Sony has shipped 46.6 million PlayStation 5 consoles since release

Sony shipped 4.9 million PlayStation 5 consoles last quarter. With this, the company has shipped approximately 46.6 million PS5s since its release in 2020. The company also reports that Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2 sold more than 5 million copies in the first eleven days after release.

Sony confirmed the quantity of PS5 consoles delivered during the discussion of its quarterly figures. So far this fiscal year, Sony has shipped 8.2 million PlayStation 5s. In the first quarter of fiscal 2023, which started in April, the Japanese company shipped 3.3 million consoles. Last quarter there were 4.9 million, 23 percent more than in the second quarter of next year.

The company expects to ship 25 million PS5 consoles throughout the fiscal year. The company must therefore deliver another 16.4 million copies in the next six months. Sony expects to achieve that thanks to the release of its smaller and thinner PS5 variant, which will be released this month in the United States and will also be available in other parts of the world in the coming months.

Sony says its PlayStation platform had 107 million monthly active users in September. According to the tech giant, this is 5 million more than in the same month in 2022. Forty percent are PS5 users, says Sony. Furthermore, the company confirms that Spider-Man 2, the latest exclusive released by the company through its PlayStation Studios division, sold more than 5 million units in its first eleven days of release. The game was released on October 20, exclusively for the PlayStation 5.

Sony’s overall profit fell 29 percent last quarter. This is partly due to lower turnover from its chip division, which produces image sensors, and its financial industry. Sony made a profit of approximately 1.63 billion euros last quarter.

The new, smaller PS5 model coming soon. Source: Sony