PS5 has already distributed 13.4 million consoles: PlayStation achieves the best summer in its history

This is a checklist of computer game for the PlayStation 4 video clip game console that have sold or delivered a minimum of one million duplicates.

PlayStation 5 continues to sell at a good pace despite all replenishment problems in stores, at least as to follow a path not very different from the one achieved by PS4 in the market in its first year. Thus, Sony announced during the presentation of its latest fiscal results, 13.4 million consoles have already been distributed as of September 30. A success

This assumes that, in the last quarter, the Japanese firm has managed to sell 3.3 million PS5, feking the PS4 data in its first summer in stores. As a reference, PlayStation 4 had sold by these dates 13.8 million consoles. It is not clear if for the PS5 Christmas campaign you will have the necessary boost to shorten the distances and be able to beat the sales record of its predecessor.

The manufacturer s financial report also leaves good data for PlayStation 4. In this regard, 200,000 devices were sold during Summer, raising the total sales of the eighth generation system to 116 million units.

76.4 million games sold

Leaving back sales of consoles and going to the territory of the Software, between July and September 76.4 million games of PS5 and PS4 were purchased, one lower than that registered in the same period of 2020 : 81.8 Millions of games. In this descent it has a lot to see the performance of the exclusive developments, with sales of 7.6 million PlayStation Studios games sold against the 12.8 registered the previous summer - agreed with the premiere of Ghost of Tsushima. Finally, the digital format copied 62% of the total sales of video game of the platform.

The number of PlayStation Plus subscribers follow up on the summer months in the Territory Services, the Japanese multinational places the total number of active users at PlayStation Network, with 47.2 million subscribers of PS Plus. This data represents an important improvement against the last known, in August, of 46.3 million users, and to the achievement a year ago, 45.9 million.

Best summer of the history in income

All figures in hardware, software, services and peripherals allow PLAYSTATION to obtain the best summer in its history as far as income is concerned. The Division generated 645,500 million yen -4,892 million euros to current change -, registering a year-on-year growth of 27%. For its part, operating income fell by 22%, standing at 82,700 million yen (630 million euros).

To continue improving these data, it is important that you finish stock problems for consoles, something that seems will not be short-term as AMD. However, it is also about to see the impact on the company s account of the new opening policy of the division to launch its exclusive PC, which left us a few days ago the confirmation of the premiere of God of War on PC via Steam and Epic Games Store.