It’s official, the PS5 has just passed the mark of 65 million consoles sold in just under four years. Indeed, it was during its last fiscal report that Sony confirmed that its latest console had just reached the 65.5 million sales during the last quarter. A great feat for the PlayStation 5 which will celebrate his fourth birthday on November 12 in the USA and next November 19 a Europe.
The PS5 soon in the top 10 best-selling consoles
By reaching the 65.5 million copies soldthe PS5 becomes the thirteenth best-selling console in video game history. It thus surpasses the Nintendo NES, released in 1983 and which combines 61.9 million consoles soldbut nevertheless remains behind several consoles including:
- The PS2 (2000) and its 155 million copies
- The Nintendo DS (2004) and its 154 million copies
- The Switch (2017) and its 146 million copies
- The Game Boy & Game Boy Color (1989/1998) and its 118.7 million copies
- The PS4 (2013) and its 117.2 million copies
- The PlayStation (1994) and its 102.4 million copies
- The Nintendo Wii (2008) and its 101.6 million copies
- The PlayStation 3 (2007) and its 87.4 million copies
- The Xbox 360 (2005) and its 84 million copies
- The Game Boy Advance (2001) and its 81.5 million copies
- The PSP (2004) and its 80 million copies
- The Nintendo 3DS (2011) and its 75.9 million copies
The PS5 remains behind compared to the PS4. In December 2017, four years after its release, the Sony console accumulated 70.6 million machines sold across the world. However, it is important to note that the PS5 had to face two years of significant shortages (between 2020 and 2022) following Covid and semiconductor power supply problems.
So, it still remains a great feat with relatively impressive figures. Finally, despite the two years of shortages, the PS5 is “only” 5 million late on the PS4 which had free reign at the time.
| YEARS | PS4 SALES | PS5 SALES |
| First year (2014/2021) | 18,2 millions | 7.8 million (Covid shortage) |
| Second year (2015/2022) | 30 millions | 24 million (Covid shortage) |
| Third year (2016/2023) | 53,4 millions | 50 millions |
| Fourth year (2017/2024) | 70,6 millions | 65,5 millions |
Of course, these figures do not take into account the PS5 Pro which has been available since yesterday only. The first sales figures for this new version, the PS5, will be taken into account during the next quarterly report at the beginning of 2025. For its part, Microsoft cannot say the same. Xbox Series X/S would have reached 28 million units last September. This still remains much more positive than the sales figures for the Xbox One. As a reminder, only 49 million copies of Microsoft’s previous console were sold between November 2013 and November 2019.
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