PS5 Ships 92.2 Million Units as of December 2025

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Geralt99 said:

trunkswd said:

The gap for our sell-through estimates compared to the units shipped did shrink from 2.96 million at the end of September to 2.76 million units at the end of December. As of right now there won't be adjustments, but I will see what Machina thinks. We do want the gap between shipped and sold to start shrinking a bit at this point as PS5 sales start to slow down. 

I have said this before and will say it again.

Gap for PS5 being much higher than other consoles is definately weird.

Switch 2 gap is 1.78 million (15.59 vs 17.37)

Switch gap is 1.62 million (153.75 vs 155.37)

For PS5 it should be around 2.2 to 2.4 million at best.

There is no way Sony would be overshipping a console that is 5 years old.

Sony has previously revealed sell-through figures. They announced 56 million sell-through at the end of FY 2023 (March 2024) at the same time there were 59.3 million PS5s shipped for a gap of 3.3 million between shipped and sold, so it isn't unheard of. 

We have an estimated 2.97 million PS5s sold from January to March 2025 and even with sales on the decline we are only talking between 3 and 4 months worth of stock that is in transit, on store shelves, and in warehouses. 

PS5 sell-through - Page 14 - https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/business_segment_meeting/pdf/2024/GNS_E.pdfvSony Business Segment Meeting 2024 Game & Network Services Segment

PS5 shipped - https://sonyinteractive.com/en/our-company/business-data-sales/

On Switch 2 - Newer consoles tend to have much smaller gaps between shipped and sell-through, which usually grows until it reaches its peak years.

On Switch 1 - With a gap of 1.62 million even if sales hold up better than expected and are down 50% year-on-year it would take until teh middle to late summer to sell that amount.