Ever since its launch back in late 2020, the PlayStation 5 has seen a strong level of support – only having been hampered by stock issues back during its first few years. 5 years on and the PS5 is seemingly stable enough to consider itself current-gen – with its monthly active users finally surpassing that of the PS4 for the first time.

As part of the company’s latest business segment meeting, Sony offered updated stats on many of its PlayStation services from hardware revenue, to software and more. Interestingly, for the first time since the console’s launch in 2020, the PlayStation 5 has now surpassed the PS4 for monthly active users.

Last year, the console maker confirmed that across its 97 million MAUs, 50% were on PlayStation 5 while the other half were on PS4. As of the 31st of March 2025 however, the PS5 has finally taken over.

While no exact figures were shared, based on the charts released, it seems around 2/3rds of the 124 million active PlayStation users are on PS5 now – with SIE President and CEO Hideaki Nishino claiming “The PlayStation 5 offers the best way for players to experience our content, and as such, its player base has continued to grow.”

With a solid majority of titles being released still supporting last-gen consoles, it is perhaps somewhat less important than in previous years for Sony to shift all of its users over to the latest system. Still, it is interesting to see the PS5 finally beat out the PS4 – right as Sony is starting to talk about a potential PlayStation 6.

KitGuru says: What do you think of the PlayStation 5? Do you feel as though we are now solidly within the 9th gen? How many monthly PS5 users do you expect to see by the time the PS6 rolls around? Let us know down below.

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