Sony: PS5 Sales Top 20 Million Units - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 June 2022 / 10,956 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment has told GamesIndustry the PlayStation has sold over 20 million units worldwide.
"We are thrilled to share that Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has sold more than 20 million PlayStation 5 consoles globally," said the SVP Head of Global Sales and Business Operations at Sony Interactive Entertainment Veronica Rogers.
"Since PS5's launch, our teams have worked tirelessly to deliver a truly next-gen gaming console that has won the world over and the we want to take this time to thank the fans for their support. Your passion for the PlayStation brand is what drives us and what inspires us to innovate new technology, engineer the future of gaming, and continue creating the best place to play.
"To those fans who have yet to get their hands on a console, please know that we are planning on a significant ramp-up in PS5 production this year and we are working endlessly to make sure that PlayStation 5 is available for everyone who wants one."
Sony had previously announced it had shipped 19.3 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of March 31, 2022.
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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Pretty impressive given that it’s still hard to find these in store shelves. I have never seen a PS5 console in the wild. Hopefully they’ll have them in steady supply once FF16 drops.
they have passed 20million sales because thats how many have hit the shelves! if 25+ million hit the shelves their numbers would have passed 25 million!
Hard to find? I would say impossible, I have never seen one for sale not even online. With that said I'm happy with mine, paid around 100 dollars extra for it, scalpers, but it was worth it, this is a 600 dollar machine to be honest, 500 dollars was a steal for such specs.
I myself got one off walmart using their premium member sub for 20 bucks. Got to the front of the line and was able to secure two first try. I know a few other people that got theirs at retail price too within the past 6 months.
Impossible is an extreme exaggeration, you just need to know where to go. It is only hard if you expect to just walk into the store or snag one online without any extra effort.
My point is, its impossible to go right now and get one right now, you either have to pay extra like you did, or wait at least a few days or weeks. Hence Impossible.
Either paying an extra 20 dollars (still not supporting scalping) or waiting days to weeks is not the definition of impossible...hence the correction.
I doubt you can pay 20 extra and get one right now today. You must be dreaming.
Worked a month ago for my buddy, got it first try. I guess in this case, dreams become reality.
So you just walked in to a store and came out with a ps5 in your hand?
Ah if you are talking about on store shelves ALONE, than I agree. Both the Series X and PS5 are 99% impossible to find. Only the Series S and Switch are stocked up enough to find on store shelves these days.
I was talking about buying digital, and that 20 bucks gets you in the front of the line. Not super hard to get one that way, I actually had two reserved for myself, and canceled the second once I confirmed payment on the first. A bunch of my friends got one easy on their first try on Walmart as well. I was more saying getting one at retail price is not near impossible, not the notion of walking in to a store and seeing it on the shelf. I saw a few PS5s at gamestop once or twice, but that was months ago after I had already gotten mine.
Given the fact that VGChartz estimates are at 19.83M as of May 21st, it looks like they are pretty spot on with their estimate.
Now imagine what the figures would be if there was no shortage.
The heck happened with all these deleted comments? Anyway, I'm sure Sony wanted to make this announcement way earlier but the chip shortage is really stunting their growth. Congrats to the 20M, hopefully things change soon for production.
Why congrats? Its already 18 months into the generation, it could have sold 30 million if there was stock.
Did you even read my comment? I already addressed that. However, a milestone is a milestone.
The next couple of quarters are going to be very interesting for PS5 considering the 18M sales forecast for this fiscal year. Especially if GoW:R drops this year while their direct competition has nothing for the entire year, Sony is going to have a great holiday.
20 MILLIONS SALES!!!! ?
PS5 still has it's work cut out for it in regards to taking out total PS2 sales but this is a great start. Wouldn't be surprised if one day it does.
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I feel like it has reached the milestone really fast and really slow at the same time. If there was a normal supply, it would have reached it ages ago.
Ramp up in production is good. Congrats on 20m to Sony
haven't they announced 19.3m sold consoles on March 31st? Did they only make/sell 700k units in 2 months?
Sony can sell as many PS5's as they're able to put out right now, unfortunately you still can't find one on shelves or even preorder. The PS5/XBOX battle feels more like an arms race for microchips right now more than anything else. I think Sony has still been holding back on a lot of their bigger titles (time will tell) until the problem can be finally sorted out. 20 million is great but you get the feeling it could have 25 million or even 30 million.
Seems like VGC is undertacking by a very slim margin, congrats on keeping up on the adjustments.
Very true, I do remember past announcements the day being like couple weeks before the announcement itself. But a hair off or spot on is basically the same on being an estimative tracking the team work was superb. We don't have similar announcements from MS (and from Nintendo we have theirs quarterly or annual results) but if VGC is getting also within 5 to 10% margin on Xbox we can only say congratulations and keep up the terrific work.
I also think VGChartz numbers are sold to customers while Sony's number is sold to retailers. The difference shouldn't be big, though, because every PS5 is sold in a blink of an eye.
Why do people keep going on about this, all consoles are sold to customers, there is not 1 single ps5 to be found anywhere, these sell out in literally seconds.
This is incorrect. Individuals in retail will tell you that there are PS5's in the warehouse (i.e. not on store floors) at times. Not every PS5 is sold to consumers.
you mean people in waiting lists who already paid for it? Yeah that counts as a sale.
