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Sony Expects PS5 to Overtake Launch Aligned PS4 Sales in the Coming Months

Sony Expects PS5 to Overtake Launch Aligned PS4 Sales in the Coming Months - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 June 2023 / 5,148 Views

Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan in a new presentation has revealed the company expects the PlayStation 5 to catch up to launch aligned sales of the PlayStation 4 by the second quarter of fiscal year 2023, which runs from July to September 2023. 

Sony also expects launch aligned PlayStation 5 sales to surpass the PlayStation 4 by the third quarter of fiscal year 2023, which runs from October to December 2023.

In the presentation, Sony has also revealed PlayStation 5 sell-through sales per quarter since the console launch in November 2020. At the end of March 2023, Sony has sold-through 36 million PS5 consoles, compared to 38.4 million units shipped. This means there was a gap of 2.4 million units between sell-through and shipped for the PlayStation 5 at the end of March.

PlayStation 5 sell-through figures according to Sony:

Quarter Ending Quarterly Sales Total Sales
Dec-20 4.4 million 4.4 million
Mar-21 3.2 million 7.6 million
Jun-21 2.3 million 9.9 million
Sep-21 3.2 million 13.1 million
Dec-21 4.0 million 17.1 million
Mar-22 2.0 million 19.1 million
Jun-22 2.3 million 21.4 million
Sep-22 3.0 million 24.4 million
Dec-22 6.6 million 31.0 million
Mar-23 5.0 million 36.0 million


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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8 Comments
trunkswd (on 23 May 2023)

For those wondering VGChartz estimates for the PS5 at the end of March 2023 are currently just over 36M units. But below 36.1M units. It is possible PS5 is above the 36M sell-through figure from Sony at the end of March, but it just didn't reach 36.1M.

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jvmkdg trunkswd (on 24 May 2023)

as far as I remember sales were at 35.94

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siebensus4 (on 24 May 2023)

Looks like Sony is planning with an awesome holiday season. I expect PS5 outselling the competition if Nintendo doesn't offer new hardware and Xbox isn't able to outsell PS5 in the US.

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padib (on 23 May 2023)

Dayum

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Pemalite (on 24 May 2023)

I think Xbox is seeing similar increased sell-through and Nintendo is just killing it.

Market looks healthy.

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AJNShelton Pemalite (on 24 May 2023)

No, not really

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DekutheEvilClown Pemalite (on 24 May 2023)

Sure, but only in the way that -25% is similar to +180%.

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DonFerrari Pemalite (on 30 May 2023)

They had a big decrease in the past quarter that was quite significative compared to the same quarter on the year prior. Or you mean on a curve compared to X1?

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