In November last year, Sony released the new Play Station 5 series of next-generation game consoles. However, due to the epidemic and other reasons, the lack of supply of the consoles and the large stock of “scalpers” eventually led to the skyrocketing price of PS5, making it difficult to find a single machine.
Recently, according to the LinkedIn resume of Chandrashekar Raju, senior director of Sony’s PlayStation Engineering Department, Sony’s PS5 sales have exceeded 6.5 million units. It should be noted that in the third quarter fiscal year 2020 financial report of Sony announced in February, as of December 31, 2020, Sony PS5 sales were 4.5 million units, which means that PS5 sales increased by about 200 in 2021. Ten thousand units sold.
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At the same time, in this financial report, Sony officially confirmed that the current price of the PS5 ($499.99/49,980 yen) is lower than the cost (including transportation costs) for sale. In addition, according to previous data, it is estimated that by the end of March 2021, PS5 sales will reach between 7.6 million and 8 million units, but according to the sales of 6.5 million units in the resume, it is obviously not up to this expected standard.
The financial report pointed out that as of December 31, Sony’s total turnover in the quarter was 2,696.5 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 9.5%, and total operating profit was 359.2 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 20%.
In terms of hardware, PS4 sold 1.4 million units in the third quarter, a year-on-year decrease of 4.6 million units, with total sales of 115.1 million units. In terms of games, Sony’s total sales of PS4 and PS5 games reached 103.7 million (digital version accounted for 53%), first-party game sales reached 18.4 million, and total sales increased by 20.4 million copies year-on-year. Among them, “Spider-Man: Miles Morales” sold 4.1 million copies, and “Marvel’s Spider-Man” sold 13.2 million copies.
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