PS5 Sales Top 670,000 Units in China, 6th Best-Selling Market for PS5 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 25 May 2022 / 5,140 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan in a slideshow focused on PlayStation has revealed the PlayStation 5 has sold 670,000 units in China 72 weeks after the global launch of the console. This would be in March 2022.
This compared to the PlayStation 4, which Sony says it sold 250,000 units in China 72 weeks after the global launch.
However, it should be noted the PS4 launched on March 20, 2015, which is 70 weeks after the global launch. The PS5 launched in China on May 15, 2021, which is 21 weeks after launch. This means the PS4 figure only includes the first few weeks, while for the PS5 it includes nearly a years worth of sales.
Sony does mention the PS4 was readily available, while the PS5 remains supply constrained.
China is the sixth best-selling market for the PS5, which compared to 11th for the PS4.
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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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anyone know Xbox series sales numbers here?
I wonder if China will ever become a bigger market for Sony than Japan. It seems to be heading in that direction.
Just a matter of time, imo.
Sad but probably true... :(
I would love to see China overtaking Japan and becoming the head of gaming maket in Asia not only on PC/mobile, but consoles as well
Why would you want to see that? I can't see how that could possibly be good for the gaming industry.
Because most of JP devs can no longer compete with western studios in big productions. This was true one generation ago and is even more true now. With Switch being the only relevant console in Japan, devs have very few reasons to upgrade their games further than how games used to look in PS3 days,this is a sorrow state for a gaming market imo
China in other hand is HUGE. A game that caters Chinese population can be very much profitable without losing any kind of asian flavor. Thinking of Genshin Impact, it's a huge and have a very clear and distinct "Asian style", looks more like a JP game than, let's say, Elden Ring.
What about censorship though? I'm more concerned about that than production values.
Considering the most prolific titles coming from Japan are the family friend ones from Nintendo like Animal Crossing, Mario and Pokemon it's not like we are losing anything more substantial with Chinese censorship
Well I will say that I'm personally looking forward to seeing how Black Myth: Wukong turns out. That's the only Chinese game I have any interest in though.
not this generation!!!
Yeah probably not until sometime next generation. Seems like it's only a matter of time though.
What's da point of selling consoles to the communist party they only allow u to play 2 hours tops and only on the weekends bullshit mderfcking rules haha
Too bad they can only play whenever the communist party allows them too.
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