PS5 Ships 61.7 Million Units as of June 2024 (2.4M for April-June Quarter)

[Norion]

Considering how much more expensive the PS5 is than the PS4 was at this point in its life I'd say 2.4m is good though definitely not great. It's doing better than the PS4 in the US and similar to it in Japan so it's mainly Europe that's causing the decline which is a big deal since that region is not gonna be the strongest for Playstation this time and other ones aren't gonna do enough to pick up the slack.

Things should improve soon though since the the release of the PS5 Pro till GTA 6 should be a strong stretch for the console and in general it has potential to keep up better the next fiscal year. For the meantime though it is noteworthy that both Xbox and Playstation are declining and prices will a major reason for that but I imagine the growth of PC is contributing as well since the former is declining but the latter only seems to be benefiting from that in the US.

I also wonder how much of the notable increase YoY for PlayStation Network users is due to them pushing that on PC. I would guess at least a lot of it since I dunno why it'd increase that much otherwise and them not sharing the amount of PS+ subscribers is telling though the likely decline in that was probably worth the money they're getting from the price increase.

Last edited by Norion - on 07 August 2024