Sony Interactive Entertainment officially ended shipment of PS4 and PS4 Pro consoles in Japan as of last year.
The official Japanese PlayStation website was updated on March 28, 2024, with information regarding the availability of it’s previous-gen consoles. Sony Interactive Entertainment ended shipment of both the PS4 and PS4 Pro in Japan as of last year. This suggests that worldwide shipments of the consoles has also ended.
It’s not surprising to see that Sony Interactive Entertainment halted production of PS4 and PS4 Pro units by March 28, 2024, over 3 years since the launch of its current-gen console, the PS5. Given how the company was preparing to launch the PS5 Pro on November 7, 2024, it made sense to divert production and logistic efforts towards both PS5 and PS5 Pro units.
In related news, Mat Piscatella, Executive Director and Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana (NPD), recently shared that, through each console’s first 50 months in the US market, PS5 lifetime unit sales are 7% ahead of PS4’s pace. According to him, Sony’s current-gen console now ranks third in launch aligned hardware dollar sales in U.S. history, trailing only Switch and Xbox 360. The platform currently ranks 11th in lifetime unit sales.
The PS4 was announced in February, 2013, as the successor to the PlayStation 3. It was released on November 15, 2013, in North America, followed by launches in Europe, South America, and Australia on November 29, 2013, and in Japan on February 22, 2014. As an eighth-generation console, it competed with Microsoft’s Xbox One and Nintendo’s Wii U and Switch.
Unlike its predecessor, which utilized the more complex Cell architecture, the PS4 is built on an AMD APU using the x86-64 architecture, capable of reaching a theoretical peak of 1.84 teraflops. AMD described it as the most powerful APU it had developed at the time. The console focuses heavily on social features and connectivity with other devices, offering functionalities such as Remote Play and “Share Play.
