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PS5 sold over 1m units during the first 12 Months in the DACH region

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reksveks

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490k PS5 until March 2021
556k PS5 between April and October 2021
1046K PS5 for the first year effectively

434k PS4 until March 2014

Source: https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/wirtschaft/playstation-5-verkaufszahlen-deutschland/

Don't really have much to compare it to afaik but if you do, please share.

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End of 2015
[PS4] 2,800,000 (68%)
[WIU] 690,000 (17%)
[XB1] 600,000 (15%)

2015 sales:
[PS4] 1,400,000 (+23%)
[XB1] 270,000 (+21%)
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As of - YTD - LTD
31.03.2014 - 434k - 434k
31.03.2015 - 1.516k - 1.950k
31.03.2016 - 1.572k - 3.522k
31.03.2017 - 1.677k - 5.199k
31.03.2018 - 1.484k - 6.683k
31.03.2019 - 1.122k - 7.805k
31.03.2020 - 939k - 8.744k
31.03.2021 - 401k - 9.145k
31.10.2021 - 85k - 9.230k
 
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Allandor

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That is really low. But the problem is that there are no PS5s to buy not that people don't want to buy it.
The PS4 was at least available after march 2014 here and there but the PS5 still isn't after over a year now. PS5 will fall way behind PS4 sales just due to the general production problems (so there is no more capacity to produce more). Will be interesting how long the console manufacturers want to deliver crossgen games because of the situation.
 
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mckmas8808

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Allandor said:
That is really low. But the problem is that there are no PS5s to buy not that people don't want to buy it.
The PS4 was at least available after march 2014 here and there but the PS5 still isn't after over a year now. PS5 will fall way behind PS4 sales just due to the general production problems (so there is no more capacity to produce more). Will be interesting how long the console manufacturers want to deliver crossgen games because of the situation.
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Is it that much lower than what the PS4 did?
 
ethomaz

ethomaz

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mckmas8808 said:
Is it that much lower than what the PS4 did?
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The ideia of low is weird... it is selling ahead PS4.

Allandor said:
That is really low. But the problem is that there are no PS5s to buy not that people don't want to buy it.
The PS4 was at least available after march 2014 here and there but the PS5 still isn't after over a year now. PS5 will fall way behind PS4 sales just due to the general production problems (so there is no more capacity to produce more). Will be interesting how long the console manufacturers want to deliver crossgen games because of the situation.
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How can it be low if it is ahead PS4?
 
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reksveks

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It was ahead of the ps4 but we should see soon if it still is.

Need to sell 900k between Oct and March??
 
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yurinka

yurinka

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Allandor said:
That is really low.
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The first few montths,until March 2021, PS5 performed better than PS4 (490k vs 434k). Meaning pretty likely that PS5 had the best launch ever for any console in gaming history.

Next (and most recent) PS5 numbers we have are until october 2021 (1046K) but we can' compare with PS4 numbers because the next PS4 numbers would be comparable to march 2022 (1950k) instead of october 2021. Pretty likely PS5 now is launch aligned behind PS4 there because at least in otther EU countries there wasn't a huge stock for the holydays period.
 
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Allandor

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ethomaz said:
The ideia of low is weird... it is selling ahead PS4.


How can it be low if it is ahead PS4?
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It isn't in this region. Also the demand is even higher than the ps4 demand was back than.
Problem is just (like in the whole world) that there are not enough PS5 consoles for sale.

yurinka said:
The first few montths,until March 2021, PS5 performed better than PS4 (490k vs 434k). Meaning pretty likely that PS5 had the best launch ever for any console in gaming history.

Next (and most recent) PS5 numbers we have are until october 2021 (1046K) but we can' compare with PS4 numbers because the next PS4 numbers would be comparable to march 2022 (1950k) instead of october 2021. Pretty likely PS5 now is launch aligned behind PS4 there because at least in otther EU countries there wasn't a huge stock for the holydays period.
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The big difference is in march 2014 you could buy a PS4 at the local retailer (Sony delivered many consoles at that time to the region). This is still not possible for the PS5 in the same time frame. Yes they initially delivered more PS5 consoles at launch than PS4 consoles at its launch, but that buffer has eaten up by the delivery problem. At around march 2014 Sony hat already increased the production line as the PS4 was a full success. I guess they want to do that with PS5 but it is just not possible to get the production lines and resources. The "felt demand" here for the PS5 is much higher than in the PS4 launch period. Problem is, many PS4 players want the new console but can't get it.
 
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