PS4 Sales Strong
The PlayStation 4 hasn’t slowed down one bit since launch and continues to roll. Today we learned that Sony has shipped 60 million units since the console launched. In contrast the Xbox One has sold just under 30 million since launch. So needless to say, the PS4 has surpassed expectations and is hands-down the winner of this generations console war.
Sony announced the sales as part of its most recent financial earnings report for the company’s fourth fiscal quarter, which ended on March 31. In the report it was announced that 2.9 million PlayStation 4 consoles were shipped during the last three months of the fiscal year, thereby shipping 600.000 units more than in the same period last year. During FY2016, Sony managed to ship 20 million PS4 units, up from 17.7 million consoles in FY2015.
During Sony’s financial earnings call, Chief Financial Officer Kenichiro Yoshida mentioned that the PS4 is in its “harvest phase”, and that the PlayStation 4 Pro continues to “sell well”. He said:
“PS VR and PS4 Pro, which went on sale last fall, both continue to sell well, which demonstrates the achievements we made when launching new products in fiscal 16. Three and a half years have passed since the launch of PS4, and we expect annual unit sales in fiscal 17 to decrease year-on-year to 18 million units, but some major software titles are scheduled to be launched, and we believe we are in the harvest phase of the platform.”
The PlayStation 4 has been on the market since November 2013, and as we mentioned at at the top the demand has not slowed. In the US, more than one million PlayStation 4 consoles were sold on launch-day. In contrast, the PlayStation 3 has managed to sell roughly 86 million up to December 2015 units since its launch back in November of 2006.