{"id":30982,"date":"2025-11-11T16:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaming.news\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30982"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:13:30","slug":"playstation-5-becomes-one-of-10-best-selling-game-consoles-ever-overtakes-xbox-360","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/gaming.news\/news\/2025-11-11\/playstation-5-becomes-one-of-10-best-selling-game-consoles-ever-overtakes-xbox-360\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 5 becomes one of 10 best-selling game consoles ever, overtakes Xbox 360"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"spgn__article__hero__news horizontal-wrapper vertical-wrapper\">\n\t\t<h1 class=\"spgn__article__hero__news__title wp-block-post-title\">PlayStation 5 becomes one of 10 best-selling game consoles ever, overtakes Xbox 360<\/h1>\n\n<figure class=\"spgn__article__hero__news__image --with-bg wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gaming.news\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80,width=1280,height=854,dpr=1,fit=crop,gravity=0.5x0.5\/https:\/\/s3.gaming.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PlayStation-5-.webp.jpg\" class=\"attachment-1280x854 size-1280x854\" alt=\"PlayStation 5 becomes one of 10 best-selling game consoles ever, overtakes Xbox 360\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1600px) 565px, (min-width: 1280px) calc(25vw + 172px), (min-width: 900px) 800px, (min-width: 380px) 91.8vw, calc(40vw + 178px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.gaming.news\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80,width=412,height=275,dpr=1,fit=crop,gravity=0.5x0.5\/https:\/\/s3.gaming.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PlayStation-5-.webp.jpg 412w, https:\/\/images.gaming.news\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80,width=768,height=512,dpr=1,fit=crop,gravity=0.5x0.5\/https:\/\/s3.gaming.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PlayStation-5-.webp.jpg 768w, https:\/\/images.gaming.news\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80,width=792,height=528,dpr=1,fit=crop,gravity=0.5x0.5\/https:\/\/s3.gaming.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PlayStation-5-.webp.jpg 792w, https:\/\/images.gaming.news\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80,width=1280,height=854,dpr=1,fit=crop,gravity=0.5x0.5\/https:\/\/s3.gaming.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PlayStation-5-.webp.jpg 1280w\" \/><figcaption>PlayStation 5. 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class=\"spgn__article__key-points__list__item\">\n\t\t<span>With 84.2 million units sold, PlayStation 5 overtook the Game Boy Advance with 81.51 million units sold and the Xbox 360 with 84 million.<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n\n\n\t<li class=\"spgn__article__key-points__list__item\">\n\t\t<span>The achievement happened in light of a recent PlayStation 5 price increase in the US.<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\t\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"spgn__article__content horizontal-wrapper vertical-wrapper narrow\">\n\t\t<div class=\"spgn__article__content__main spgn__content\">\n\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gaming.news\/codex\/playstation-5-ps-plus-in-2025-prices-performance-games-vs-xbox-pc\/\">PlayStation 5<\/a> took ninth place on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">list of best-selling game consoles<\/a> of all time on Nov. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Sony declared it hit the 80 million milestone in PlayStation 5 sales in August 2025, as was <a href=\"https:\/\/gaming.news\/news\/2025-08-07\/sony-hits-80m-milestone-in-playstation-5-sales-gaming-still-remains-its-highest-earning-division\/\">reported by Gaming.News<\/a>, the number of units sold has risen to 84.2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-facade__wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:56.20%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<img \n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"youtube-facade__img js-activate\" \n\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/RkC0l4iekYo\/hqdefault.jpg\" \n\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/RkC0l4iekYo\/hqdefault.jpg 658w, https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/RkC0l4iekYo\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" \n\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 659px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"display:block;\"\n\t\t\t\t\talt=\"PS5 Hardware Reveal 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