Sony Ships 65.5 Million PS5 Consoles, in Line with PS4

Sony has confirmed via its Q2 results for fiscal year 2024 that it's now shipped 65.5 million PS5 consoles, with a total of 3.8 million systems sold within the quarter itself. The company sold 1.1 million fewer PS5 boxes this quarter compared to the same one for the previous fiscal year, but sales of games are on the rise. 77.7 million copies of PS5 titles were sold during Q2, of which 5.3 million were first-party efforts. Overall, it's an increase of 10.1 million units compared to Q2 2023.

Elsewhere, Sony's monthly active PSN users tracker has remained steady at 116 million, which is the exact same as last quarter. Compared to this time last year, though, the number's up by nine million.

Interestingly, the ratio split of digital and physical purchases on PS5 has actually dropped slightly. It's still heavily in favour of digital, with 70 per cent of users opting for the disc-free option. However, that's the lowest the state has been for almost a year. Sony has stopped reporting how many PS Plus subscribers it has, so the stat doesn't appear in this report.

The latest PS5 shipping count means the current-gen console remains in line with PS4 sales tracking, sitting just below the older system by 2.2 million units. When the PS4 was in the second quarter of its fifth fiscal year, it had sold 67.7 million consoles. The PS5 is only just behind that, and history has revealed the system always catches up to PS4 in Q1. With the PS5 Pro now on the market, we'll be able to see how much of an impact its launch period has on total sales in the next quarterly report.

[source sony.com]