Sony’s PlayStation 5 just had its best year on the market so far, resulting in over 38 million units sold.
Revealed in Sony’s latest work financial statements, PlayStation 5 sold 6.3 million units in the fourth quarter (Q4) of fiscal year 2022-23. That’s more than triple his sales in the previous year’s fourth quarter, when it sold just 2 million units.
PS5, which sold 32.1 million units at the end of the third quarter, has now reached 38.4 million units. Sony also sold about the same number of units in the 2022-23 fiscal year as before, with 19.1 million PS5 consoles sold, compared to 19.3 million units sold previously, ending the year. rice field.
However, Q4’s 6.3 million was not the strongest, as 7.1 million PS5 consoles were sold in Q3. However, this is a fairly regular trend, as the third quarter typically includes a holiday period during which video game hardware sales increase significantly.
The overall sales increase is related to the fact that the PS5 console is readily available now, as Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan said in January that inventory shortages were essentially over. There is a possibility that
The PS5 has run into significant production problems due to component shortages that have plagued the video game industry and others, forcing Sony to reassess its sales forecast for the 2021-22 fiscal year. .
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and UK news editor. He talks about witchers all day long.
