PS5 breaks sales records and contributes to one of the best years in Sony’s history.

We have told you in previous weeks that Sony had very high expectations for the next sales report. PS5. In fact, a report from firm Circana (formerly NPD) has already told us that the last quarter has been the best quarter for the console since its launch, at least in the United States. However, now Sony itself has revealed the PlayStation 5’s commercial numbers in the latest fiscal quarter, and it couldn’t be any better for them.

According to them, in the last financial quarter of 2022 – from January 1 to March 31, 2023 – they managed to sell 6.3 million units, an astonishing figure that exceeds our own forecast of 5.2 million. In fact, the PS5 has just set a new record: the best-selling console in history within the first three months of a calendar (not fiscal) year.

The above makes it clear to us that Sony has managed to solve all the problems that have prevented the PS5 from being successful since its launch. It must be remembered that the console was released in November 2020, but for many months the company could not meet the demand for various reasons. First, the pandemic, which caused the closure of the Asian production chain. Then the shortage of components that affected the entire technology industry.

In the United States and Europe, the most important markets for the PlayStation, it was still impossible to find a PS5 in the middle of last year. However, Sony managed to win, and the picture improved significantly in the second half of 2022. The shortage was left behind, and the Japanese were finally able to meet the huge global demand for their console.

Sony mentions that So far, 38.4 million PS5s have been sold.of which 19.1 (half) are for FY 2022 only. More importantly, they believe this sales pace will continue until 63.4 million consoles have been sold by March 2024.

If the above is true, then the PS5 is on the right track to surpass its predecessor, the PlayStation 4, which has sold over 120 million units to date.

Sony may also be happy with software distribution. In the final quarter of fiscal 2022, 70.5 million copies were sold, up from 68 million in the same period the previous year. From my side, PlayStation Plus already has 108 million userswhich is slightly more than the 106 registered in the fourth quarter of 2021.

These extraordinary numbers have, of course, benefited Sony’s treasury. They had one of the best years in their history thanks to the momentum of the PS5. The company has created $8.9 billion in benefits in FY 2022a new record for a Japanese enterprise.

Sony is confident that the PS5 will continue to be popular. This is mainly due to his strategy of launching exclusive games. The next one will see the light of day on June 22 final fantasy 16and it is expected that in the last months of the year we will be able to enjoy Spiderman 2 by Marvelanother guaranteed bestseller.