Sony is breaking records with PlayStation 5
The company set the historical record in calendar Q1 among all consoles.
Sony shipped 19.1M PlayStation 5 consoles in the 2022 financial year (March 2022 - March 2023). The initial goal was 18M consoles.
Console shipping in the 2022 financial year increased by 66%.
Especially successful was financial Q4 2022 (calendar Q1 2023), in which Sony shipped 6.3M consoles. It's 215% more than a year before.
Ampere Analysis is highlighting that PlayStation 5 sales in calendar Q1 2023 (or financial Q4 2022) are the best calendar Q1 in all console’s history. And 2 times better than PlayStation 4 ever achieved in calendar Q1.
67% of all PlayStation sales are digital. A year before was 66%.
MAU on PlayStation consoles reached 108M users.