Sony reveals how many PlayStation 5 it has sold to date. It will be almost impossible to catch up with the PS4

sony has revealed that the PlayStation 5 has sold 65.5 million accumulated units. The data comes to us with the presentation of its latest financial resultswho add that the Japanese company sold 3.8 million consoles of new generation in the second fiscal quarter (Q2) that closed on September 30.

During the same period last year, Sony sold 4.9 million PlayStations. This means that sales have registered a drop of 22.5% year-on-year, which translates into another quarter with clear signs of slowdown. And all this occurs when the company continues to bet on its physical consoles.

PlayStation sales slow as PS5 Pro arrives on the scene

A few months ago we pointed out that Sony’s new generation consoles they were selling lessand that the possibility of reaching the record of units sold by the PlayStation 4 (117 million units), barring a miracle, would be impossible to match. Despite this, the firm has just launched the new PlayStation 5 Pro for 800 euros.

When we talk about PS5 units sold we include all versions of the console. So far, the original PS5 and also its “Slim” version. It is still early to know how the launch of the PS5 Pro will impact overall PlayStation sales. It should be noted that this generation is barely halfway through its life cycle.

In the case of Microsoft, Sony’s main rival in this market, we have not had official sales figures for its consoles for a long time. However, The Wall Street Journal (based on data from Aldora Intelligence) suggested that the Xbox Series X|S had sold 28.3 million of units until last June.

If we return to the data published by Sony we discover that the cumulative sales of PlayStation 5 during the quarter ending June 30, 2024 (Q1) were 61.7 million units. We are talking about the Sony console doubling the sales of the Microsoft console, something we already saw in the previous generation.

The PlayStation 4, as we noted above, sold 117 million units. The Xbox One, for its part, reached 57.9 million units. Now, things were very different years before, when the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 They were almost tied at sales levels, with 87.4 million and 84.9 million, respectively.

It should be noted that these giants of the video game world have taken different strategies. Sony continues to bet on hardware while Microsoft does not abandon hardware but envisions an increasingly solid future where players enjoy its catalog of games on any device through Game Pass.

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