PS5 has reached another sales milestone in the UK – but it's not all good news

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Sony has reached a new sales milestone with the PS5, but it’s probably not what you’re expecting. Despite a continued struggle with stock shortages, Sony’s new-gen console has overtaken the Nintendo 64 for lifetime sales in the UK. PS5’s now closing the gap on the Game Boy Advance, though, it’s still lagging behind the PS4.

According to GamesIndustry.biz head Christopher Dring, the PS5 isn't the only console to overtake the lifetime sales of an older Nintendo console. The Xbox Series X|S overtook the GameCube “a few months back.” No exact sales figures were provided, though Dring believes that if console stock was more widely available “we'd be seeing some serious records breaking here.”

PS5 is now bigger than the N64 in the UK, and is closing in on the GBA. Xbox Series S/X overtook the GameCube a few months back. If only there was more stock, we'd be seeing some serious records breaking here. Long generation aheadApril 5, 2022

The last official figures we’ve received from Sony confirmed 17.3 million PS5 units had shipped worldwide, as of December 31, 2021. It’s a slower pace than the PS4, which sold three million more units in the same timeframe, though demand certainly isn’t lacking.

Thanks to the ongoing global semiconductor crisis, we’ve seen widespread hardware shortages across all areas of the industry following the Covid-19 pandemic, which has jointly affected Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and plenty more.

Back in February, Sony downgraded the PS5’s sales forecast during its third fiscal quarter earnings. At the time, Sony’s chief financial officer Hiroki Totoki provided a new forecast of two million PS5 units shipped between January and March 2022, a 1.3 million decrease from 2021. Totoki believed these shortages would