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https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2021/12/28/2021-year-in-review-breaking-records/
600 000 games sold per day? Damn, that a crazy amount imo.
PlayStation 4 Sells More Games Than Any Other Console in History
Sony’s success wasn’t just restricted to the PS5 console. By the end of the fiscal year, there had been 1.577 billion PS4 games sold over its lifetime, beating the previous record set by the PlayStation 2. Nearly 339 million games were sold between the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 that same year, an increase of 22% from the year prior. This meant 600,000 games were sold through the PlayStation Store every day throughout the year on average.
Later on in the year, the PlayStation 4 console reached lifetime sales of 116.4 million units worldwide. Despite this, sales of the PS4 console had dropped dramatically with just 500,000 units sold between April and June 2021. This wasn’t surprising bearing in mind the release of the PS5 console took a huge chunk of sales away. Sony also discontinued the production of many PS4 models, making them extremely difficult to find by the end of 2021.
PlayStation 5 Becomes the Fastest-Selling Console in US History
Despite the console’s scarce availability, the PlayStation 5 became the fastest-selling console in the US, both in terms of units and dollar sales. It was the first of many records it would go on to break in 2021. Sony announced their Game and Network Services Division had its best ever year by shipping 7.8 million PS5 consoles worldwide by the end of March 2021. They then went on to sell 10 million PS5 consoles by the end of July, and reached 1 million units sold in Japan and the UK at a speed much quicker than that set by the PS4 console. The PS5 is also estimated to have sold twice as many units as the Xbox Series X|S worldwide.
Sony isn’t intending to rest on their laurels anytime soon. They want to create more PlayStation exclusive games on the PS5 than any other console generation before it. The company aims to achieve more than 50% market share in console games revenue with the PS5 by selling more than 23 million consoles during the 2022 financial year. Before that, they want to have a record “year two” for the console by selling more than the 14.8 million units shifted by the PlayStation 4 console in its second year. However, the component shortages will need to be solved if they’re to stand any chance of doing that.
600 000 games sold per day? Damn, that a crazy amount imo.