Sony: PS5 Sales Top 40 Million Units as of July 16 - Sales

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Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan announced the PlayStation 5 has sold over 40 million units as of the week ending July 16, 2023.

To compare, the PlayStation 4 reached 40 million units sold two months faster in May 2016. The PS4 remains the fastest-selling PlayStation console to reach 40 million units sold.

Sony previously announced the PlayStation 5 had sold over 30 million units in December 2022, 20 million units in June 2022 and 10 million units in July 2021.

"We launched PlayStation 5 in November 2020 and the world was in a strange and different place than when we announced the console in 2019," reads the blog post from Ryan. "Despite the unprecedented challenges of COVID, our teams and our partners worked diligently to deliver PS5 on time.

"We continued to face headwinds with the pandemic, and it took months for supply chains to normalize so we could have the inventory to keep up with demand. For more months than I care to remember, we kept thanking our community for their patience while working through these issues. But now PS5 supply is well-stocked and we are seeing that pent up demand finally being met.

"With the support of PlayStation fans, we have reached a milestone of 40 million PS5 consoles sold through to gamers since launch. Thank you so much to our community of gamers – without you this would have been an impossible task.

"PS5 launched with the best catalog of games in our history and the momentum for great content keeps getting stronger. From innovative indie games to AAA blockbusters, there are more than 2,500 PS5 games now available, and it has never been a better time to experience PS5 In the last two months alone, we have seen incredible new games from our partners, including Final Fantasy XVI, Diablo IV, and Street Fighter 6."

He added, "We developed PS5 with our community at the forefront of our thinking, which led us to deliver innovations like the adaptive triggers and haptic feedback in the DualSense controller, as well as PlayStation VR2. PlayStation Studios and our third-party partners have jumped in to take advantage of these capabilities and expand their creative toolkit to deliver a generational leap in the experiences they bring to gamers."

Sony had previously shared a breakdown of sell-through figures of the PS5 for every quarter since launch (followed by lifetime sell-through figures):

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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UnderwaterFunktown (on 27 July 2023)

I hope they keep announcing every 10 mil, never hurts to have more data

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trunkswd (on 27 July 2023)

VGChartz estimates are missing Americas and rest of world for June, then this sell-through figure from Sony is for the second week of July. We will make sure our estimates have the PS5 crossing 40 million in the correct week.

NPD/Circana should come out tomorrow (July 28), so we will have Americas estimates up tomorrow, then rest of world this weekend or on Monday. IF sales are flat in June for those regions it would bring our PS5 estimates up to 39.71M units at the end of June. Looking at that we are either perfectly on track for PS5 to reach 40M in the second week of July or will be a hair too high and will need to adjust our PS5 estimates down slightly.

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jvmkdg trunkswd (on 27 July 2023)

willian how is the ps5 compared to the ps4? Has the lucuna diminished?

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Kakadu18 trunkswd (on 28 July 2023)

Circana was delayed again.

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NobleTeam360 (on 27 July 2023)

Congrats, PS5 is a great console and has some great games.

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BraLoD (on 27 July 2023)

Insane how the PS5 will have sold 60M before there is even a Slim, if it is really coming late next year.

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Wman1996 BraLoD (on 27 July 2023)

Anything can happen, but a Slim in 2024 would be unlikely in the first half. So yes, a Q3 or Q4 2024 release of a Slim is enough time from now for the PS5 to reach the 60 million milestone.

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BonfiresDown (on 27 July 2023)

50M this year should be a lock and I expect lifetime sales to at least match the PS4.

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jvmkdg (on 27 July 2023)

The PS5 is expected to pass the line-up sales of the PS4 in October. However I am more looking forward to a new showcase. 2024 is currently empty of games

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CosmicSex jvmkdg (on 27 July 2023)

Off of the top of my head is Rise of the Ronin, Final Fantasy 7:Rebirth, Wolverine. So it is not currently empty. They also got stuff like Phantom Blade Zero, There are like nearly a dozen other announced games for or probably coming in 2024.

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method114 jvmkdg (on 27 July 2023)

They have games just not a lot. Honestly though with the output Sony has had lately I'm not surprised. They've set such high expectations that just having a couple of games isn't enough for them anymore.

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Wman1996 (on 27 July 2023)

SNES/ Super Famicom is at 49.10 million. PS5 should match or exceed that in Q1 2024 (the end of the fiscal year).
Then again, Sony could have a massive Q4 this year where they sell at least 7 million (they sold 6.6 million in Q4 2022) and pick up over 2 million for the rest of this quarter. Not a given to beat the SNES in 2023, but possible. 50 million at the end of the fiscal year, or at least right as the new fiscal year begins seems a lock.
These numbers are interesting. 5 million and up a quarter seems to be the standard from Q4 2022 to the present and likely won't stop until at least some point in 2025. Now that supply issues are greatly decreased and more and more PS5 versions of games are releasing, the sales are picking up more than ever.

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DekutheEvilClown Wman1996 (on 27 July 2023)

Sony has disclosed their target is to have shipped 63.4m by the end of the FY, March 2024. So your prediction is very conservative.

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