PS5 Ships 59.3 Million Units as of March 2024

[Soundwave]

zeldaring said:

Soundwave said:

I would project this gen probably finishes around 112-114 mill PS5s (down a bit from PS4) and 39 mill XBox Series S/X (down a chunk from XBox One) ... that's about 153 million units combined ... the XBox 360 + PS3 combined (leaving the Wii entirely out) sold about 172 million like 15 years ago.

You can see why publishers are scrambling and having huge problems with rising budgets, because there is no growth in this userbase at all, it's declined from 15 years ago significantly actually.

Naw gtav6 will be game changer and probably send ps5 to 130 million plus.

Also if the stationery home console was the problem handhelds like steamdeck would be doing much better it really just the PC market getting much bigger now.

I doubt that because Sony themselves doubts it. They have already said they feel PS5 sales for this gen have peaked (yearly) and are forecasting lower sales next fiscal year even with PS5 Pro and GTAVI potentially. PS4 finished with 117 million and that was with a COVID sales surge for game consoles. The PS5 is now globally behind the PS4, so to pull ahead and finish ahead 15 million would be quite a magic trick when their forecast sales for next year are forecasting the PS4 lead over the PS5 will actually grow by another 1 million (PS4 shipped 19 mill for the equivalent year, Sony is forecasting only 18 mill PS5 this fiscal year). 

I think many people interested in buying a PS5 for GTAVI already own a PS5 frankly. 

There's a younger audience today who doesn't care about consoles like the PS5/XBox ... I think that audience is their problem. They are fine playing Roblox or Fortnite or Genshin Impact or whatever and don't need a PS5 or expensive hardware to do it. 

There's no growth in this segment because it's becoming more and more a market for old people (30+ year olds even now getting into 40 year olds) which isn't a growing market. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 14 May 2024