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PS5 Sales Pass 74.9 Million Units After Shipping Almost 10 Million Consoles During the Holidays

Sony announced its (very strong) financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, together with the traditional update on PS5 shipments.

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italiangamer81d ago

That's a humongous number! Imagine by the end of the year with GTA 6...

andy8581d ago (Edited 81d ago )

Dang that's a huge number. 23m in 2024 when nothing important really released. 100m by end of this year if GTA6 releases

_SilverHawk_81d ago

By this time next year the ps5 should be at 100million sales.

JEECE81d ago

It's another reminder how the gamers represented on this site really don't represent the industry as a whole. From our perspective 2024 was a weak year for Sony because their major singleplayer exclusive output has faltered, but they did release Helldivers 2 last year, which was enormous, and College Football 25 released from EA as well. Obviously games like College Football 25 aren't PS exclusive, but with Xbox so down, a big multiplatform game helps PlayStation way more at this point (as you recognize with your GTA 6 point).

Aloymetal81d ago

Exactly what I was thinking, GTA6 is gonna be huge not only for R* but for Sony as well.

The_Hooligan81d ago

Especially if they bundle it together. Hell they might bundle it with the Pro to give that a boost (pun intended lol).

dveio81d ago (Edited 81d ago )

So, what I am reading from this:

- "500 million MAU" + Zenimax + ABK + "Game of the Decade" Starfield + Indiana Jones + Stalker 2 + Call of Duty in Gamepass + Flight Sim

resulted in

• -7% total revenue (USD 6.6 billion)
• -29% hardware sales
• somewhere around +2% for "content"

for the Xbox division in the most important quarter of the financial year.

Whereas the little Astro Bot, metaphorically speaking, helped the Playstation division in direct comparison to:

• +17% total revenue (~$11 billion, almost double Xbox)
• +15% hardware sales
• +37% operating income
• 75 million PS5s "shipped" (~72 million PS5s "sold through")
• once again decreased gap to aligned PS4 numbers

... in the most important quarter of the financial year.

2025 is already being forecasted to achieve even better fiscal results for Playstation.

Also, 2025 is about to offer an even better software line up overall.

I don't really see the "console business is stagnating" argument. At least not for Playstation and Nintendo.

lukasmain81d ago

The other box and its fans are always trying to change the narrative and Phil Spencer is King of that. While we're just sitting back laughing at them and collecting even more and more games. Playstation gamers are winning so much now it's crazy. Now that Sony is mostly going away from that pathetic live service push, we're going to see great things for the rest of this gen and the next.

ravens5281d ago

Well said dveio. Can't really combat those numbers and facts.

dveio81d ago

Nope, you're right, you can't.

But that's what the Miranda Rights are for, I guess.

Ninver81d ago

Broke it down factually. Xbox is practically finished.

CrashMania81d ago

Actual real numbers, unlike the fluff MS give us for Xbox.

B-but Sony too!!!1one!!

Aloymetal81d ago

Another gen, and most likely another 100mil+ consoles sold, PS is breaking their own records!
But they keep saying every month and practically every gen that home consoles are a thing of the past and everyone is jumping ship and moving to Pee Zee Lmao!

lodossrage81d ago

wow....talk about showing how things really are. Some people won't like that though unfortunately

Profchaos80d ago

Is it cheating for Microsoft to simply turn around and include anyone playing on ps5 as playing on Xbox because that's what they will do to pump those numbers

__y2jb80d ago

They absolutely will do that from now on. Their numbers are so bent it’s laughable.

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Relientk7781d ago

Wow congrats! The sales numbers are really getting up there. Damn

ocelot0781d ago

Fairly certain Sony is going to have the marketing rights to GTA6 later this year. If they release GTA6 slim and pro bundles. It's pretty much guaranteed they will have sold 100 million by Christmas 2025.

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New Honkai Game Announced and It Might Look Familiar to Pokemon Fans

HoYoverse has announced the development of a new Honkai game, which looks to feature Pokémon-like creature battles.

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Amazing Bomberman will no longer be playable from May 29th

Konami: "Notice of Service Termination

Thank you for your continued support of 'Amazing Bomberman'.

The game has been available on Apple Arcade since its launch in August 2022, but due to multiple factors, the game has decided to end its service and operations.

Please refer to the schedule below for details.

We would like to thank you all for your enthusiastic support of the game.
The entire development team would like to express our deepest gratitude.
We hope you will enjoy the game until the very end."

Knushwood Butt2d ago

The game decided to end its service and operations?

jznrpg1d 14h ago

That’s one way to shift blame

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Vits1d 13h ago

I mean… it was pretty underwhelming. They basically slapped on that overused “neon remaster” aesthetic that a bunch of older revivals have leaned on, cranked up the speed a bit, and called it a day. No real innovation, no fresh ideas, just a faster, flashier version of something we’ve already seen.

Games_People_Play1d 11h ago (Edited 1d 11h ago )

The all digital future looks bright.

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50 Best SNES Games of All Time

Cultured Vultures: You love the SNES, we love the SNES, so let’s look at the best SNES games ever together.

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FTLmaster3d ago

Uniracers (aka Unirally in the UK) is a low-key classic SNES game

PRIMORDUS3d ago

I loved Actraiser, the music really showed what the SNES can do.

GhostScholar3d ago

I’m sorry but pilot wings should be way higher than 50

Agent752d ago

UN Squadron, Stunt Race FX, Top Gear 2, Nigel Mansell F1, Rock 'n' Roll Racing, Adam's Family, Super Probotector. Top 3 for me, Mario Kart, Legend of the Mystical Ninja and Mario World. It kills me that the Mega Drive and Super Nintendo generation has gone. Going from a Commodore 64 to a Mega Drive and Super Nintendo, the much higher costs of games, I couldn't play them all.