Sony PlayStation 5 game console sales rise to 25 million, but subscriber numbers drop

Japanese giant Sony has published a report for the second fiscal quarter of 2022, which coincides with the third

calendar quarter.

What is known

In three months, the Japanese corporation sold another 3.3million PlayStation 5 game consoles. This indicator did not change in the annual comparison, but the total shipments of consoles increased to 25 million units. But the new generation consoles fall short of the PlayStation 4, which sold 29.4 million units.

Two fiscal quarters of PlayStation 5 shipmentsamounted to 5.7 million units. At the same time, the Japanese company wants to sell 5 million devices quarterly and reach the figure of 18 million models by the end of the financial year.


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But to increase the number of PS Plus subscribersthe manufacturer couldn't. In the reporting period, 45.4 million users used the service compared to 47.2 million last year and 47.3 million in the last quarter. In addition, the number of active PSN players fell over the year from 104 million to 102 million. Sony games sold 6.7 million copies, while total software sales reached 62.5 million copies.