Sony has offered 65 million PS5s

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

The web outcome? 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, dearer (and possibly extra worthwhile) console prepared for Christmas, Sony was bullish on the remainder of its yr, 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 offered 20 million models in Q2 (together with the PC model). One other excessive performer was the primary occasion Astro Bot title, exhibiting the ability of hit video games to sway gross sales.

Sony nonetheless has two quarters left in its fiscal yr, which ends March 31. Upcoming first occasion titles anticipated previous to that embody Murderer’s Creed Shadow and Monster Hunter Wilds, each set for February 2025. Nonetheless, Sony’s fiscal 2025 beginning in April might 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 yr.