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Sony Interactive Entertainment has shipped 5 times more PlayStation 5 consoles than Microsoft have with Xbox Series X|S in the last quarter.
This is according to Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad, who has shared some of his analysis after reading through Sony’s latest financial report released recently.
4. The PlayStation 5 has sold in 59.2 million units as of March 31, 2024.
This is slightly behind the PS4 in the same time frame (60 million). They do not expect the PS5 to surpass the PS4 in the next year.
In other words, while console hardware sales are healthy, Sony is… pic.twitter.com/ExaMQZKQfn
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) May 14, 2024
In the last quarter, Sony Interactive Entertainment has shipped over 4.5 million units, thus making over 59 million consoles sold in total. This is almost equivalent to the sales of PlayStation 4 at the same point in its lifecycle.
Microsoft, on the other hand, faced a 31% year-on-year drop in its console sales, although note that specific figures have not been revealed by the company.
That said, interestingly, PlayStation 5 sales did dropped by 29% year-on-year, despite consoles sales are up for the year as a whole.
This shows that console sales are slowing across the industry, although PlayStation consoles are selling more than Xbox Series X|S.
The financial report also noted that sales in PlayStation games segment increased by 17% year-on-year, and operating income increased by 40.2bn yen year-on-year to a 290.2bn yen total.
As announced yesterday, Sony Corporation Group named PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst as CEO of Studio Business Group, while Hideaki Nishino has been assigned to lead as CEO of Platform Business Group.
