Sony has bought 65 million PS5s

Simply after launching the PlayStation 5 Pro, Sony revealed that it has bought 65.5 million PlayStation 5s as of the top of Q2 2024. Whereas gross sales of the console dropped 1.1 million items from the identical interval final 12 months (and are down 2 million items whole in 2024), this was greater than offset by recreation gross sales of 77.7 million items, up 14.9 % from Q2 2023. Sony’s month-to-month energetic PlayStation Community customers remained at 116 million regardless of a big price bump late final 12 months.

The web consequence? Income climbed by 9 % and working revenue rose by a stellar 73 % to 445.1 billion yen ($2.91 billion). Given these income and the truth that the corporate has a brand new, costlier (and possibly extra worthwhile) console prepared for Christmas, Sony was bullish on the remainder of its 12 months, boosting its income forecast barely.

A giant a part of Sony’s recreation gross sales story is the success of the motion RPG Black Myth: Wukong, which reportedly bought 20 million items in Q2 (together with the PC model). One other excessive performer was the primary celebration Astro Bot title, displaying the facility of hit video games to sway gross sales.

Sony nonetheless has two quarters left in its fiscal 12 months, which ends March 31. Upcoming first celebration titles anticipated previous to that embrace Murderer’s Creed Shadow and Monster Hunter Wilds, each set for February 2025. Nevertheless, Sony’s fiscal 2025 beginning in April could possibly be a blockbuster with extremely anticipated video games like Ghost of Yotei, Dying Stranding 2, DOOM: The Darkish Ages and Grand Theft Auto VI arriving later subsequent 12 months.