Sony has shipped a dizzying 67.5 million PlayStation 4 consoles as of 30th September, the manufacturer’s latest financial results reveal. The organisation moved an impressive 4.2 million units in the quarter spanning 1st July to 30th September, meaning that it’s once again up year-over-year. That has prompted the platform holder to increase the console's annual forecast to 19 million, meaning that it expects the system to have shipped somewhere in the region of 79 million units by 31st March.
To put this into perspective, it took the PlayStation 3 around seven years to ship 80 million units, and the PS4 is on track to do the same in just over four. This is all without the system reaching that all-important $199 price tag – although it looks like it’s about to on Black Friday in the United States.
But it’s not just the hardware that’s performing well: gaming revenue’s up 35.4 per cent year-over-year in Q2 2017, which the platform holder attributes to an increase in software sales through the PlayStation Store – it’s clear that more and more people are purchasing games digitally these days, which is helping to bloat the manufacturer’s bank balance.
[source sony.net]
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Impressive results. 4.2 million units shipped in a slow quarter is really amazing for a console that's nearly four years old.
The fact it's still up year over year is the most impressive part. The PS4 has just never slowed down since it launched.
How does it keep selling faster.
@johncalmc I'm not entirely sure actually. I'm particularly surprised by the Q2 result because it felt like this was quite a quiet summer for the PS4 really.
@johncalmc broken consoles being replaced, people upgrading to pro and disgruntled wii u owners moving to ps4. As well as late adopters of course.
Its a crazy number. Well done ps4.
@get2sammyb It was even more confusing in the early days when it was selling without any must-have exclusives, and even Sony were confused. There's loads of games now, so it at least makes sense on that front that it would sell better than before. But surely everyone is going to have one soon. It just keeps speeding up.
@themcnoisy Okay, well the Wii U owners makes up like four sales...
Hope it continues to sell.
If sales continue to be strong Sony won't be forced into pushing out the PS5.
Continue to build the library. I don't want to see the PS5 till 2020.
Nice. ☺️ Lets keep this train rolling.
Impressive numbers. I like the high aim they got. Adapting the expectations to the obvious demand. Pretty confident.
This is impressive and what this means is that, with 19 million more PS4s to be sold in the next year it is another 19 million GTAV sales as well.
Sony continues to dominate the home console market, I see. Good for them.
Lol I remember some bigwigs in industry predicting death of consoles like Pachter. Just shows great products are loved by great people like gamers! And gamers always have the final voice in voting with our pockets. Oh and great developers will always produce great games. 100million PS4's sold is just around the corner! Maybe 2018/19.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-09-08-the-end-of-the-console-era-as-we-know-it
Target: ps2 sales number
Yeah, The PS5 aint coming anytime soon I dont think
Not far behind the 3DS
I'm a Nintendo fan but PS4, as PS2 before, is an amazing console with an outstanding library of games!
So it really deserves the success. Also consoles are dead.
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