Sony has sold a grand total of 65.5 million PlayStation 5 consoles worldwide. Since its initial release in November 2020, the PlayStation 5 has seen continued success, continuing the legacy cemented by previous iterations of Sony's home video game console.
Announced in 2019 and launched in 2020, the PS5 instantly wowed players with its impressive graphics, unique DualSense controller, and improved performance over its predecessor. Despite having relatively few games at launch, the ones made available became fast favorites for large portions of the community, including the preinstalled platformer Astro's Playroom and the action-adventure title Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Four years after the console's release, Sony is giving an update on how well the PS5 is performing, and the results are somewhat unsurprising.
The PlayStation 5's separate optical disk drive is selling out at online retailers in the wake of this week's digital-only PS5 Pro announcement.
In its Q2 results for fiscal year 2024, Sony revealed that over 65.5 million PlayStation 5 consoles have been shipped globally to date. This is in line with sales of the PlayStation 4, which had sold 67.7 million consoles at the same point in its lifecycle. Additionally, the...
