Famitsu Sales: Week 12, 2025 (Mar 17 - Mar 23)

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curl-6 said:

Pinkie_pie said:

It will most likely have a longer life span than the PS4 or being in production longer. It seemed like the PS4 was phased out immediately after the PS5 was released . It was impossible to buy a new PS4 during PS5 early years

It's possible PS5 could last longer than PS4 did, but at present there's no way we can know either way; Sony may choose to kill off PS5 in short order to drive adoption of PS6, much like last time or like other generational transitions such as DS to 3DS.

Currently PS5 is tracking behind PS4 in Japan, and if Monster Hunter Wilds couldn't raise its baseline beyond a few weeks, I'm unsure if any game can, while price cuts are seemingly no longer a thing in the console space nowadays.

When launch aligned that's the case but the PS4 was at just under 6.53m as of March 24th 2018 since it launched three months later in Japan so that way the PS5 is still about 230k ahead. It should still fall behind within the next 6-12 months though so will need a 2028 release for the PS6 to outsell it.