PlayStation 5 has sold over over 10 million units since launch
We didn't even know there were 10 million PS5s available to be sold.
The PlayStation 5 is a much-sought after device. So much so that getting your hands on one readily is still a questionable prospect this far into 2021. Even so, that demand has also ensured that Sony’s latest star console continues to sell like hot cakes. According to Sony itself, that has led to a milestone as of this month. The PS5 console has sold over 10 million units since its launch, making it the fastest-selling PlayStation console in Sony’s history.
Sony announced this interesting milestone via the PlayStation Twitter account and in a Sony Interactive Entertainment blog post on July 28, 2021. Written by Global Head of Business Operations Veronica Rogers, the post shares that, as of July 18, the PlayStation 5 has achieved a milestone of over 10 million units sold worldwide. This has made it the fastest-selling console in the series so far in the time frame given. This is also even despite production limitations, including COVID-19 restrictions and an ongoing semiconductor shortage, which have made readily producing PS5s quite the challenge for the company.
It’s official: PS5 has sold 10 million consoles. Thank you!
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) July 28, 2021
Full details: https://t.co/PmajlWtWh1 pic.twitter.com/cMGTGBEVwY
The post also points to the PS5’s library of current and upcoming games as contributing factors to its success.
It would seem that if the Sony can keep supplies of the PS5 readily available, it could continue to grow one of the company’s best-selling consoles of all time. “Readily available” is the part that continues to be challenging, though, as even Sony’s own quarterly reportings have suggested. We’ll admit, we didn’t even know there were 10 million PS5s in existence. Good for them getting that far, all things considered.
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PS5 fastest selling PlayStation ever:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-07-28-ps5-is-the-fastest-selling-playstation-as-it-hits-10-million-sales-milestone
Still have not seen one in person anywhere or ever been in an online queue where I could buy one-
I've bought two and last week added one to my cart before deciding not to bother after clicking a link someone posted here (maybe it was best buy?)
They call me the PS5 whisperer.-
My coworker is up to 5 or 6 PS5s he's been able to buy. I bought mine from his luck on a PS Direct. He was telling me yesterday there is a chrome browser extension that will manipulate the Best Buy queue. Something about refreshing will get you a new spot in the queue. Then you just refresh until you get a good spot.
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I bought both of mine from Walmart using the affiliate link and following posts here giving the heads up when they were about to drop. Super easy.
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real-ass video games don't sell. I
t's gotta be open world with a bunch of mindless repetitive tasks and writing that would be rejected from a B action movie.-
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Sorry, my mistake. Real ass video games with a full price tag
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It's also on a system that only has 10 million units out there - meaning that half-million sales is 5% attach rate which isn't bad. To take another number, Spider-Man: Mike Morales sold 6.5M, but that's across both PS4 + PS5 (106M + 10M = 116M) or a 5.6% attach rate, so about the same. On the other hand, an indie game selling a million when there are easily 100+ million PCs out there - a 1% rate - isn't that great, but there are very different market segments to consider. So essentially Returnal is doing okay considering its limited platform availability.
What Sony doesn't yet have seems to be a system seller. Flipping to the Switch, which has ~85M sold, and several games at 20M+ sales, making the attach rate of around 25% or better, that's the type of numbers you'd want to see.-
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Returnal is a system-seller, IMO. I figured I'd probably enjoy it, but it's honestly the most fun I've had with a video game in ages, and something pretty special.
Sadly, the kind of game it is means a lot of people will just never give it a shot or bounce off of it. Beyond the gameplay itself, there's just a lot of cool world and enemy and lore/story happening there.
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I also wonder if, with Sony's new strategy in regards to making PC ports, these sales figures make it even more likely we'll see this on PC. So than recoup more of their investment
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Look man there’s only so many nice things you can have in your part of the country. If you want better ATMs and a PlayStation you gotta look elsewhere.
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Separately, estimates of Xbox Series X/S are now at 6.5 million, which would make it MS's fastest selling console too. MS doesn't report hard numbers but this agrees with their recent report.
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It's all relevant. Sells to scalpers counts in favor of the MFR's sell thru numbers. They, and Amazon/Best Buy/Walmart/Game Stop, etc. Don't care who buys it. Money is money. Game hands is a whole different number and I don't think there's a way to track that beyond Sony's metrics on logins from PS5 machines. And, they're not going to share that.
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Still waiting for the Best Buy email to come pick up the one I ordered. 😢
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I almost had one last week, but my bank was like "nah, you don't really need that."
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*raises hand* I’m not paying $600+ for a damn 3060. I’ll try again later next year.
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Which consoles weren’t the best/fastest selling ever for the platform owner? Wii U? Given the ever expanding size of the gaming market you basically have to really fuck up to not outsell your last gen device.
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Each unit on average has been sold 1.7 times.
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Anybody want a one time use code for 10% off PS4/PS5 games & accessories from direct.playstation.com? It expires tomorrow at 12 PM PST.
I have no use for it.
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