PS5 vs PS4 Sales Comparison - March 2025 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 May 2025 / 22,585 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: 198,714 - PS4
Gap change over last 12 months: 759,524 - PS4
Total Lead: 2,211,537 - PS4
PlayStation 5 Total Sales: 75,282,951
PlayStation 4 Total Sales: 77,494,488
March 2025 is the 53rd 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 0.20 million units.
In the last 12 months, the PS4 has outsold the PS5 by 0.76 million units. The PS4 is currently ahead of the PS5 by 2.21 million units.
The PS5 has sold 75.28 million units in 53 months, while the PS4 sold 77.49 million units. Month 53 for the PS5 is March 2025 and for the PS4 is March 2018.
The PS4 crossed 80 million units sold worldwide in month 56, 90 million in month 62, and 100 million in month 72. The PS4 sold 117.20 million units lifetime. The PS5 is 41.92 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 Bluesky.
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This is the closest chart of all, Sony being able to hold almost the same sales for PS4 and PS5 is kinda impressive. Those 2 million consoles gap is pointless with how successful the PS5 is.
PS4 was cheap to make compared to PS5. Sony played it really safe after the really painful PS3 era. Luckily for Sony MS botched the hardware of the Xbone really bad trying to cut costs to include the very expensive kinect 2. It made the PS4 look much more appealing than it actually was.
PS5 is being helped somewhat by the weakness of the Xbox in the US this gen, but it isn't enough to balance out the drop in sales in Europe.
However, the difference is still small enough that the PS5 could catch up and overtake the PS4 once their respective successors are out (assuming about the same release window for their respective successors), as PS4's legs were severely cut short by the pandemic.
this comparison will be interesting to watch. If Sony does enforce a US price hike (as they have already done in EU & JP), then the gap is going to grow. Esp with the launch of NSW2 coming up soon. I see GTAVI closing the gap, and likely giving enough late-lifecycle momentum to boost PS5 above PS4 LTD…and then there’s the question of how long until XB(10th gen)/PS6 releases. Very interesting…it could go many ways.
