As of March 31, 2023 Playstation 5 sold around the world in circulation 7,800,000 consoles… This is stated in the report of the corporation published today. Sony for the ended financial year.
The next generation system sells from the start faster than any other console in history… The previous record belonged to Playstation 4 – after debuting in November, she completed her first March with sales in 7,600,000 copies…
At this stage, the demand for the PlayStation 5 significantly exceeds the supply.
The chart below shows sales of different consoles for the first two reporting quarters.:
PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii, DS, PS3, and Xbox 360 launched in November and the data is shown as of March 31st. Nintendo Switch was released on March 3, the data is shown on June 30, and the PlayStation 2 debuted in March 2000 in Japan only.
- Sony sold 4.3 million PlayStation consoles in the last quarter… 3.3 million are on the PlayStation 5, and the rest, that is, 1 million, on the PlayStation 4.
- PlayStation 4 Demand Continues To Slow Down… A year earlier, 1.4 million consoles were sold in the fourth quarter. The total circulation of the fourth PlayStation at the moment is 115.9 million…
- For January-March 2023, users bought a total of 61.4 million copies of games for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 (a year earlier, 65.3 million were sold on one PS4 during the same period). Of which 12.9% or 7.9 million copies are games from Sony itself…
- 79% of the total number of games sold in January-March are digital copies, the rest is discs… The rapid growth of the PlayStation Store over the past year is primarily due to the coronavirus pandemic and quarantine measures in different countries.
- For the entire financial year, that is, from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2023, Sony and its partners implemented 338.9 million copies of games on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. 65% are digital copies, 35% are physical. A year earlier, numbers accounted for 53% of sales.
- PlayStation Plus Subscribers reached the mark of 47.6 million people… A year earlier, this figure was 41.5 million.
- In terms of revenue, the past fiscal year was the most successful in the history of the PlayStation… Sony’s gaming branch generated $ 25.04 billion in revenue (the largest platform holder of any generation) and an operating profit of $ 3.23 billion (Sony’s gaming division hit the 3 billion mark for the first time).
- Directly in January-March, Sony’s gaming branch generated $ 6.24 billion in revenue (a new record for the fourth quarter).
Historically, Sony ended years of launching new consoles with negative gaming department figures, as seen in the graph below, but the start of the PlayStation 5, which saw high sales of games and services with the PlayStation 4 active, reversed this trend. As a result, PlayStation showed record numbers instead of losses.
In the current fiscal year, which ends March 31, 2023, Sony’s gaming division hopes to generate 27.1 billion in revenue on 3.04 billion in operating profit.… A slight drop in the second indicator is expected due to the projected improvement in the situation with the pandemic.
As for the entire Sony corporation, it received the largest net profit in its history in the past year in the amount of more than 1 trillion yen ($ 10 + billion).… PlayStation accounted for 33%.
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