PS5 vs PS4 Sales Comparison - April 2025 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 June 2025 / 11,147 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: 381,807 - PS4
Gap change over last 12 months: 1,321,823 - PS4
Total Lead: 2,973,044 - PS4
PlayStation 5 Total Sales: 75,575,096
PlayStation 4 Total Sales: 78,548,140
April 2025 is the 54th 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 0.38 million units.
In the last 12 months, the PS4 has outsold the PS5 by 1.32 million units. The PS4 is currently ahead of the PS5 by 2.97 million units.
The PS5 has sold 75.58 million units in 54 months, while the PS4 sold 78.55 million units. Month 54 for the PS5 is April 2025 and for the PS4 is April 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 41.62 million units behind lifetime PS4 sales.
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The gap chart prints a denied breakout (lower local high, higher local low), so a continuation of the trend (PS4 lead) is very likely. Especially if the gap increases > 3M.
with ensuing price hikes (EDIT) in EU/JP, I have no doubt this gap will grow significantly. GTAVI will give a very strong push and the legs of PS5 could mean PS4 gets overtaken, but this year is not going to be too kind to Sony.
Ensuing price hikes? I think we should stop talking about price hikes until they're actually announced. They just did a price CUT and people on here are talking price hikes?
im talking about the price hikes in EU/JP. (though the word “ensuing” might be a bit confusing, as it is refers to future. My intent was that since the hikes didn’t come until mid-May iirc, the April data has yet to capture these future hikes. Hence, the hikes are ensuing.) And those were temporary discounts for Days of Play.
Ok I see sorry I forgot about those. Don't think it will make much difference though as Japan sales weren't spectacular anyway and Sony owns Europe so if anyone wants a console they'll still buy a PS5
Sony doesn't really own Europe anymore. Normally Europe leads the regional sales numbers, but in case of the PS5, it's the US who does, and European sales have a marked drop compared to those of the PS4.
The reason is probably that Europeans are now going back to PC gaming and leave consoles altogether.
Ok well they own Europe in terms of consoles then.
I believe that the PS5 is a bit underrated here; Sony announced 77.8 million units shipped by the end of March. How long would it take to reach that number? 5 months?
I wonder what the maximum gap between shipped and sold the VGChartz crew allows. Personally I don't think the gap should be any bigger than 1 million but VGChartz disagrees.
with the current tariff situation, there has been lots of stockpiling. Makes sense that shipped would be abnormally above sold atm.
I know but I don't think people are realising just how hard it would be to keep 2 million ps5's stockpiled away. That's an enormous amount and PS5 boxes aren't small.
