Playstation 5next generation Sony video game console, has sold just over 25 million units to date, with 3.3 million during the last quarter. The numbers for the last quarter are similar to the previous ones.

While rounding 25 million may sound like something of a success, the reality is that the numbers are well below the expectations of Sony, which expects to sell a total of 18 million consoles for the 2022 fiscal year (which ends on March 31, 2023). ). Number of PlayStation 5 units sold the first half of this fiscal year is around 5.7 millionsimilar to the 5.6 million registered in the same period in 2021.

Although the number of units sold is similar, sales increased significantly to approximately $4.92 billion. It doesn’t take a genius here to guess that the origin is in the higher price of the PlayStation 5, which allowed Sony to improve revenues even with the same level of sales. However, this contrasts with 49% drop in profits due to Bungie acquisitiona move made partly in response to massive purchases of companies by its biggest rival in the home console segment: Microsoft.

Sony sold a total of around 11.5 million PlayStation 5s during the entire 2021 fiscal year, a number that should be similar in 2022 if the current rate is maintained. It will be necessary to see if the Christmas campaign can lift sales, even temporarily, and if the company can maintain the pace of production, which has been altered by various factors affecting production and production since the pandemic. to logistics. on the other hand The recent price increase used by the Japanese company does not seem to have contributed to the sale of more unitsrather considering the current context of economic crisis and high inflation in which we live.

As for software sales, they rose from 62.5 million to 76.4 million. Digital downloads accounted for 63% of the total and increased both quantitatively and proportionally compared to last year, while the number of PlayStation Plus subscribers declined for the second consecutive quarter.

Sony has revised down its revenue projection for next quarter as it expects sales of its own video games to decline. However, it is more optimistic for the next fiscal year (2023) and expects to ship 23 million PlayStation 5 units.