PlayStation 4 Outsells the Xbox 360 - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 February 2019 / 14,065 Views

The PlayStation 4 has outsold the lifetime sales of the Xbox 360, according to our estimates.

The PlayStation 4 sold 533,999 units for the week ending November 17, 2018 to bring its lifetime sales to 86.15 million units. This compares to the Xbox 360 with sales of 85.80 million units.

Breaking down PlayStation 4 sales by region, it has sold 34.77 million units in Europe, 26.33 million units in the US and 7.21 million units in Japan. The Xbox 360 sold 45.14 million units in the US, 25.87 million units in Europe and 1.67 million units in Japan.

Breaking down sales in Europe even further, the PlayStation 4 has sold 5.60 million units in the UK, 6.01 million units in Germany and 4.77 million units in France. The Xbox 360 sold 9.14 million units in the UK, 2.67 million units in Germany and 3.58 million units in France.

The best-selling PlayStation 4 game is Grand Theft Auto V with 18.77 million units sold to date and climbing, while Kinect Adventures was the best-selling Xbox 360 game with 22.10 million units sold. However, the best-selling non-bundled Xbox 360 games is Grand Theft Auto V with 15.86 million units sold.

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is the best-selling first-party games on the PlayStation 4 with 10.16 million units sold.

Here is the list of the top 10 best-selling PlayStation 4 games as of October 27, 2018:

Pos	Game	Year	Genre	Publisher	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
1.	Grand Theft Auto V	2014	Action	Rockstar Games	5.84	9.41	0.60	2.92	18.77
2.	Call of Duty: Black Ops 3	2015	Shooter	Activision	6.14	6.05	0.41	2.43	15.03
3.	Call of Duty: WWII	2017	Shooter	Activision	4.60	6.11	0.40	2.09	13.20
4.	FIFA 18	2017	Sports	EA Sports	1.25	8.62	0.15	1.72	11.74
5.	FIFA 17	2016	Sports	Electronic Arts	1.25	7.95	0.12	1.61	10.94
6.	Uncharted (PS4)	2016	Action	Sony Interactive Entertainment	4.40	3.88	0.21	1.67	10.16
7.	Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare	2016	Shooter	Activision	3.05	3.82	0.19	1.35	8.41
8.	Fallout 4	2015	Role-Playing	Bethesda Softworks	2.84	3.94	0.27	1.32	8.37
9.	FIFA 16	2015	Sports	EA Sports	1.15	5.77	0.07	1.23	8.22
10.	Star Wars Battlefront (2015)	2015	Shooter	Electronic Arts	3.30	3.19	0.23	1.30	8.02

Here is the list of the top 10 best-selling Xbox 360 games:

Pos	Game	Year	Genre	Publisher	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
1.	Kinect Adventures	2010	Party	Microsoft Game Studios	15.09	4.97	0.24	1.81	22.10
2.	Grand Theft Auto V	2013	Action	Rockstar Games	9.06	5.33	0.06	1.41	15.86
3.	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3	2011	Shooter	Activision	9.07	4.29	0.13	1.33	14.82
4.	Call of Duty: Black Ops	2010	Shooter	Activision	9.76	3.73	0.11	1.14	14.74
5.	Call of Duty: Black Ops II	2012	Shooter	Activision	8.27	4.32	0.07	1.20	13.86
6.	Call of Duty 6	2009	Shooter	Activision	8.53	3.63	0.08	1.28	13.53
7.	Halo 3	2007	Shooter	Microsoft Game Studios	7.97	2.81	0.13	1.21	12.13
8.	Grand Theft Auto IV	2008	Action	Rockstar Games	6.80	3.11	0.14	1.04	11.09
9.	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (Working Title)	2013	Shooter	Activision	6.76	2.64	0.04	0.98	10.41
10.	Halo Reach	2010	Shooter	Microsoft Game Studios	7.08	2.01	0.08	0.80	9.97

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.

12 Comments

PAOerfulone (on 08 December 2018)

In the words of the late, great, Freddie Mercury:
"Another One Bites the Dust."

waltz (on 09 December 2018)

Confident it'll pass both Wii and PS1

StreaK (on 13 January 2019)

This just shows how BORING games and gamers in general have become over the years lol. Ahhh the golden, good ol days are simply gone now. I remember on PS1 (pretty much the final "classic" era as far as I'm concerned) the top 10 consisted of Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy VII, Tekken 3 and Crash Bandicoot...Resident Evil 2 and Tomb Raider weren't far behind.

Now, we got FIFA and Call of Duty taking over the entire list....and a GTA game always sitting far at the top.
Still, cool to see an Uncharted game on the list almost cracking the top 5.

Mystro-Sama (on 10 December 2018)

Well deserved. The PS4 is legendary.

Darwinianevolution (on 09 December 2018)

Congratulations. Now to reach the PS1/Wii, it will probably do in a year or two if there's no surprise announcement. The real question is whether is going to be surpassing the Game Boy before the PS5 comes out or not.

bamf (on 09 December 2018)

Ps3 definitely before the year ends. Then wii in 2019. Could it do ps1 on 2020? Ps4 hasn't needed price cuts but if ps4 mini came out with a price cut that will easily sell tens of millions even with ps5 launching. Surpassing ps2 I'm not sure? I think everyone on the planet now owns gta v 😂 hate when games that are bundled with consoles get accounted as sale figures as they aren't independently bought. Did this with wii sports