So hear me out. Some will say Sony stopped production of PS4 yet back in 2024 at best. Well, it might be similar to Xbox One situation, which was quietly discontinued at the end of 2020, but Microsoft announced it only in January 2022. But for all previous PlayStations there was an official discontinuation announcement, even if de facto it happened like a year prior. And for PS4 there still hasn't been any worldwide statements (except a small footnote only for Japan), so we can speculate at least about de jure situation.
Here's a simple table with dates of release and announcements of worldwide discontinuation taken from public sources sorted by day difference. As you can see, today, on September 18 (which of course is not a final or confirmed date), PS4 surpassed PS2. Interestingly, for PS1-PS3 the time length of supposed production also correlates with number of total sales. Also Sony stopped updating sales number for PS4 in 2022, so 117 million number is not final (of course it still won't beat PS2).
| Console |
Release |
Discontinued |
Days diff |
Years diff |
Sales |
| Sony PlayStation 4 |
15.11.2013 |
18.09.2026 |
4690 |
12,8 |
117.2 m |
| Sony PlayStation 2 |
04.03.2000 |
04.01.2013 |
4689 |
12,8 |
160 m |
| Sony PlayStation |
03.12.1994 |
23.03.2006 |
4128 |
11,3 |
102.49 m |
| Sony PlayStation 3 |
11.11.2006 |
29.05.2017 |
3852 |
10,5 |
87.4 m |