Sony has formally bought over 100 million PS4 consoles.
Since its introduction in November 2013, the PS4 has now bought 100 million models worldwide. Sony introduced the unsurprising information earlier at this time as a part of its earnings results [PDF] for the primary quarter of FY2019.
During the quarter, ending June 30, 3.2 million consoles had been bought, bringing the overall to 100 million. The extra attention-grabbing statistic is that the console reached this milestone in 5 years and 7 months.
According to Niko Partners senior analyst Daniel Ahmad, this makes PS4 the quickest console to succeed in 100 million ever, outpacing the PS2 in addition to the Nintendo Wii.
This makes PlayStation four the quickest dwelling console to succeed in 100 million unit promote in.
Faster than each the PS2 and Wii which had been simply behind.
It took PS2 a complete of 5 years and 9 months. PS4 was simply 5 years and seven months. pic.twitter.com/g4Bk8sckYf
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) July 30, 2019
Although PS4 gross sales have usually been slowing down, as usually occurs in direction of the top of a console technology, the Game and Network Services section carried out very properly for the corporate in Q1. This was principally pushed by robust PlayStation Plus and gross sales by the PlayStation Store, in addition to clearly the three.2 million {hardware} models.
In truth, digital is robust now that full game downloads have surpassed half (53%) of all games bought throughout the quarter.
Overall, Game and Network Services continues to be Sony’s largest moneymaker, bringing in 32% of the corporate’s income in Q1.
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