PlayStation 5 sold 4.5 million consoles in the first quarter of launch

The debut of PlayStation 5 on the market, despite the current and persistent distribution difficulties due to the pandemic, it did not do badly at all. Sony Corporation has announced, in fact, that it has sold approximately 4 million PlayStation 5 consoles worldwide, data relating to the period from its official release until 31 December 2020. PlayStation 4 e PlayStation 4 PROInstead, have reached 115 million pieces distributed from 2013 to date. There was also confirmation of the news Geoff keighley on your official profile of Twitter.

In earnings, Sony confirmed it sold 4.5 million # playstation5 units in the launch quarter. pic.twitter.com/g3f9xeYw5j

- Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) February 3, 2021

The sales figure in the first quarter of the PlayStation 5 launch wasn't the only one released by Sony, which also shared other market information. First, the company said it shipped 1.4 million PlayStation 4s in the last quarter, a decreasing amount compared to that of 2019, which saw an overall sale of 6 million consoles sold in the same period. Important numbers, then, also concern the distribution on the videogames market, which is instead on the rise, also helped by the pandemic, which has forced many at home. In the last quarter they were sold 103.7 million video games for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, or 20.4 million more than the 83.3 million sold in the same period of the previous fiscal year. The PlayStation Studios by Sony. Indeed, 18.4 million of these are first party games published by the company's internal studios, a figure that is up by 2.1 million compared to the 16.3 million Sony games sold from October to December 2019. 53% of total sales involved the digital market against 50% of the same period last fiscal year.

Finally, the data relating to the PlayStation Plus. As for Sony's subscription service, subscribers reached 47.4 million as of December 31, 2020, an increase of 8.6 million compared to the data announced as of December 31, 2019. A year, therefore, that we can consider decidedly positive for PlayStation.