Last month, barely two weeks ago, Jim Ryan proudly announced on the website of Sony Interactive Entertainment that sales of the PS5 had exceeded 40 million units worldwide. The news could very well have waited, since sony just share its results for the first quarter of the current fiscal year, which ran from April 1 to June 30, 2023. It is especially on the side of Additional Information that our gaze turns, where it is postponed that 3.3 million PlayStation 5s were sold in these three months, bringing the total to 41.7 millionan increase of 0.9 million compared to the same period last year.
On the games side, and not to change, no distinction is made between those sold on PS4 and PS5including also copies of bundles with a console or PSVR. So these are 56.5 million copies sold during the quarter, an increase of 9.3 million compared to last year. Of these, 6.6 million were productions first party, about the same number as at this time last year. And for the critics of digital, know that 72% of game sales were made onlinewhich related to the quantity of games is an increase compared to the previous first quarter.
And if the number of active users of the NHP amounted to 108 million over these three months, i.e. 5 million more than in 2022 from April to June, this time we have no new information concerning the Playstation Plus, which seems quite strange. In general, this kind of no bets may sound like bad numbers… but it’s hard to imagine a significant drop from the 47.4 million users there were at last count.
Strangely, a point was made on the cumulative sales of many games first partybut without refreshing the data. This is particularly obvious for Ghost of Tsushimafor which we read 8 million as of October 10, 2021, while in July 2022 the bar of 9.73 million copies had been exceeded… As to PSVR 2he is still absent subscribers.
If you want to get a PS5, it’s available on Amazon from €540.00.
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