PS5 Ships 75.0 Million Units as of December 2024 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 February 2025 / 17,719 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment in its financial results announced it has shipped 75.0 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of December 31, 2024.
With 75.0 million PlayStation 5 consoles shipped that means 9.5 million units were shipped from October to December. This is up 1.3 million from the same quarter in 2023 when 8.2 million units were shipped.
For reference, the PlayStation 4 had shipped 9.0 million units in the same quarter for a lifetime total of 76.7 million units shipped as of December 31, 2017. This puts the PS5 behind shipped PS4 units by 1.7 million units.
There were a total of 95.9 million games sold on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 for the quarter. This is up 6.2 million from 89.7 million during the same period a year earlier. Digital sales accounted for 74 percent of software sales.
There were 11.6 million first-party games sold across the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. This is down 0.7 million from 12.3 million a year ago.
There were 129 million monthly active users on the PlayStation Network, an increase of six million from 132 million a year ago.
Sony's Game & Network Services Segment for the quarter ending December 31, 2024, reported revenue increased 256.3 billion yen ($1.66 billion) year-over-year to 3,439.4 billion yen ($22.33 billion), while operating income increased 36.9 billion yen ($0.24 billion) to 386.1 billion yen ($2.51 billion).
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That beat out all expectations. For anyone wondering we are adjusting up our PS5 estimates so the gap between our sell-through estimates and shipped remains about the same as the previous quarter, which is ~3M.
I actually thought the PS5 might have been slightly over tracked here so 75m shipped is quite surprising indeed
So that puts current vgchartz sell through estimate upto 19.65m for the year, only around 50k short of the absolute peak year of the PS4.
The disconnect between that number and the Internet discourse around the PS5 this year is utterly bizarre.
Hating on PlayStation is an industry within itself and is just used for clicks or attention... 'oh look everyone hates this massively popular thing. Now click here to see why you should hate it even tho you don't '
Phenomenal results. 9.5 million in Q3 2024 vs 8.2 million Q3 2023.
As of 31st dec 2024- 75 million shipped vs 71.03 million sold as per vgchartz estimates.
Looks like PS5 might be undertracked by quite a bit.
How about the Series units? There's literally no room for 32 million based on Take Two or AMD's figures now.
Xbox Series Consoles are comically overtracked. The thing that is funny about this is that Nintendo and Sony have to show data, but Xbox doesn't and the data we do have points to a much lower sales volume. Yet we get this gigantic overtracking.
Yes, we likely have it overtracked, but not by a comical amount. I'm going to wait to on Machina's thoughts on what we should do. We had already discussed the gap for PS5 so knew where we wanted it to be (~3M below shipment).
Take-Two used IDG estimates, which for the end of 2023 adjusted their own estimates from an original 77M up to 81M. So it is possible they could adjust up the 94M figure.
Quote from AMD CEO: "This console generation has been very strong. Highlighted by cumulative unit shipments surpassing 100 Million in the fourth quarter."
That suggests the 100M shipment figure for PS5 and XS happened sometime during the 4th quarter and unlikely at the end. I am guessing if it hit 110M during the quarter AMD would have said so.
Edit: Adding one more thing. Historically US has accounted four around 50% of Xbox for each generation and we have Xbox Series X|S at 16.48M at the end of 2024, which should be within a few % of NPD/Circana data given we have Xbox One data and they provided how much behind the Xbox Series X|S is to the Xbox One by %.
This would be much easier if Microsoft have us shipment figures like Sony and Nintendo do.
I remember vgchartz and other places had Xbox One at 50-51 million sold lifetime, but it was actually 58 million. We learned this because of a Microsoft presentation. I'm just going to assume all numbers are wrong until Microsoft themselves gives us a number.
At that same conference, in summer 2023, they said the series X/S was 21m, right? That gives a very good idea.
Which is why I find it ridiculous a lot of people are running with Take 2's estimates and AMD's numbers for how many Xbox Series sold. They're saying 26 million, but that would mean Xbox Series did 5 million in 1.5 years which that is not true. Ofc VGchartz might be wrong too, but I think they're at least a lot closer to the real number than what these fanboys are running with.
Damn, this is huge!
Playstation drew almost double the revenue (~11bn vs. ~6.6bn) compared to Xbox in Q3, hardware sales up, operating income up, overall software sales up, PSN users up.
So while Nintendo and Playstation are still or were banking record numbers, the only console platform that fell short is Xbox after only 4 years in, despite Call of Duty in Gamepass, despite 500 Mio. MAU, despite Indiana Jones, despite ABK, despite "game of the decade" Starfield, etc.
And 2025 is already projected to be an even bigger year in terms of software line-up alone.
Man, last and current generation between Playstation and Xbox, this isn't even anywhere close to a "console war".
It's a bloodbath.
It has been a bloodbath since the release of XBox 360 which sold well. This is a catastrophe for gamers, as PlayStation needs competition.
I don't understand. It seems the Internet hate is fake. With concord and everything. Truly shows that the average user , not hardcore into gaming news. Should be your priority customer (Madden. Cod , FIFA players)
This is why Sony just shuts up. Doesn't talk to anyone and continues to do what they do. It's also why they stopped announcing games (for the most part) 5 years before they are ready. Also why they toned down their SOPs with games being shown. They realized none of that stuff works. Look at Xbox, talks to everyone has amazing directsSOPs or whatever they call it and in one quarter PS has outsold them for the year.
Boom!
why there is no thread about that, just like for every other quarter report from Sony ?
Inventory is 46% less compared to a year ago so the gap between sell through and sell in is lower this time.
That's an extremely interesting stat
With big game releases this year the ps5 can match and perhaps surpass the ps4 this year.
Woah that is an insane result
I’m pleasantly shocked by the results!!
PS5 is KILLING it with those super impressive numbers!!
Its my favourite Sony console along with the PS3.
AMD shipped 100 M of console GEN 9 (Q4 2024 as of december 31, 2024)
Sony shipped 75M of PS5 (Q3 FY 2024 as of december 31, 2024)
So
X/S : ?
Quote from AMD CEO: "This console generation has been very strong. Highlighted by cumulative unit shipments surpassing 100 Million in the fourth quarter."
That suggests the 100M shipment figure for PS5 and XS happened sometime during the 4th quarter and unlikely at the end. I am guessing if it hit 110M during the quarter AMD would have said so.
But yes we likely have to adjust down the Xbox Series X|S.
Yes, in reality maybe around 27 million XBox X/S were sold. And don't forget the new PS5 Pro is included in those numbers.
RIP 3DS, Game Boy Advance and PSP are next.
"There were 129 million monthly active users on the PlayStation Network, an increase of six million from 132 million a year ago."
What?
Also, somebody can explain me the difference among "Sony Interactive Entertainment" and "Sony's Game & Network Services", because the fiscal results are from the last one. Is SIE a part of the second?
"somebody can explain me the difference among "Sony Interactive Entertainment" and "Sony's Game & Network Services""
I believe the difference is that Sony's Game & Network Services is the Division/Segment under Sony Group, whereas SIE is the name of the actual company that is under that division.
They're pretty much the same thing since SIE is the only gaming company under Sony Group, but kind of not.
It's kind of similar to Microsoft's structure, where they have Microsoft Gaming, and underneath them is Zenimax and Activision. Activision is a subsidiary basically like Sony Interactive, whereas Microsoft Gaming is a division of the parent company like Sony Game and Network Services is a division of Sony Group.
Thanks. Is what I suspect, but I don't know if Sony has any other company in the "network services" or is just SIE (the old SCE) alone.
When you search for fiscal results for SIE, SG&NS is what normally appears.
