PS5 vs PS4 Sales Comparison in Japan - February 2024 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 April 2024 / 4,440 Views
The VGChartz sales comparison series of articles are updated monthly and each one focuses on a different sales comparison using our estimated video game hardware figures. The charts include comparisons between the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch, as well as with older platforms. There are articles based on our worldwide estimates, as well as the US, Europe, and Japan.
This monthly series compares the aligned Japanese sales of the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.
The PlayStation 5 launched in November 2020 in Japan, while the PlayStation 4 launched in February 2014. This does mean the holiday periods for the two consoles do not lineup.
PS5 Vs. PS4 Japan:
Gap change in latest month: 78,798 - PS5
Gap change over last 12 months: 263,825 - PS5
Total Lead: 414,381 - PS5
PlayStation 5 Total Sales: 5,346,958
PlayStation 4 Total Sales: 4,932,577
February 2024 is the 40th month the PlayStation 5 has been available for. In the latest month, the gap grew in favor of the PlayStation 5 when compared to the aligned launch of the PlayStation 4 by 78,798 units.
In the last 12 months, the PS5 has outsold the PS4 by 263,825 units. The PS5 is currently ahead by 414,381 units.
The 40th month for the PS5 in Japan is February 2024, while for the PS4 it is May 2017. The PS5 has sold 5.35 million units, while the PS4 sold 4.93 million units during the same timeframe. The PS4 sold current PS5 sales in month 43.
The PS4 crossed 5 million in month 41, 6 million in month 47, and 7 million in month 53. The PS4 has sold 9.67 million units to date. The PS5 is currently 4.32 million units behind the lifetime sales of the PS4 in Japan.
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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My guess is that the ps5 sells 11 million in Japan surpassing the ps4 and ps3
my guess is around 45mil. Once Nintendo inevitably goes third-party, Japanese will be flocking to 4k ray-traced 60fps Pokemon in a heartbeat.
I'd say Sony has a higher probability to go third party than Nintendo does. Either way, this won't be happening anytime soon
wow really good instight
thanks!! I put a lot of time and thought into this prediction. I'm really proud of it, so your kind words mean a lot. :.)
Even if this is just a joke, there are so many versions of handheld consoles now that, if the switch 2 is similar to the switch it might struggle because it's competing with so many other devices.
They address different markets. The handheld pcs are just another way of playing pc games, they don't attract exclusives which is why theyre niche. The average person wouldn't know what a ROG Ally is. The combined totals of all current gen handheld pcs amounts to less sold than the Dreamcast. Switch 2 has nothing to worry about. As long as the marketing is on point, there's backwards compatibility and the launch software is compelling it'll do what it needs to do
Hot take, but I think Nintendo can even get away with the successor not having B/C.
Though I do believe that the successor will have B/C. Nintendo's past is strong in B/C.
They could get away with it, but it would 100% harm the goodwill they've established in consumer minds with the Switch 1 and would no doubt harm initial sales. The Wii U to Switch transition had an excuse as the medium was entirely different. I want them to get everything right with this launch, so here's hoping there's some form of backwards compat. Even if it's just digital purchases. That they can def get away with
hahaha, nice, I mean, I'd actually like 4k ray traced Pokemon over "worse than PS2 textures" Pokemon we've been getting, let's hope the extra time in the oven and the Switch 2 performance mean the next Pokemon wows us
I personally loved Pokemon Scarlet (actually my favorite Pokemon in 10 years, was fun with my friend running around in multiplayer too) because I played it on PC at 1.5x speed, that solved the excruciatingly slow menus and more
I predict we wont be seeing Pokémon on the successor until Gen 10 releases in 2026.
We will see B/C though, through the likes of Legends Z-A, but the first official Pokémon game for the successor will be Gen 10 2026.
Hot take part 2: I'd rather them go back to the pixelated art style we had from Gen 1 - Gen 5.
i'd love high end pixel art, Nintendo doesn't do it because they don't have the talent?
maybe they don't have pixel art talent anymore, because cheap low res polys are cheap to make
Mario with 4k pixel art could be incredible
Nintendo should make their IP using pixel art like "REPLACED" or "Yes, your grace" etc., like Dead Cells
look up Replaced, incredible stuff
more Octopath type stuff
This is incredibly misleading as there are slides from a developer conference in Japan where Sony compares the buying habits of different regions and the average PSN account in Japan spends more money then any other region but they buy half as many games as the average American account. They spend lots of money on DLC and microtransactions.
Digital rate for PS is also very high, much higher than people think. The same slides showed that the number of physical only buyers and digital only buyers in Japan is in line with other territories like the EU. This is borne out in publicly released sales figures, Ghost of Tsushima has officially sold 1M+ units in Japan yet the famitsu physical sales charts never even hit 500k. Sony first party games generally have much lower digital sales than third parties, from the insomniac leak most didn’t even hit 50% worldwide. GoT is also 4 years old with sales only trending further to digital. Armored core VI sold around 200k physical copies according to famitsu but total sales in Japan were 700k although this includes PC, which is generally a small but growing market in Japan, so exact digital percentage per platform is hard to ascertain. Either way over 70% of people bought a digital copy of a game in a country that some people try to claim doesn’t buy digital.
