Sony announces PlayStation 4 reaches 100 million units

Sony PlayStation 4 console has reached a sales milestone of 100 million units in the face of recent downturns in sales. Sony revealed in its latest earnings report that the company sold 3.2 million PS4 devices in the quarter ended June 30, 2019. Sony announced in the previous quarter’s earnings report that the cumulative sales of the PS4 have reached 96.8 million units, which means that 100 million PS4 devices have been sold.

This makes PlayStation 4 the fastest home console to reach 100 million unit sell in.

Faster than both the PS2 and Wii which were just behind.

It took PS2 a total of five years and 9 months. PS4 was just 5 years and 7 months. pic.twitter.com/g4Bk8sckYf

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) July 30, 2019

Daniel Ahmad, a senior analyst at Niko Partners, said that although PS4 sales may slow down, it is still the fastest-selling 100 million home consoles. This is faster than the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo’s popular Wii console. The PlayStation 4 reached this milestone in just 5 years and 7 months, and it was less than three years after reaching 50 million sales.

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Sony’s next-generation PlayStation, which should be the PS5, looks set to be available in the fall of 2020. Sony promises that the PS5 will support 8K graphics processing, 3D audio, SSD storage and backward compatibility with existing PlayStation 4 games. The PS5 will also use an eight-core CPU based on AMD’s third-generation Ryzen series and includes a GPU that supports ray-tracing graphics. Sony will also provide disc support on the PS5.

Source: theverge