Sony Has Moved 74.9 Million PlayStation 5 Consoles
Supply: Sony / PlayStation 5
In keeping with latest gross sales numbers, Sony isn’t having an issue transferring PlayStation 5 consoles.
Throughout its earnings launch, Sony introduced that it had its greatest vacation season but with PlayStation 5 gross sales, transferring 9.5 million consoles over the past three months (2024 Q3), promoting 1.3 million greater than it offered in the identical quarter the earlier 12 months, elevating all-time PS5 gross sales to 74.9 million.
The most recent addition to the PS5 console household, the PS5 Professional, might have helped increase these numbers. Sony didn’t present gross sales numbers for that console.
With that file quarter within the books, the PS5 is 1.5 million items behind the PS4 throughout its gross sales lifecycle. Sony additionally posted a revenue of 469.3 billion yen ($3.05 billion), which was larger than anticipated.
Sport gross sales have been additionally up, reaching 95.9 million items offered in Q3 2024 in comparison with 89.7 million within the earlier quarter regardless of a decline in first-party gross sales.
Sony’s recreation software program income rose to 784 billion yen ($5.1 billion) in Q3 2023, in comparison with 733 billion yen in Q3 2023.
The corporate additionally acknowledged the success of Astro Bot, which took the online game award season by storm, and Helldivers 2, noting it intends to develop its dwell service choices regardless of canceling a number of initiatives and Harmony flopping earlier than it even hit cabinets.
Sony could be very optimistic concerning the future. Dying Stranding 2: On The Seashore, Ghost of Yotei, and allegedly Grand Theft Auto 6 will all come in 2025, which might assist extra consoles fly off cabinets.
Whereas Sony stories console gross sales, it hasn’t been the identical for Xbox. Though Xbox’s {hardware} gross sales have taken successful and are down 29% since switching the corporate mannequin, Sport Go has skilled file progress.
