Sony Looks to Break Records by Selling More PlayStation Consoles Than Ever Before This Year
Sony has high hopes for the PS5 in the current financial year as it aims to break PlayStation records by selling 25 million units.
The company briefly mentioned its goals for next year during its latest earnings report, where it revealed the PS5 had now sold more than 38 million units thanks to its best year on the market so far.
The 19.1 million units it sold in financial year 2022-23 weren't enough though. "We aim to continuously accelerate penetration of PS5 and aim for PS5 sell-in units for the current fiscal year to be 25 million units, the highest ever for any [PlayStation] console in history," Sony said.
It would certainly be an impressive figure because, as mentioned, no PlayStation console in history has sold so many units in a single financial year, not even the PS2, which is the best selling console of all time with 159 million units sold.
The PS5 is certainly trending towards an incredibly strong year as its sales figures grew significantly as component shortages that plagued the video game industry waned. Sony recorded 7.1 million and 6.3 million sales in quarters three and four last year, compared to the 2.4 and 3.3 recorded in the two before that.
Especially compared to financial year 2021-22's figures, where Sony sold 3.9 million and two million PS5's in quarters three and four, Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan's comments that the stock shortage is essentially over seems accurate.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and acting UK news editor. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.
Source: IGN
