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[Draugoth]

PlayStation 5 has now sold 40 million consoles worldwide, Sony has announced.

By comparison, PlayStation 4 -- the fastest-selling PlayStation console to 40 million -- achieved the same feat two months quicker. The PS5 was severely impacted by component shortages, which meant Sony was unable to supply the demand for the system during the first two years on the market. The console is now in full supply.

The milestone follows a strong June for PS5 across Europe, with sales up 116% compared with the same period in 2022. As part of the announcement, PlayStation also revealed that there are now 2,500 PS5 games available on the platform.

We launched PlayStation 5 in November 2020 and the world was in a strange and different place than when we announced the console in 2019. Despite the unprecedented challenges of COVID, our teams and our partners worked diligently to deliver PS5 on time. We continued to face headwinds with the pandemic, and it took months for supply chains to normalize so we could have the inventory to keep up with demand. For more months than I care to remember, we kept thanking our community for their patience while working through these issues. But now PS5 supply is well-stocked and we are seeing that pent up demand finally being met.

With the support of PlayStation fans, we have reached a milestone of 40 million PS5 consoles sold through to gamers since launch. Thank you so much to our community of gamers – without you this would have been an impossible task

PS5 launched with the best catalog of games in our history and the momentum for great content keeps getting stronger. From innovative indie games to AAA blockbusters, there are more than 2,500 PS5 games now available, and it has never been a better time to experience PS5 In the last two months alone, we have seen incredible new games from our partners, including Final Fantasy XVI, Diablo IV, and Street Fighter 6.

Since the launch of PS5, players have been enjoying a selection of great games that illustrate how games are as vast and creative as any other entertainment medium. To that end, here are 40 games that have been voted for by PlayStation players.
A great addition to the PS5 generation has been our array of accessories. Over the past two and a half years we have unveiled new ways gamers can customize the experience and bring exciting colors into their homes. We developed a range of colors for the DualSense wireless controller and PS5 console covers. These accessories have proven really popular as players want their PS5 to reflect their taste.

We developed PS5 with our community at the forefront of our thinking, which led us to deliver innovations like the adaptive triggers and haptic feedback in the DualSense controller, as well as PlayStation VR2. PlayStation Studios and our third-party partners have jumped in to take advantage of these capabilities and expand their creative toolkit to deliver a generational leap in the experiences they bring to gamers.

Thank you again for your continued support of PlayStation.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

This means they've sold through ~10M PS5s since January of this year. Not bad! Jimbo is pleased!

 

[Unknown?]

By the end of the year it'll have surpassed PS4 by quite a margin as well. Pretty good!

 

[kikkis]

I feel like both systems sell based on the reputation of past gen, instead of what respective platforms holders have done this generation.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[jroc74]

Welp....

 

[Banjo64]

Bugsnax?!

 

[Zheph]

Bugsnax?!

it's decent man, allow it

 

[Unknown?]

I feel like both systems sell based on the reputation of past gen, instead of what respective platforms holders have done this generation.

Nah this gen PS5 has had quite a bit of great exclusives and 3 party games. Better than PS4's launch.

The other system is doing worse than last gen in every way so it's not the previous gen bogging it down.

 

[jroc74]

I feel like both systems sell based on the reputation of past gen, instead of what respective platforms holders have done this generation.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Is it on a trajectory to outsell ps4? I'm sure if anything can do it. Spider man can.

 

[Roxkis_ii]

I feel like both systems sell based on the reputation of past gen, instead of what respective platforms holders have done this generation.

If there were no ps5 games, people wouldn't buy a ps5.

 

[Horseganador]

It´s prints money.

 

[Tomi]

Megaton, this is crazy what Sony is doing!

 

[gametimedecision]

This is why I’m shocked anyone thought the activision deal is gonna at all hurt PlayStation

It’s too big to fail

 

[jroc74]

Nah this gen PS5 has had quite a bit of great exclusives and 3 party games. Better than PS4's launch.

The other system is doing worse than last gen in every way so it's not the previous gen bogging it down.

Add to this the cross gen games....when once upon a time BC was a major talking point for Series consoles...and yeah....

PS5 launched alot better than the PS4, regardless of the debates about the overall library.

 

[gametimedecision]

If there were no ps5 games, people wouldn't buy a ps5.

It would have still sold like 30 mil

 

[AV]

Bugsnax?!

A game that got shat on mostly by people who never touched it.

Looks awful from afar but it's an endearingly weird and unique thing with a surprising horror undertone. As part of PS+ it was a great 7/10 distraction.

 

[Bernoulli]

And volcano high isn't yet released

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Dayum!

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

10 mils in 6 moths. What a tempo!

 

[WoJ]

I feel like both systems sell based on the reputation of past gen, instead of what respective platforms holders have done this generation.

People are acting like this is some kind of odd statement. But we are still getting cross gen games and just now starting to really get into this gen 3 years in. If you hadn't purchased a PS5 until now there is very little you would have missed by staying on PS4 until now.

 

[Kerotan]

Dayum!

So shipped would be higher. Their profit market is crazy high on every ps5 sold. Much higher then ps4.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

PlayStation faithful rejoice and the best games are yet to come

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

The concern about the numbers is already in full swing at installbase lmao.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[tmlDan]

This is why I’m shocked anyone thought the activision deal is gonna at all hurt PlayStation

It’s too big to fail

We said it will hurt gamers, not necessarily PlayStation.

 

[Darkness_Arises]

Just give me a Rachet PS5 remaster with all the PS3 games and I will finally upgrade from my PS4.

 

[zapper]

compared to the previous year it seems to me to be slowing down (2.3 million in the same quarter in 2022, 1.6 million today)...? maybe it's the fault of the previous quarter (January-March) in which they satisfied the demand a lot, but with ff16, diablo, sf6 out I expected more

 

[Mr Hyde]

Playstation never stops winning.

 

[Zheph]

compared to the previous year it seems to me to be slowing down (2.3 million in the same quarter in 2022, 1.6 million today)...? maybe it's the fault of the previous quarter (January-March) in which they satisfied the demand a lot, but with ff16, diablo, sf6 out I expected more

Diablo is doing most of its numbers on PC, SF6 is not the big seller people seems to think it is.
Spiderman will do the heavy work

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

compared to the previous year it seems to me to be slowing down (2.3 million in the same quarter in 2022, 1.6 million today)...? maybe it's the fault of the previous quarter (January-March) in which they satisfied the demand a lot, but with ff16, diablo, sf6 out I expected more

You are mixing shipped vs sold through. The number of sold through PS5s for March - July should be around 4M.

 

[Spyxos]

With Spiderman 2, the numbers should increase significantly once again.

 

[NEbeast]

People are acting like this is some kind of odd statement. But we are still getting cross gen games and just now starting to really get into this gen 3 years in. If you hadn't purchased a PS5 until now there is very little you would have missed by staying on PS4 until now.

People are getting the better version of those games? What are you talking about?

MS must seriously be thinking holding games from ABK/Bethesda off PS is bad when they are consistently missing targets and Sony are crushing it. It will be funny to see them do a 180 at some point because people just don't care about gamepass.
Without supply issues the ps5 would be tracking way ahead of the ps4.

 

[CatLady]

Nah this gen PS5 has had quite a bit of great exclusives and 3 party games. Better than PS4's launch.

The other system is doing worse than last gen in every way so it's not the previous gen bogging it down.

Yeah, Sequels, DLC remakes and remasters. Other than Returnal what NEW games have sony made this gen?

 

[HTK]

People are acting like this is some kind of odd statement. But we are still getting cross gen games and just now starting to really get into this gen 3 years in. If you hadn't purchased a PS5 until now there is very little you would have missed by staying on PS4 until now.

What are you talking about? Since Day 1 games were more superior graphically and performance fps wise, did they squeeze everything out of the console on Day 1, no but to say that the PS5 games were just a little bit superior over PS4 is disingenuous.

 

[saintjules]

 

[zapper]

You are mixing shipped vs sold through. The number of shipped PS5s for March - July should be around 4M.

the numbers on the right represent units sold right? if so then it hasn't slowed down, good

 

[Poltz]

 

[Pedro Motta]

Yeah, Sequels, DLC remakes and remasters. Other than Returnal what NEW games have sony made this gen?

Buy one and find out.

 

[Punished Miku]

People are acting like this is some kind of odd statement. But we are still getting cross gen games and just now starting to really get into this gen 3 years in. If you hadn't purchased a PS5 until now there is very little you would have missed by staying on PS4 until now.

People actually say that all the time and have claimed we are just now entering the Ryan / Hulst era in terms of software. Not really a crazy statement.

 

[Shubh_C63]

I don't know maybe its my personal life, or maybe it was the COVID factor but I felt PS5/this-gen has been in the market for ages.

If news says so I have to admit 40M is a lot. Feels like a decade to me.

Yeah, Sequels, DLC remakes and remasters. Other than Returnal what NEW games have sony made this gen?

Compared to whom ?

 

[Dr.brain64]

Sony on fire. Great job.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

the numbers on the right represent units sold right? if so then it hasn't slowed down, good

Yes, so it should be 31M units sold to customers and 32.1M units shipped worldwide by January 2023.

 

[Robb]

And the ‘real’ first party next-gen games have barely started to come out yet.

Ps5 is going places.

 

[Spitfire098]

 

[Pelta88]

On pace with PS4 despite a global pandemic? You can't buy that type of mindshare.

All before the heavy hitters like Spider-Man 2.

 

[jroc74]

Yeah, Sequels, DLC remakes and remasters. Other than Returnal what NEW games have sony made this gen?

Now sequels are dismissed.

What a time to be alive. Also....3rd parties making remakes and remasters count for...reasons.

 

[MHubert]

I feel like both systems sell based on the reputation of past gen, instead of what respective platforms holders have done this generation.

Your really didn't think that one through, did you?

 

[kazuyamishima]

The figure is until July 16th.

So 10m units until then for this CY.