Also in the context of its latest financial results which have been made public, Sony Interactive Entertainment looks back on the sales figures of the PlayStation 5. We already knew, the new console of the Japanese firm has achieved the best start in history from PlayStation, but the numbers were missing so we could gargle. It is now done, and we learn that no less than 4.5 million machines have passed by the date set on December 31, 2020. Impressive results which prove the desire of players to move on to the next gen ‘ and this despite the price of 499 € for the version with disc player which remains Sony’s biggest sale. However, the health crisis and the manufacturing problems of AMD chips have severely hampered the availability of the PS5 in physical and virtual shelves, to the point that today, it is extremely complicated to get one. This means that this shortage has a significant impact on the growth of sales which inevitably decreased at the beginning of the year 2021, with factories still struggling to release assembled units. This is somewhere a false start since the number of PS5 sold equals in fine to that of the PS4 in 2013, which had not yet been so explosive in its first weeks of operation. Despite everything, Sony Interactive Entertainment has achieved the best turnover in the history of the video game industry over the period from October to December 2020 with 6.9 billion euros generated. It’s beautiful.
