The PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro – they’re selling pretty well

It’s nothing but good news in Sony’s latest financial results, as total sales for the PlayStation 4 approach the 60 million mark.

Sony shipped an amazing 20 million PlayStation 4 consoles over the course of the last financial year, which ended on March 31.

That means lifetime shipments now stand at 60 million, and although that doesn’t mean they’ve sold quite that many it won’t be long till they have.

Especially as Sony sold 2.9 million consoles in just the last three months, up from 2.3 million at the same time last year.


Sony are predicting they’ll sell another 18 million consoles in the next financial year, which means that by this time next year they should be on at least 78 million.



That puts them ahead of the PlayStation 2 at the same time in its lifecycle, and could mean the PlayStation 4 ends up being the best-selling console of all time.

The most important thing for Sony though is that they’re making money, with profits of £944 million the highest since 1998 and the glory days of the original PlayStation. But again, they should beat that next year, with a prediction that profits will be up 25% in just 12 months.

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It’s that time of year at the moment, when companies announce their yearly results, and yesterday Nintendo also revelled in good news – with profits of £200 million and Nintendo Switch sales that were ahead of all expectations.

Microsoft has also announced their results, but as always they’ve tried to say as little as possible about their Xbox business.

It does seem to have been relatively good news though, with last quarter Xbox game sales up 7% on last year, with an overall 4% increase in sales for all things Xbox-related.

The number of active Xbox Live users also increased by 13%, but as usual there were no hardware sales figures and specific Xbox revenue and profit information was lumped in with a bunch of other things like Windows and search and advertising.

Unofficial estimates though put the Xbox One lifetime total at around 29 million worldwide, so half that of the PlayStation 4.

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