Sony has announced that PS4 shipments have reached 63.3 million units worldwide, the format holder revealed during its latest financial briefing.
The electronics giant shipped a total of 3.3 million PS4s during the quarter April 1 – June 30, 2017, although the figure is down from the same period last year, where Sony move 3.5 million consoles. The company is still aiming to ship 18 million PS4s during this financial year.
Elsewhere, the division that houses the PlayStation business, known as Game & Network Services, saw a leap in revenue of 5.4 percent year-on-year, which Sony primarily attributed to improved PS4 game sales, both physical and digital, plus “the contribution of PlayStation VR.” Despite this, the division’s bottom line was affected by the recent PS4 price drop.
Sony announced earlier this year that PS4 sales hit 60.4 million units worldwide since the console’s launch in November 2013, with five million sold in Japan alone.
The last year has been a significant period for the company’s flagship console, with three new hardware launches arriving in the back half of the year: PlayStation 4 Slim, PlayStation 4 Pro, and PlayStation VR. Sony would later reveal that one in every five consoles sold is a PS4 Pro, although hasn’t divulged exactly how much the high-end machine has moved to date.
While it isn’t known exactly how well the PS4 is performing in comparison to the Xbox One—Microsoft has been notoriously quiet on sales figures in recent years—Sony has said that its current generation system is outselling its rival by three-to-one in Europe.
Source: GameSpot