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Zippy6 on 05 February 2026
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Panicradio said:
Zippy6 said:

These firms estimate a multitude of things, MAU's, installbase, consumer spending habits, etc etc. Shipments are reported by Nintendo/Sony. The 138m is not shipments.

As you asked ChatGPT previously in this thread about Xbox sales, you can also ask it about what "138m consoles outstanding" means.

You'll get a response including this: "In finance and games publishing, “outstanding” ≈ “active or existing in the market”, not merely shipped." "When a publisher says “138m video game consoles outstanding”, they are almost always estimating the installed base."

How is that possible?

In February 2025, T2 had reported the same chart indicating 94M+as of November 2024:

https://ir.take2games.com/static-files/3ae54582-44bf-4163-9024-4da314c31541

We do know that Sony had reported 75M shipped as of December 2024:

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/463967/ps5-ships-750-million-units-as-of-december-2024/

What are you making out of these data now in terms of Series sales referring to T2's newest 138M+ figure?

I'm not sure why you think the 94m+ figure being sell-through doesn't make sense?

This site has PS5+XBS sales at 93.7m combined sell-through as of November 1st 2024.

The 138m+ figure, if for the end of December (we don't know adding to the inaccuracy of this 138m+ estimate) would break down like:

PS5: 89.44m (VGC estimate)

SW2: 15.59m (VGC estimate)

XBS: 32.97m+ (138m+ minus the others)

Seems like the most plausible breakdown to me.

It also has to be remembered that this is just an analysis firm, this 138m is not gospel. We've all seen garbage from places like superdata and Alinea Analytics before. Not saying these firms aren't more reputable but they're also not hard data.