Sony put a record for sales of new generation gaming consoles. This is stated in the company published on the company’s website.
In the report for the fourth quarter and the past fiscal year, it is said that the flagship model of PlayStation 5 demonstrates confident sales. From the moment the console is released, the Japanese corporation put 7.8 million units of PS5 consoles. It approximately 200 thousand more than PlayStation 4 sold for a similar period. In the period from January to March 2021, the company implemented 3.3 million units of devices. Sales PS4 and PS5 started in November 2013 and 2020, respectively.
Also, the report discloses information that the overall operating profit of the PlayStation division was 342.2 billion yen, or about $ 3.14 billion. This is a record indicator for the company.
In the Sony documents presented, it is said that the number of PlayStation Plus subscribers is 47.6 million people, which is 14.7 percent more than in 2020.
Representatives of Sony noticed that in the last quarter, about a million prefixes of past generation PS4 were delivered to the market. The current PS5 consoles are still in short supply, acquire them problematic, and this situation is saved worldwide.
Earlier, the head of the Central Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina advised schoolchildren not to take a loan on the PlayStation Console 5. According to the head of the regulator, it is not worth lending for the sake of goods without which you can live.