PS5 vs PS4 Sales Comparison - October 2024 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 December 2024 / 7,220 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 worldwide sales of the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.
The PlayStation 5 launched in November 2020, while the PlayStation 4 launched in November 2013. This does mean the holiday periods for the two consoles do lineup.
PS5 Vs. PS4 Worldwide:
Gap change in latest month: 97,779 - PS4
Gap change over last 12 months: 1,723,070 - PS4
Total Lead: 2,527,543 - PS4
PlayStation 5 Total Sales: 63,577,826
PlayStation 4 Total Sales: 66,105,369
October 2024 is the 48th month the PlayStation 5 has been available for. In the latest month, the gap grew in favor of the PlayStation 4 when compared to the aligned launch of the PlayStation 5 by 0.10 million units.
In the last 12 months, the PS4 has outsold the PS5 by 1.72 million units. The PS4 is currently ahead of the PS5 by 2.53 million units.
The PS5 has sold 63.58 million units in 48 months, while the PS4 sold 66.11 million units. Month 48 for the PS5 is October 2024 and for the PS4 is October 2017.
The PS4 crossed 70 million in month 50, 80 million in month 56, and 90 million in month 62. The PS4 has sold 117.19 million units to date. The PS5 is 53.61 million units behind lifetime PS4 sales.
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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If Sony releases good games in 2025, Ghost of Yotei, Wolverine, Monster Hunter and GTA 6 will help a lot, the PS5 could match the PS4 next year
i could def see ps5 doing much better than ps4 next year. I expect ps5 will prolly fall a bit short of ps4 during this upcoming holiday season, but catch right back up after holiday season 2025 (w/ GTAVI releasing).
edit: who did i piss off? Lol. I see that +3/-3 ratio.
I'm more interested in how it performs in November 2024, since it got its first ever (temporary) price cut for Black Friday week. $375 for the Digital Edition and $425 for the base/disc equipped console. Now that Digital Edition price is only twenty-five bucks less than I what I paid for mine back on launch day in 2020 (since Sony raised its price from $400 to $450), but the base console is the more important one anyway and its price has never gone below $500 until now.
The PS5 had a temporary price cut in Europe around September last year
Sorry, I didn't realize! I kinda pay most attention to the US side of things, and was thinking it never got a price drop (if anything, a price raise) everywhere else. I know here, every past Black Friday week it only got a bundle deal, not a real price drop.
It did get a price cut last year in Europe and North America but it was a sort of strange situation where the price cut was for Black Friday but not beyond it into December, and when the units of the old model ran out it was just over. The new model launched at the increased price and there were no discounts at all. In some retailers the models on sale ran out really quickly.
So I believe November won’t be a big difference this year but December will be a very telling month, as the sales last up to December 20th this time.
The games are certainly important, but the console price is more important. Doesn't matter if SNY starts dropping banger after banger, if the console price is still too high, their hardware sales won't be anywhere near what they could be. Maybe SNY is totally fine with that though.
PS5 launch instantly killed the PS4 sells... a shame. Sony stopped the PS4 production and commercial promotion when it was starting to become a PS2 sells situation: PS4 maybe could have surpassed PS2 the next 5 or 6 years with 50 or 60 new millions sold... even today a cheap Ps4 would be a great machine to get.
Anyway, this next year wil be the definitive test for PS5 . We'll see what happens and how good or bad PS5 puts itself in history books.
Yeah, I do think that was dumb of Sony's part as well. Dropping PS4 Pro made sense of course. But PS4 Slim could have gotten one final processor update (down to 7-nm like the PS5), making it super small and cheap to make. Drop its price down to $199, and keep production going. Easily could have gone from 117 to 150+ million I think, especially as Sony went back on their initial word and ending up brining tons of their own first-party games to PS4 still anway. And most third party titles (Black Ops 6 comes to mind) are still releasing on it.
I totally agree.
correct me if im wrong…but I thought PS4 production cratered in 2020 due almost entirely to the chip shortage? I don’t see why they wouldn’t have wanted two systems selling well, especially when (i) the former had such a large install base, and (ii) they weren’t even producing enough PS5s to keep up with demand early on (giving rise to XBSX).
The chip shortage was more on the PS5/Xbox Series production lines (7-nm/6-nm from TSMC), while PS4 and PS4 Pro were on 16-nm from TSMC. The 16-nm did also experience a tight supply in 2020 but nothing like PS5's production line, which was also at the time the main production node for every smartphone in the world and every GPU/AI chip (beginning stages of the AI hype train then).
PS4 sales were slowing down throughout 2020 before the PS5 launched. It wasn't going to be a PS2 situation even if they dropped the price to $200. They were still making PS4's in 2022. There was a COD MW2 PS4 bundle. It's just they reached the maximum amount of consumers who wanted a PS4. I know previous PS consoles usually kept selling 3+ years even when the new PS was out, but this time that wasn't the case. It seems 2022 was the final year for PS4 consoles, which isn't bad going for another 2 years after your successor launched.
For Microsoft I was shocked they discontinued the Xbox One at the same time the Xbox Series launched. They could have kept selling the Xbox One throughout 2021.
