PS5 Year 1 Sales Compared: Ahead Of Wii U, Behind PS4, And More
As part of Sony's earnings announcement this week, the company revealed that the PlayStation 5 has surpassed 17 million units shipped since launch in November 2020. That's a very big number, but how does it compare to its rival, Xbox, its predecessor, and other platforms across the industry? Let's have a look.
The PlayStation 5's 17.3 million units shipped since launch is no doubt a big number and an impressive result, but sales are actually slower than that of the PlayStation 4 during its equivalent launch period. Over a similar period of time, the PS4 was able to sell 20.2 million units, so the PS5 is actually just under 3 million short of matching that pace. There is a good reason for this, of course, as the ongoing global pandemic has disrupted supply chains around the world.
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Sony management has said it is selling every PS5 it can make (and anyone who had tried to buy one knows this, of course), so demand is outstripping supply. For what it's worth, these same issues are affecting Xbox and Nintendo (along with others inside the technology space and out). The supply issues are so severe that Sony actually announced a downward revision for its PS5 sales target for the current quarter. Sony previously believed the PS5 would reach 22.6 million units by March 2022, but that number has been downgraded to 19.3 million.
Microsoft no longer releases official sales numbers, but an estimate from Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad puts Xbox Series X|S sales at
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