It’s a 125-130 million selling console or maybe even more.
My breakdown and prediction;
2020 - 4.4m. Launch and Covid
2021 - 12.7m. Mostly unable to meet demand
2022 - 13.9m. Similar conditions to 2021
2023 - 21.4m. Recovery, demand being meet
2024 - 19.6m. Price increase
2025 - 17.4m. Stabilized demand and pricing
2026 - 14.5m. GTA6 maintains momentum for PS5
2027 - 11.5m. Price drops. GTA6 1st full year
2028 - 7.5m. PS6 announced. 1st party begin to drop bombs to send off PS5 and build confidence for PS6
2029 - 3.5m. PS6 launch, folks begin to move on
10 year/lifetime tally - 125m-132m.
With this prediction, and due to unique circumstances in this gen, Sony takes full advantage of the 10 year life cycle and the PS5 gets pushed to the absolute end of life with no next gen option on the market to disrupt it. A first for the brand.
Last edited by loy310 - on 07 February 2026
