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The PlayStation 4

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Announced by Sony Interactive Entertainment, the 2018 holiday season saw over 5.6 million PlayStation 4 units being sold, pushing the system to its new sales milestone.As for the games, more than 50.7 million PS4 games were sold during the holiday season, bringing the worldwide total to over 876 million PS4 games sold since Sony's latest console launched on November 15, 2013. Marvel's Spider-Man, which is PlayStation's fastest-selling exclusive of all time, continued its success story through the holidays with sales reaching over 9 million units globally as of November 25, 2018.John Kodera, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, also announced that "the montly active users of PlayStation Network continues to show strong growth, and has surpassed 90 million as of end of November 2018."Back in October, Sony revealed that the PlayStation 4 had sold over 86.1 million units, a number that was surely bolstered by the strong sales of God of War, which also happened to win our Game of the Year for 2018. 2019 should be another strong and interesting year for PlayStation, especially considering Sony confirmed that it is working on a next-gen console and has decided that it will not be attending E3. For more on PlayStation, be sure to check out our list of 31 big games coming in 2019 and take a look back with our PS4 in 2018: A Year in Review.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN who applauds Sony's success and can't wait to see what 2019 has in store for us. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst.