Sony’s PlayStation 4 six-year-old console has hit another milestone.

According to the new data provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment, we have bought more than a billion PlayStation 4 games. We have to add that they included the retail and the PlayStation Store sales only, so the used re-selling and the DLC were not included in the figure. The number isn’t entirely exact: 1.181 billion is more accurate, and we have bought 274 million games in 2019 alone. The result means that we have bought more games for the PlayStation 4 (worldwide, no less) than the PlayStation 3 (87.4 million console sales, 999.4 million software). Still, the PS4 is behind the grandfather PS2 – Sony’s previous console (which still holds the hardware sales record with its 155-million result…) has 1.53 billion game sales.

However, if we compared the PlayStation 4’s sales with the Nintendo Switch, the big N’s hybrid platform would win. The Switch, which will turn three in a month, is already at 52 million sales, and that already sounds more than what the Xbox One reached in six years (as Microsoft no longer publishes official sales figures, we can only rely on an estimate, which is 46 million…). We have already discussed the Switch’s performance earlier this week.

Let’s quickly do the math. The PlayStation 4 has 102.8 million console sales and 1.181 billion game sales. On average, that means we bought 11.48 games for one console, which isn’t weak (The PS3 has an 11.43 ratio, and the PS2 is sub-10. Then again, the PlayStation 2 had more games.)

The PlayStation 4 is getting two more exclusives before the PlayStation 5 launches: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II and Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima. They can give one last push for the PS4.

Source: DualShockers