Technically, "global launch" could refer to the boxes of the traditional three major market regions being ticked, so Japan, North America and Europe. The PS5 achieved all this in late 2020, but the PS4 had a staggered launch (North America and Europe in November 2013, Japan in February 2014). So it's possible that week 1 of PS4's global launch falls into February 2014 which then would give PS4 sales in China three months more.

It remains an unequal comparison between the PS4 and PS5, but it may not be as lopsided as previously stated by me or later by you.

Cumulative spending and PS+ subscriptions are also for the Chinese market specifically, which brings us back to the unequal comparison where the PS5 had many months more than the PS4 to attain its numbers. In other words, it's the same bullshit.

China moving up in the ranking is the same thing: The PS4 only had a few months of shipments at best whereas the PS5 had about a full year.

If the demand were really that unprecedented, then Sony would have made a like-for-like comparison instead of heavily skewing things in favor of the PS5. But the thing is that the PS5 has fallen behind the PS4 pretty much everywhere, so it isn't easy to come up with comparisons that favor the PS5.

I think the numbers are most BS, because Sony can choose where to put their shipments. So they sent it to China instead of European countries like Germany or Spain.

Just send a million consoles to China, I am sure it will get sold somehow, whether from Chinese or foreign buyers.

This is the kind of thread that can give birth to the next "globally in the US" meme. Too bad that "week 72 sell-through after global launch" doesn't have the same ring to it.