PS5 Pro sales ‘have fallen behind PS4 Pro in the US’

The $700 console upgrade reportedly enjoyed a strong start at launch

US PlayStation 5 Pro sales have fallen behind PlayStation 4 Pro’s sales performance during its first months of sale.

That’s according to data from market research firm Circana, shared by analyst Mat Piscatella. However, it’s worth noting that PlayStation 5 Pro retails for significantly more than PS4 Pro did ($700 vs $400), and Circana’s reporting period is also one week less.

In November, Piscatella claimed that PS5 Pro had enjoyed “a solid start,” with unit sales “in the same ballpark as PS4 Pro’s launch”.

PlayStation 5 Pro was released on November 7 for $700/£800. Over 50 games subsequently received updates with graphical upgrades and other performance improvements.

Sony has not released official PS5 Pro sales figures. However, its latest earnings results included Pro sales for the first time, and showed that launch-aligned, PlayStation 5 is now just 1.5 million units behind PlayStation 4 during the same period of its lifecycle (75m vs 76.5m).

Commenting on its PlayStation business during a web call, the company highlighted the success of Astro Bot and Helldivers 2, which it said signified its intention to expand in the areas of family games and live service titles.

Looking ahead, Death Stranding 2 and Ghost of Yotei will release this year, alongside significant third-party titles like Monster Hunter Wilds and Grand Theft Auto 6.

Sony said it had “high expectations” for the titles releasing in its next fiscal year, which runs from April 1, and that it’s planning to release more family games in the future, following the success of Astro Bot.

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x3nu says:
22nd February 2025 at 2:03 pm
That was expected. I called it when the Pro specs leaked, because the Pro is barely an upgrade over base PS5 and bottlenecked by its CPU. PS4 Pro was a much more significant upgrade last generation – and it was much cheaper as well.
All in all it’s safe to say that PS5 Pro was a mistake. It’s way too expensive for what it offers and the average gamer struggles to see differences to base PS5. However, probably the worst about PS5 Pro is, that it diminishes the next generational leap. With every new console generation, the difference to its previous generation became smaller. In recent years PC hardware kinda stagnated too (see RTX50, RX9070, Arc B, Ryzen 9000, Intel Core Ultra). All while prices skyrocketed. Launching a PS5 Pro makes the leap to PS6 even less impactful.
PS6 and Xbox Xero will feel more like actual Pro consoles for this generation. I’m very confident in this prediction. If nextgen would be a more meaningful upgrade, consoles would cost well over $1000 and that’s an absolute no-go for console manufacturers. There’s no way around a disappointing next generation.
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1. PatMalacky says:
  22nd February 2025 at 3:02 pm
  And here was me thinking having patreon would have playstation article comments free of your back handed trolling. Oh well consider this a paid patreon membership cancellation.
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  1. x3nu says:
    22nd February 2025 at 8:27 pm
    Sounds great to me! After all, you usually refer to toxicity when lacking arguments. This is just another example. You couldn’t think of anything valueable to add or counter, so you try to excel at reflection. I wish you all the best in the future.
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2. Ersatz says:
  22nd February 2025 at 3:03 pm
  Having the most powerful console on the market has its benefits and it is $300 more – the expectations probably weren’t that unit sales would be equal to the PS4 Pro. It’s hard to draw any conclusions from a few months of sales and a sentence as part of an analyst’s social media thread for one region.
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  1. x3nu says:
    22nd February 2025 at 8:37 pm
    When did it ever benefit? In fact, the opposite is true : Xbox was more powerful than PS2, but PS2 sold a lot better. PS3 was more powerful than Xbox 360 but it sold worse for years and devs focused on the more pooular platform so games performed better on the “weaker” Xbox 360. PS4 was better than Xbox One, but One X a lot better than PS4 Pro – it didn’t matter tho. This gen Xbox Series X has better hardware than PS5 – and, did Xbox won? No.
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    I guess you agree with the marginal generational leap ahead – otherwise it’s hard to explain why you try to argue while ignoring the main point of my statement. PS5 Pro will make PS6 even less exciting – incl. fans of the platform. The leap from PS5 to PS6 would be the smallest yet due to the points of my initial comment. PS5 Pro makes the leap even more insignificant.
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3. FresnoShae says:
  22nd February 2025 at 3:08 pm
  You seem like you’d be really fun at parties
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  1. PatMalacky says:
    22nd February 2025 at 5:38 pm
    He’s an Xbox troll. He’s a ghost in articles about xbox lately though especially when Phil has more multiplatform talk but he haunts most playstation articles where he does his negativity spin.
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