have also acknowledged the reason behind GTA 5's 100 million sales too. but it's just a prediction.
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Could've been a perfect 100 million without issues, but the folks in California decided to target a certain audience. Tainted 100 million.
The ps4 has a ZERO chance to come close to the ps2 and ds. The end of this generation will kill the ps4..... EXACTLY like the ps4 did to the ps3. Different times man. So you really think it will sell around 50 million more? Sure, the ps4 will hit 110-120, but mo way in hell it just blazes it's way to the top. There is literally zero chance.
@SwitchUP PS4 killed the PS3 because of many reasons. Chiefly would be lack of an official price cut which may not be the case with the PS4. The PS3's cheapest ever RRP was $299 with the launch of the Super Slim it never received an official pricecut after this. when the PS4 launched the RRP of the PS3 was $299 compared to the RRP of $399 of the PS4, ofc it would die. Even if the PS4 doesn't receive any more price cuts it'll likely be $299 for PS4 vs $499 for PS5, meaning a gap of $200 instead of $100. If the PS4 was cut to $249 or even $199 we could easily see it hitting 140m and beyond.
Basically it's future sales are entirely dependant on if sony lower the price, and by how much. Saying the PS4 will die with the release of the PS5 like the PS3 is premature.
Regardless 110m-120m is a completely unfeasible range if you actually meant them as min/max. It'll be at 107m sell-through by the end of the year and the forecast is 111.8m Shipped by March 31st 2020. 120m is worst case scenario.
