Sony has confirmed via its Q2 results for fiscal year 2024 that it's now shipped 65.5 million PS5 consoles, with a total of 3.8 million systems sold within the quarter itself. The company sold 1.1 million fewer PS5 boxes this quarter compared to the same one for the previous fiscal year, but sales of games are on the rise. 77.7 million copies of PS5 titles were sold during Q2, of which 5.3 million were first-party efforts. Overall, it's an increase of 10.1 million units compared to Q2 2023.
Elsewhere, Sony's monthly active PSN users tracker has remained steady at 116 million, which is the exact same as last quarter. Compared to this time last year, though, the number's up by nine million.
Interestingly, the ratio split of digital and physical purchases on PS5 has actually dropped slightly. It's still heavily in favour of digital, with 70 per cent of users opting for the disc-free option. However, that's the lowest the state has been for almost a year. Sony has stopped reporting how many PS Plus subscribers it has, so the stat doesn't appear in this report.
The latest PS5 shipping count means the current-gen console remains in line with PS4 sales tracking, sitting just below the older system by 2.2 million units. When the PS4 was in the second quarter of its fifth fiscal year, it had sold 67.7 million consoles. The PS5 is only just behind that, and history has revealed the system always catches up to PS4 in Q1. With the PS5 Pro now on the market, we'll be able to see how much of an impact its launch period has on total sales in the next quarterly report.
[source sony.com]
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Wait until GTA6 releases 😁
...and we are still playing PS4 games...
@Fishnpeas
Don't worry. You'll drown in PS5 games once the PS6 is out. This gen is going to last much longer than the previous one.
Long live King Sony and the global PlayStation empire.
It’s kinda funny that people made such a big deal out of how much of a bomb Concord was but in the quarter it released their operating Income(profit) rose 184% from ¥48.9T to ¥138.85T.
It kind of highlights why companies are willing to take these risks when losses can be absorbed so easily but if they get it right and you make a $1B a year then that will actually have a material impact on your accounts within a couple of years.
without major price cuts, a pandemic, a resurgent and vocal PC and Nintendo market and with Xbox trying to disrupt the industry. It is very impressive. Oh and the longer cross gen period.
@Fishnpeas you should consider buying a PS5.
Not bad considering many of us couldn’t get a PS5 the first two years without jumping through hoops. I expect the generation to last longer. When the industry finally mostly supports the current generation of consoles with system sellers then we can expect overall PS5 sells to be high.
PS has the potential to grow even more due to east Asia. Lastly nice to see Sonys hardware doing well as they are a hardware company mostly at the end of the day.
Surely some of this bump is due to PSN requirement on PC combined with more PC releases. (Neither of which I have a problem with)
These numbers are crazy when you consider the price and the current economic situation.
and GTA 6 is still to come.
The PS5 is far from being a failure or even dead as some fanboys on the internet would like to believe.
Expected. If someone wants a console that’s not underpowered with a gimmick , what else is there? $ony has been cruise controlling for years now.
This is a MUCH healthier Financial report from PlayStation e.g.
2.2 million behind PS4? That's falling further behind then? And the PS4 rocketed after that....
@KawakiisaFraud No one is saying that the PS5 is dead or a failure.
They are saying that the PS5 is disappointing given how many of its games are from one to two console generations ago. I agree with one of the posters above: there has never been a better time to buy a PS5 because based on current trends it'll probably reach its high point about three years into the lifespan of the PS6.
@riceNpea Had one since day 1.
It would be nice to hwve some games to go along with it.
Back in the last gen it was my XBone gathering dust, it's now the PS5s turn, which is the first since PlayStation became a thing.
@nomither6 cruise controlling what exactly? If compared to Xbox, for sure, but the underpowered gimmick called Switch is in a whole other dimension in terms of hardware sales, game sales and legs.
The biggest drop unfortunately is in Europe where the PS5 is down 5 million units to the PS4.
They might be able to make it back up if they wished to.
Well, nod bad. 😊
I enjoy my PS5 Fat machine with 3rd party kids games.
@mazzel i don’t compare consoles to handhelds. nintendo has always lead the market in handhelds.
virtually every switch owner has either a ps5/xbox
@mazzel The Nintendo Switch sells less software than Playstation every quarter.
For this Quarter Nintendo reported 39.64m units of software. Sony just reported 77.7M.
With ps5 pro ps5 is gonna sell even more.word up son
Your byline makes it seem like they have sold 77.5 million games total, like the headline. Would suggest clarifying!
@LiamCroft be careful when you compare shipments and actual sales. Generally the difference between shipments and sales is marginal (you ship as you sell, so in any given year those are similar). But at launch (PS5 Pro), you will ship much more than you sell cause you need to build stocks and your pipeline. This usually accounts for about 20% of yearly sales. It probably doesn't fundamentally change the picture (especially since I'm not sure if you are indeed using sales for PS4 or if it is also shipment), but if PS5 is shipment and PS4 is sales, it means PS5 is likely slightly behind. Cheers
@themightyant it probably contributed, but 9MM seems like a lot compared to the sales number for those PC games.
@ChrisDeku you are completely right on that one!
Unfortunately, Sony does not split the PS4 and PS5 software sales in their statistics. Would be interesting to see the difference, since I believe they still have strong PS4 software sales.
@nomither6 I do have numbers on that actually, and while it is true a lot do own PS/XB + Switch, "virtually every switch owners" is a huge overstatement ^^ And also there is actually a good number of people that will choose a switch or a PS... us hardcore gamers on pushsquare who buy everything are not representative of your average gamer ^^
@Fishnpeas Funny because the majority of new games i've played this year are current gen/PC only.
PS5 is doing very well, but I do think that is more because of the brand established by earlier generations of Sony than anything the current leadership has brought to the table.
That game total is strange...I've bought over 100 myself. A console these days must really be a Fortnite/FIFA box for the vast majority.
Edit misread, thought the games was total not Q2 😅
Most of these "PS5" games sold are basically cross gen games. There are many games out there that don't take full advantage of the system, a part from the Sony exclusives ect...
Kool good for sony 👌
So based on that math, how many games would the average PS5 owner have? 65.5 million consoles sold, 77.7 million games. I’m not great at math, but since people typically don’t think there’s many games worth buying on PS5, my brother included, it’d be interesting to see.
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