PSVR2 outselling Xbox Series and ROG Ally combined is the funny story here. I wonder how much the Portal sold.

Solid sales for VR hardware. Building a foundation for the future.

Thank you very much for posting it.

Europe is where Sony has the most potential growth for PS5 since they were lagging behind for 4 years compared to NA. Sales of the PS5 are slowing down in NA and Japan, so it's up to EU to keep up the numbers. If the PS5 is gonna reach PS4's lifetime sales it's mostly going to be up to EU from this point.

All these great PS5 deals are probably (sadly) a hint at those upcoming RAM price hikes.

The first period of years for the current-gen couldn't have been worse due to COVID already. And in 2026, with GTA6 finally on the horizon, we will probably see another adjustment in RRP.

What could have been an outstanding gen in terms of hardware sales, was facing many different factors ranging from a pandemic, tariffs and now a costly battle for RAM.

No wonder Sony's trying to sell as much PS5s as they can in this holiday season.

Yep. If we think theoretically that PS5 is essentially doing PS4 lifetime numbers, and if we put the standard console practices on it such as price cuts, and remove all the price hikes, alongside releasing PS6 in 2030 and thus prolonging the generation (because of the good sales), the console could reach highs like 200M.

If we instead of what actually happened, put some 100$ price cut in 2024, we could had peak year of let's say 25M (from 21.6M the previous year). The PS5 at this point is selling at 299$ for the digital one and 399$ for the disc based one. Then we could have some 22-23M year now, this year - 2025, and we could have another 22-23M next year with GTA IV. Then in 2027 it would drop to 18-19M. And normally it would drop once again to 14-15M in 2028 however another price cut happens then just like previous console generations, and PS5 drops to 199$ for the digital one, and 299$ for the disc based one. So the sales remain the same 18-19M for 2028.  Drop to 15M in 2029, and finally replacing it in 2030, with sales dropping to 10M. We can of course add some more help with another price cut in 2031 to 99$ for the digital and 199$ for the disc based keeping the drop slight and doing 8M in 2031, then continuing to sell until 2035, with sales of 6M, 4M, 2M and 1M.

• By the end of 2023 PS5 did 52M of sales
• With the 2024 in this other reality, PS5 do 25M with that 100$ price cut, reaching 77M by end of 2024
• By end of 2025 - another 23M breaking 100M.
• 22M more for 2026 because of GTA VI helping it maintain almost the same sales - 122M
• 18M more added with 2027 we have 140M
• We add 18M more because of the second price cut - 158M by end of 2028
• 15M more with 2029, it reaches 173M
• 10M more with 2030, the year PS6 finally releases, 183M
• with 2031, and the next price cut to 99$, PS5 doing another 8M, we reach 191M
• 2032 - 6M, 197M
• 2033 - 4M, 201M
• 2034 - 2M, 203M
• 2035 - 1M, 204M
• Those long legs are because of the ridiculous price in the end of 99$

PS5 is down during the black friday week but up significantly the week prior compared to 2024.

PS5 sales-

18th to 24th Nov 2024- 29000 units

25th nov to dec 1st 2024- 71000 units

2 week Total- 100,000 units

17th to 23rd Nov 2025- 41000 units

24th to 30th nov 2025- 65000 units

2 week total- 105,000 units.

So yeah, it may be down by 9% for black fiday week but up 5% with the prior week combined. 

Can't find hardware sales for Week 45/46. It's been a great November for PS5 again going by the last two weeks though. (This is Week 48 btw).

2024

Week 45 - 15.4k
Week 46 - 6.7k
Week 47 - 29.0k
Week 48 - 71.0k

2025

Week 47 - 41k
Week 48 - 65k

The promotions started a bit earlier this year so some of the BF sales migrated to the week before. For the weeks we do have, PS5 is up 6% YoY.

If these numbers are representative of Europe as a whole we could be in for a record breaking November in Europe for PS again.

Honestly I don’t know if a console could ever do 200M. The PS5 would have done 150 million max with price cuts like the PS2 had.
The switch could never have either 200M even if the console rarely got any deals, it could have done 180M max

PS5 will likely sell 3-4 times more than Switch 2 in Europe during November. It will be interesting to see if PS5 is so strong in Europe this year that it comfortably outsells Switch 2 in December as well, looks like it based on that huge November advantage.