PS5 Ships 65.5 Million Units as of September 2024 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 November 2024 / 6,047 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment in its financial results announced it has shipped 65.5 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of September 30, 2024.
With 65.5 million PlayStation 5 consoles shipped through the end of June that means 3.8 million units were shipped from July to September. This is down 1.1 million (-22.45%) from the same quarter in 2023 when 4.9 million units were shipped.
For reference, the PlayStation 4 had shipped 4.2 million units in the same quarter for a lifetime total of 67.7 million units shipped as of September 30, 2017. This puts the PS5 behind shipped PS4 units by 2.2 million units.
There were a total of 77.7 million games sold on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 for the quarter. This is up 10.1 million from 67.6 million during the same period a year earlier. Digital sales accounted for 70 percent of software sales.
There were 5.3 million first-party games sold across the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. This is up 0.6 million from 4.7 million a year ago.
There were 116 million monthly active users on the PlayStation Network, an increase of nine million from 107 million a year ago. Sony did not disclose the number of PlayStation Plus subscribers. It was at 47.4 million at the end of March 2023.
Sony's Game & Network Services Segment for the quarter ending September 30, 2024, reported revenue increased 244.5 billion yen ($1.60 billion) year-over-year to 2,973.4 billion yen ($19.46 billion), while operating income increased 142.0 billion yen ($0.93 billion) to 389.3 billion yen ($2.55 billion).
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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Astro bot sold 1.5 million as of 3rd Nov 2024 (58 days).
i mean...it's really not just "a game". It's Asstrobot. And we're comparing it to Zelda EoW? Have we lost all common sense? Facts.
Oh god not you too😂😂😂
you are one of very few on this site with critical thinking skills. Joke didn’t land it seems lol.
Let's see how much the pro adds
yeah i don’t think outside of the hardcore base anybody’s gonna be throwing away $800+ for some extra pixels. We’ve hit a point in graphical fidelity where you can’t really go any further, and I think most consumers realize this.
I'm sure the Pro will have a good bump at release... but I doubt it will increase the overall average of units sold per month going forward.
Lower the price
Looks like the PS5 price increase is paying off in revenue and profit, despite selling less units. Probably other factors like exchange rates do also contribute to the massive increase.
I really don't think its the console sales. I think the boost in income came from the increase in game sales yoy of more than 10 million units.
Update the front page...? There's no way there is more than 3 million units sitting on shelves.
Anyway, this should be released in January when the holidays and Post holiday sales bump things 65.5 million is such an odd data release and really odd timing.
these are some good figures! Much better than 2.4mil last quarter (not sure what happened there…?). Vg console market is looking a bit more healthy again.
Over shipping in Q3/Q4 is what happened to make the numbers look better
So whenever Sony has a good quarter we should just assume it's only because of overshipping?
See his other response in which is clarifies that he was not referring to the current quarter, and was explaining the weak number for the previous quarter.
yes, pretty much that.
Are you saying Sony overshipped this most recent quarter? Or Sony overshipped F'25Q3/4, explaining the lower figures for F'26Q1?
Sony overshipped (calendar) Q4 2023 /Q1 of 2024 which led to poor shipments in Q2 2024 (shipments lower than demand). I think this quarter shipments allign with the demand.
So as of end of September 2024:
65.4m shipped officially, 61.94m sold-through according to VGC estimates.
Seems quite on track to me. Good job!
Or slightly over-/undertracked?
More than likely slightly undertracked, so I've gone and adjusted up our sell-through estimates to 62.33M at the end of September. The gap has grown from 2.72M at the end of June to 3.17M at the end of September as Sony starts to stockpile more consoles for the holidays.
More adjustments might happen tomorrow (later today). I'm quite tired and will take a look at it in the morning when I'm not tired as it is 2am here and talk with Machina to see what he thinks.
I'm really curious if PS5 Pro will be the key to outsell PS4...
ps4 pro sold just over 20 million units according to a recent comment from the current ceo of Playstation. If the ps5 pro follows the same path it should sell in a similar way, in my opinion the ps5 pro will be more useful than the ps4 pro due to gta 6 which will be extremely heavy. Many forget but the ps4 pro was launched 1 year before the current ps5 pro. The ps5 should match the ps4 next year and maybe even surpass it
The Insomniac leak had the PS4 Pro at 14.5 million as of Jan 2020. So there's no way it's over 20 million.
70% of sales are digital. Sales of physical games seem increasingly irrelevant.
But it shouldn't be confused.
Even if 100% were bought digitally - if these sales stem from consoles with a disc drive, then this would be a complete picture.
People with disc drives also buy digital.
People without disc drives don't buy physical.
This equation shouldn't be forgotten about.
I bought the original model with a disk drive (mainly for my physical PS4 games) and i only buy digital for several years now.
I really don't wanna hurt anyone's feelings here but there is absolutley no way in hell not calling Astro Bot's sales underwhelming! I mean its not a disaster but 1,5 million in nearly 2 MONTHS (!!)? Does that mean Zelda's first 5 days nearly DOUBLED Astro's first 2 MONTHS?
IDK seems to me the one that get hurts most is the zelda fans over astro bot selling a humble little million for some reason....like woopty doo a long running franchise since 90s is more popular than astro bot a game that came from a free PS5 demo. Might as well start bragging about COD selling more than xdefiant....what a shocker.
Soo?
Lol. What happened here??
lol, someone got butt hurt
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