The George Foreman grill, sorry… PlayStation 3, has now been outsold by the PS5 in the US. Sony’s newest machine has achieved this feat in a fraction under five years on sale (PS5 launched 12th November 2020).
Respected Circana analyst Mat Piscatella shared the piece of trivia on Bluesky, noting that the sales-overtake had happened during September’s sales period.
“September 2025 US video game data fun fact – The PlayStation 5 has now surpassed the PlayStation 3 in lifetime installed base,” Piscatella wrote. “So that’s cool.”
He didn’t share numbers – Circana charges for that sort of thing – but did mention in replies that PS5 sales are also ahead of PS4 on “a time-aligned basis” in the US, and have been for “a very long time”. “PS5 is ahead of PS4 by 4.6 percent,” he wrote.