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PS5 Top 11 "Active Console Volume" Nations As Of March 2022 + PC Game Sales + More

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Source: https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/irday/pdf/2022/GNS_E.pdf

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PS5 Top Active Console Volume Countries (Known Units Sold Through March 2022)
1. US (~7M)
2. UK (~1.7M)
3. Japan (1.5M)
4. Germany
5. France
6. China (670K)
7. Canada
8. Australia
9. Italy
10. Spain
11. Saudi Arabia

PS4 Top Active Console Volume Countries (Known Units Sold Through March 2022)
1. US (~35M)
2. Japan (9.6M)
3. Germany (8.2M 2020)
4. UK (7.7M 2021)
5. France (6.3M 2020)
6. Italy (3.8M 2020)
7. Spain (3.9M 2020)
8. Brazil
9. Canada (+3.1M 2020)
10. Australia
11. China

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Horizon Zero Dawn: 2,398,000
God Of War: 971,000
Days Gone: 852,000
 
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Himura Kenshin said:
China takes a massive jump going from No. 11 PS4 top seller to No. 6 PS5 top seller.
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PS4 released in China 17 months after launch (70 weeks after global launch) versus PS5 that it only took 7 months (21 weeks), this is a huge reason for the difference between PS4 and PS5 sales and spending
 
I expected a bit more from Days Gone due to the zombie game market on PC

God of War very good

SteamSpy - owners 2kk~5kk heh
 
Jim Ryan confirmed in the lifestream that a factor in the huge jump in PC revenue will be related to GaaS , it seems GaaS+late PS4/5 ports of non-GaaS games will be Sony PC strategy going forward
 
awng782 said:
I'm not sure "Active Console Volume Ranking" equals sales, but I suppose they correlate quite strongly.
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Going by the known PS4 LTD's only Spain and Italy are out of order but 2021 could reverse that.

In general, it should correlate near 1:1 with total sales. PS5 will be exactly 1:1 at this point in its life given it still sells out everywhere
 
Added a couple more things such as store revenue splits and PS Plus performance
 
reksveks said:
Think Switch was 1m after a year (can only find articles in Jan 21 talking about one million sales after a Dec 19 launch)
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The Chinese Tencent Switch reached 1M shipped in China by the end of 2020, about a year after its Dec 2019 launch. If you include imports, the Switch reached 4M sold in China by the end of 2020.
 
That Jump from $80M to $300M on PC , Unless Bungie is in this equation , I wonder what they have this Fiscal Year for PC beside Uncharted 4

Looks Like Sony Bet on Saudi Arabia Market started to show its results , 11th on PS5 Top Selling List

mbolibombo said:
A bit dissapointed in the PC sales,
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While They are Nice Results , but Yea it feels like those results don't give the impression that People are rushing to buy Sony Games on PC like some people imagined so numbers arent that Gigantic , but Overall Nice Results and I think Sony is satisfied with it
 
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Welfare said:
Going by the known PS4 LTD's only Spain and Italy are out of order but 2021 could reverse that.

In general, it should correlate near 1:1 with total sales. PS5 will be exactly 1:1 at this point in its life given it still sells out everywhere
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For PS5, sure. But they are comparing it up against "active console volume ranking as of March 2022" for PS4. Active PS4s in 2022 isn't going to have a clean correlation with sales when many of those PS4s were sold as many as 8 years ago.
 
Ryuichi Naruhodo said:
While They are Nice Results , but Yea it feels like those results don't give the impression that People are rushing to buy Sony Games on PC like some people imagined so numbers arent that Gigantic , but Overall Nice Results and I think Sony is satisfied with it
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Yeah, I guess one shouldnt expect games that's widely availible for ~20$ on PS to be massive sellers @50$ on another platform which probably has quite a bit of overlap with PS.
 
Jorge said:
They are not counting what Bungie brings for this fiscal year that's why their 300 pc revenue forecast is surprising.
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If Destiny2 is not part of the 300 then maybe they plan to bring more recent ps5/4 games to pc.
They are no longer wait 3 or 4 years to port games but 1 year or even 6 month?
Eventualy Horizon2 could be available on pc for Holiday 22.
 
mbolibombo said:
A bit dissapointed in the PC sales, however 300M PC games forecast... seems high.

They must be more agressive with many releases + earlier releases for that to happen.

Spidey, Bloodborne coming?
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Ryuichi Naruhodo said:
That Jump from $80M to $300M on PC , Unless Bungie is in this equation , I wonder what they have this Fiscal Year for PC beside Uncharted 4

Looks Like Sony Bet on Saudi Arabia Market started to show its results , 11th on PS5 Top Selling List



While They are Nice Results , but Yea it feels like those results don't give the impression that People are rushing to buy Sony Games on PC like some people imagined so numbers arent that Gigantic , but Overall Nice Results and I think Sony is satisfied with it
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Expected tbh. These games are 2-4 year old with no past presence on PC sold at $50 with no discount more than 50% especially for GoW which hasn't been discounted so far at all. Also shows you how vastly different are PC and PS audiences and that they don't overlap a lot.

Late ports will always have lower potential at that price no matter how prestigious a title or a series is on console. If you want much faster sales than launch close to day 1 or day 1.
 
Blue Monty said:
PS4 released in China 17 months after launch (70 weeks after global launch) versus PS5 that it only took 7 months (21 weeks), this is a huge reason for the difference between PS4 and PS5 sales and spending
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After global launch and not China launch, didn't catch that at first. Yeah, that's quite misleading. PS4 is launch sales only. PS5 is one year worth of sales.

But the country ranking is valid to show that China got a lot more important and grew nevertheless. Some other countries had to live with less stock tho.
 
Welfare said:
Going by the known PS4 LTD's only Spain and Italy are out of order but 2021 could reverse that.

In general, it should correlate near 1:1 with total sales. PS5 will be exactly 1:1 at this point in its life given it still sells out everywhere
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I believe it's a metric like active installbase.
So sold units, that are actually used.

Inventory and scalper stock could make a slight difference depending on the region.
Won't be a huge difference for PS5, but PS4 in Brazil is probably benefiting a lot using that metric compared to sales. All those imported consoles being used increase your ranking. That could also benefit China for PS5 maybe?

Sony should give and asterisk on the definition.
 
cw_sasuke said:
There is a reason why Xbox consoles have always been sold for ridiculous cheap around here. The PlayStation brand is massive over here.
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True. Also a reason why I’m thinking about getting the Series S here because it is so cheap.
 
awng782 said:
I'm not sure "Active Console Volume Ranking" equals sales, but I suppose they correlate quite strongly.
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I think it's the best way to measure it, especially when you have a lot of people in secondary markets (China, KSA, Brasil...) massively importing from other countries/regions. With pure sales data, You won't see that other markets have big install base.
 
Tokuiten said:
China takes a massive jump going from No. 11 PS4 top seller to No. 6 PS5 top seller.
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Do we have any stats on China game sales? I am thinking what games are they playing?

If China is picking up a greater share of the volume then with supply constraints that will mean quite a significant shift from Europe to China for the consoles active player base at least in the medium term.
 
The unprecedented Demand graph, with PS4 vs ps5 data comparison in US retail, is a good statistics manipulation illustration.
With no contextual explaination but only raw data to fit a narrative.
80k units sell in 82 min (1000/min) vs 80k units in 9 days (6/min).
Then people see this and start wandering, imagine if there was no shortage, the ps5 would be skyrocketing to a level never reached before blablabla
 
OK I am trying to get my head around this.

LTD Store Transactions Attach - This is digital purchases in the store; how are Sony saying that PS4 did not grow from 2015 to 2022 for digital transactions?
LTD Game Transactions Attach - This is actually including physical games. So what Sony are saying is that amongst active PS4 players only 50% bought anything in 21/22.

The second number highlights why Sony are moving to GaaS but also highlights that market is likely still reliant on whales. The first number seems super suspect, I actually don't believe it and "Platform is Defined by target content type or transaction device type" must surely be doing a lot of work here.

If these numbers are accurate then frankly they are not very good. It suggests that as the PS4 userbase grew, most people playing games actively are not buying anything but Playstation Plus.
 

Another one also the first PS5 game to be ported to PC also if it releases soon will be the first one it had only took sub 2 years
 
I've updated the OP to reflect Active Console Volume but it should still heavily correlate to the actual ranking for total sales.
 
Baobab said:
Japan is in third place.......
what games are being played in japan?
The games seem to not have really been bought there.
Is most of the PS5 market in japan Free to play?
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Maybe it's an Apex Legends machine
 
Baobab said:
Japan is in third place.......
what games are being played in japan?
The games seem to not have really been bought there.
Is most of the PS5 market in japan Free to play?
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It has more to do with the lack of competition and how big the Japanese console market is, most individual European countries are too small to compete even with a declining (for Sony) Japan. The fact that the UK has already surpassed Japan is historic Japan was always just behind the USA when it comes to market share and once Germany gets more stock it should also surpass Japan, Germany was bigger for Sony than UK during PS4 generation but they seem to have focused more in the UK with PS5 probably due to stronger competition from Xbox in the Uk than in Germany.
 
Welfare said:
Maybe it's an Apex Legends machine
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True ^_^
this data kind of puts in context the media create threads and mystery of the PS5 games sold.
PS5 in japan are definitely being used but for Apex, Genshin, netflix....and then some games while waiting for the next Monster Hunter or Final Fantasy.
 
So Brazil is the 8th PS4 market but out of top 10 at the beginning of the PS5 generation. No surprise given the prices and lack of stock. I remember when Phil Spencer came to the Brasil Game Show he gave an interview in which, if my memory serves me right, we were among the 5 biggest Xbox markets, or entering the top 5. With the Series S, Game Pass and Xcloud it's likely that Xbox will lead here.
 
That "Average Cumulative Spend Per Active Device" thing seems weird. Maybe a matter of different things being counted at different times? I'm not sure why else early PS5 users would be spending three times as much money as early PS4 owners. Maybe recent PS4 purchases being counted for PS5 since they just report PS4+PS5 software numbers, unlike the situation with PS4 not being able to play PS3 games? Still, I wouldn't expect that to make a 3x difference. Maybe that plus increased high dollar PSN subscriptions would do the trick, though.
 
JoshuaJSlone said:
That "Average Cumulative Spend Per Active Device" thing seems weird. Maybe a matter of different things being counted at different times? I'm not sure why else early PS5 users would be spending three times as much money as early PS4 owners. Maybe recent PS4 purchases being counted for PS5 since they just report PS4+PS5 software numbers, unlike the situation with PS4 not being able to play PS3 games? Still, I wouldn't expect that to make a 3x difference. Maybe that plus increased high dollar PSN subscriptions would do the trick, though.
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Consumers had a lot more time with the console in PS5 case than PS4 , this means they also had a lot more time to spend money. Of course the rise of MTX/GaaS should help especially in the chinese market
 
Kirby said:
A lot of interesting data. PC numbers! They need to release more games to hit that 300M sales prediction.
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They might think that he Bungie acquisition will go throuh in this FY already and some of the Destiny PC revenue will be recognized.

Or maybe the port TLOUS to PC alongside the second remaster edition. Returnal and Uncharted Lost Legacy won't be enough at all to reach that number.
 
SoonyXboneUhh said:
They might think that he Bungie acquisition will go throuh in this FY already and some of the Destiny PC revenue will be recognized.

Or maybe the port TLOUS to PC alongside the second remaster edition. Returnal and Uncharted Lost Legacy won't be enough at all to reach that number.
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Jim already said they are not counting destiny revenue and I agree, Uncharted, Factions and the unknown game will not get them close to the numbers they want so either there are more ports planned or they are massively overestimating what Factions will do on PC.
 
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