PS5 exceeds 59 million units and Helldivers II surpasses PlayStation Studios record with 12 million copies

Sony has presented the financial results of the fourth and last quarter of the fiscal year and, as usual, has updated the number of PlayStation 5 units sold, which as of March 31, 2024, accumulated 59.3 million consoles. The Japanese company has also reported for the first time the sales of Helldivers II, which since its launch last February and until May 5 has added 12 million units shipped between PS5 and PC.

During the quarter, 4.5 million PS5s were sold, a figure that compares with 6.5 million in the same period of the previous year. Despite this year-on-year decline, Sony closed the fiscal year placing 20.8 million consoles, 1.7 million more than the previous year. In its best year PS4 reached 20 million. The company had the forecast of closing the year selling 25 million PS5s, a figure never before reached by a PlayStation and which ended up revising downwards to 21 million, a figure that it has not matched either.

For the current fiscal year, Sony’s forecast is that PS5 will sell 18 million units.

Regarding software, between PS4 and PS5 they have managed to sell 286.4 million games throughout the fiscal year, a year-on-year increase of 8%. This rise has been possible thanks to the titles third-partysince the sale of the first-party has fallen from 43.5 million to 39.7 million. Regarding PlayStation Network, it has 118 million active monthly users, ten million more than a year ago.

We move on to Helldivers 2, a game as a service that has managed to sell 12 million units in 12 weeks, a figure that has “far exceeded Sony’s expectations.” The title developed by Arrowhead Game Studios becomes the biggest launch in the history of PlayStation Studios ahead of God of War Ragnarok, which last year managed to sell 11 million copies in the same period of time. Keep in mind that the latest adventure of Kratos and Atreus is available on PS5 and PS, while the defenders of freedom, peace and democracy are distributed between PS5 and PC.

The PlayStation business closed the fiscal year with revenues of 25.26 billion euros, 17% more than a year ago. Sony admits that this result is due to the increase in sales of the titles third-party, including additional content, and the impact of exchange rates. The company has also recognized the performance of Helldivers II, a game without which the PlayStation division would have possibly recorded a very different quarter.