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PlayStation
Sony’s
PS5
is
on
its
way
to
being
one
of
the
company’s
most
successful
consoles.
It
was
a
successful
quarter
for
Sony
regarding
PS5
sales.
Spotted
on
Engadget,
the
company
has
sold
4.9
million
PS5
units
during
its
second
financial
quarter.
That
number
now
brings
the
total
of
PS5
consoles
sold
to
46.6
million.
While
impressive
is
still
short
of
last
year’s
holiday
figures,
Sony
did
manage
to
move
1.6
million
units
more
than
it
did
in
the
previous
year.
The
impressive
numbers
come
as
Sony
(as
well
as
Nintendo
and
Xbox)
all
struggled
to
keep
up
with
the
demand
for
its
PS5
consoles
due
to
global
supply
chain
issues
due
to
the
COVID-19
pandemic.
As
things
slowly
got
back
to
“normal”
and
the
shortages
began
to
ease
up,
Sony
was
able
to
ramp
up
production
on
the
PS5
console.
By
the
end
of
July
2023,
Sony
announced
that
more
than
40
million
PS5
units
had
been
sold
since
the
console
hit
shelves
in
November
2020.
Sony
has
set
an
ambitious
target
of
shipping
25
million
PS5
units
in
this
financial
year,
but
to
achieve
that
goal,
the
company
has
to
move 16.8
million
more
units.
While
it
seems
like
a
bit
of
a
stretch,
according
to
Reuters
reporting,
Sony
President
Hiroki
Totoki
believes
the
goal
is
something
his
company
“can
attain
very
easily.”
The
new
“PS5
Slim”
model
due
out
this
month
could
be
that
shot
in
the
arm
that
Sony
needs
this
holiday
season
to
reach
that
goal,
as
the
PS5
will
surely
be
on
the
top
of
children’s
and
adult’s
Christmas
wishlists.
Sony
Also
Moved
A
Lot
of
Games
Hardware/consoles
was
not
the
only
thing
Sony
talked
about.
The
company
sold
67.6
million
games
in
the
second
quarter;
4.7
million
were
first-party
titles.
The
first-party
numbers
should
also
get
a
boost
thanks
to
Insomniac
Game’s
Marvel’s
Spider-Man
2,
which
the
studio
happily
announced
sold
5
million
copies
since
launching
exclusively
on
the
PS5
console.
That’s
quite
a
feat
for
a
game,
not
Grand
Theft
Auto
or
Call
of
Duty,
which
launches
on
multiple
consoles.
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