PlayStation 4 Has Now Passed 50 Million Units Sold

It was barely half a year ago that we reported on the PlayStation 4 passing 40 million sales, but Sony’s console has passed another milestone just before the end of the year with more than 50 million consoles sold through to customers around the world.

That’s 10 million consoles in 6 months, which is pretty damn impressive, and comes during a rather interesting period in the console’s life. Notably, the Xbox One was finally managing to outsell the PS4 for consecutive months, but then Sony have revamped their entire console line up, first with the slimmer, cheaper PS4 in September, then with PlayStation VR and the release of a more powerful iteration of the console in early November.

The PS4 Pro will likely have helped to revitalise sales – though potentially also slowed them as people may have waited for its release before buying a new console – but so too did Sony’s best ever Black Friday week, spurred on by console and game bundles under the £200 mark in the UK and similar promotions in the US.

There’s no word on how the PlayStation VR is doing – recent reports have been less then overwhelmingly positive – but PS4 software sales now stand at 369.6 million games, both at retail and through digital downloads on the PlayStation Store.

 

Source: press release

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14 Comments

  1. Unlike other figures, this is actually ‘sold’ as opposed to ‘produced’ and it’s far ahead of PS3 at this stage. Bravo.

  2. “There’s no word on how the PlayStation VR is doing”

    It cant be doing that bad, its sold out everywhere. So much for Sony saying there will be plenty of supply to meet the Xmas demand.

    • Thing is that you can be sold out with 50,000 units produced and sold out with 5,000,000 units produced.

      • Yep, but why is it so hard to find one, sony previously said there would be plenty in stock for Xmas, yet there are none to be found. Seems to be like they cannot keep up with demand therefore it must be selling well.

        Either that or they are worried about it not selling and therefore not producing the units so they dont have stock they cant shift.

    • I was gonna say the same. It doesn’t matter how many they made – I think they would’ve sold every one of them. I know plenty of people that a desperate to get the PSVR but can’t get a hold of one unless they pay crazy money on Ebay.

      You’ll struggle to get Move Controllers at the moment too.

  3. Bloody hell… still chugging along at a fair old rate. Very impressed. :-)

    • Yeah, very impressive.
      And an early Christmas present for Sony.

  4. 4 tha playas!

    It’s got that Adele 21 momentum now where it just keeps selling and selling even though everyone on earth already has like 5 copies.

  5. Just to point out, Microsoft numbers are produced, not sold, they are the quiet months, and they only outsold the PS4 in the US, not worldwide.

    Quoting those “numbers’ (not that Microsoft have ever given anyone real numbers) basically didn’t nothing but hurt YOUR credibility.

    • Microsoft haven’t released sold or shipped numbers in quite some time, true, but the stats mentioned in this news story aren’t from Microsoft, they’re from the US and UK retail sales tracking bodies. As I explained to you before, it’s a fact that Microsoft sold more consoles in the US for four months running between July and October and a that they also outsold PlayStation in the UK and Australia during September and October.

      Is it narrowing the gap? Not necessarily, but it’s a sign of healthy competition.

      • And my point is that it’s regional cherry picked data that is deceiving, its very likely that despite these “victories” for Microsoft, the big picture is no different, the gap between PS4 and XBone in homes (which is the only valid measure) is growing, not shrinking.

        To the casual observer, there would be implication the gap narrowed, but the cherry picked nature of the stats, means it’s ignoring lots of other cherries so to speak. (The months they didn’t outsell in the UK and Australia, coukd easily offset the ones they did in the US)

      • All companies cherrypick data when it suits them, and having consecutive months in the lead is good news for Microsoft so they’re right to highlight it. Similarly, Sony tout the 50 million units sold, but haven’t given any figures at all about the PSVR or how many PS4 Pros have been sold. Even juggernauts like Apple only talking in vague terms about how many watches they’ve sold

        Take it with a pinch of salt, certainly, but the most important point to take away from it is that the Xbox One is selling plenty of consoles which is good news for the games industry as a whole.

      • I like cherries.

  6. According to this article, PSVR has sold over 800,000 but production has slowed because of problems making the OLED screens…

    http://www.wareable.com/vr/sony-playstation-vr-outsells-htc-vive-and-oculus-rift-3640

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