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should pass PS4-adjusted sales by the end of the year

40 million sold through (not shipped) by july 16th 2023.
https://sonyinteractive.com/en/playstation-5-surpasses-40-million-in-sales/

Yeah, this figure is until July 16th 2023 for VGC numbers purpose.

Having sell-through is nice. Should give a more proper idea to how many PS5s are in the channel since it was widely believed that Sony overshipped heavily in Q4 to surpass their prior adjusted forecast. Getting another data point is always good, congrats Sony.

Where VGChartz numbers adjusted with the info?
If not, very damn good tracking guys.

VGChartz estimates are missing Americas and rest of world for June, then this sell-through figure from Sony is for the second week of July. We will make sure our estimates have the PS5 crossing 40 million in the correct week.

NPD/Circana should come out tomorrow, so we will have Americas estimates up tomorrow, then rest of world this weekend or on Monday. IF sales are flat in June for those regions it would bring our PS5 estimates up to 39.71M units at the end of June. Looking at that we are either perfectly on track for PS5 to reach 40M in the second week of July or will be a hair too high and will need to adjust our PS5 estimates down slightly. 

Grats Sony and PS5 for reaching this milestone. Hopefully much more of these will zap by.

No adjustments. If you read my other post you will see VGC estimates are either right on track for PS5 to top 40M in the second week of July or we are a tad too high. I will have a better idea once NPD/Circana for June comes out tomorrow. 

Fortunately, a sold through breakdown has also been provided.  Sony can't just overship consoles.  Someone has to be buying them.  Retailers don't have infinite storage space.  

• Q4 2020 - 4.4M
• Q1 2021 - 3.2M (7.6M)
• Q2 2021 - 2.3M (9.9M)
• Q3 2021 - 3.2M (13.1M)
• Q4 2021 - 4.0M (17.1M)
• Q1 2022 - 2.0M (19.1M)
• Q2 2022 - 2.3M (21.4M)
• Q2 2022 - 3.0M (24.4M)
• Q4 2022 - 6.6M (31.0M)
• Q1 2023 - 5.0M (36.0M)
• July 16 2023 - 4.0M (40.0M)

But in reality, given the stock shortages, why would people believe that they needed to  (or even could) overship'?  Why do people think that all of that demand would just evaporate?  Its not logically consistent.  I thought the bet was whether they could actually produce the units to begin with lol.