PS5 reaches 75 million sold as of Dec 31st! Best holiday period of this gen!

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/playstation-5-enjoys-best-ever-holiday-period-reaching-75-million-shipments/

PlayStation 5 enjoyed its best-ever holiday period in 2024 and has now cleared 75 million units shipped, Sony announced on Thursday.

In the company’s financial results for the three months ended December 31, 2024, Sony reported shipments of 9.5 million PS5 consoles – the best quarter ever of the PS5 era, and only 0.2 million behind PlayStation 4’s peak in Q3 in FY2017.

Launch-aligned, PlayStation 5 is now just 1.5 million units behind PlayStation 4 during the same period of its lifecycle (76.5 million units). Sony has shipped 15.7 million PlayStation 5 consoles during the first three quarters of its current year, with a target of 18 million by the end of March.

The results include sales of PlayStation 5 Pro (which launched in November) for the first time, but Sony did not provide separate sales figures for the console.

Despite releasing a significant first-party game in the previous fiscal year in the form of Marvel Spider-Man 2, operating income increased 37% year-over-year, at about $766 million, which is a new record high for a third quarter. Sony said this was partly due to third-party games, subscriptions and microtransactions, and higher profitability from hardware.

Monthly active users across all platforms were up by 43% at 129 million users compared to the same point of the PS4 generation (90 million users). This is up 5% year-on-year, and the highest in PlayStation’s history, Sony said. Last year, the company said that about half of its monthly active users were on PS4.

According to the company, 42% of PS5 console sales during its latest quarter were to new users, which it said contributed “substantially” to the increase in active users.

Sony reported that sales for its Game and Network Services division were up 12% year-on-year, to about $761 million. As a result, it raised its sales revenue forecast by 3% for the current fiscal year, which ends in April 2025.

PlayStation Plus revenue increased by 20% year-on-year, which it said was mainly due to higher average revenue per user, due to a general shift to higher price tiers.

Sony’s Network services revenue – which encompasses PS Plus and advertising revenue – increased 28% year-on-year. Software sales (PS4 and PS5) increased 6.2 million year-over-year, to 95.9 million units. Digital software accounted for 74% of game sales, compared to 66% last year.

Commenting on its PlayStation business during a web call, the company highlighted the success of Astro Bot and Helldivers 2, which it said signified its intention to expand in the areas of family games and live service titles.

Looking ahead, Death Stranding 2 and Ghost of Yotei will release this year, alongside significant third-party titles like Monster Hunter Wilds and Grand Theft Auto 6. Sony said it had “high expectations” for the titles releasing in its next fiscal year, which runs from April 1.

Commenting on the results, Tokyo-based industry consultant Dr Serkan Toto told VGC: “I think a lot of people in gaming expected a soft Q3 for Sony, given the total absence of first-party blockbuster software. However, it looks like an especially strong Call Of Duty last year, and solid repeat sales helped Sony out this time.

“As far as we can see from the data, PS5 Pro likely sold pretty well, too. One big factor here, in my eyes, is the 129 million PlayStation online users, a very solid number. Q4 will likely be somber for Sony, but they can be pretty happy with this silent fiscal year overall.”

And I thought consoles were dying! Congrats, Sony!!

We should celebrate by playing some Age of Mythology together.

Damn. Hardware actually went up 16% YoY. IGN's probably doing one of these right about now.

That's how you sell consoles. Exclusives matters.

42% of new PS5 buyers are new users. Surely bunch of them are Xbots.

And yet still..

lol :P

Man people must feel silly saying the console market was STAGNANT!!!!!!

More like Xbox and MS is STAGNANT in making games people actually want to play. Oh........they can just buy another publisher with a dying brand anyway. COD barely making it on Steams Top most played games now!!!! LOSERS!

if someone just bought a ps5 has so many games to choose from. more AAA games since launch is at your disposal that most are on ps plus now.

funny how xbox fans keep saying spare some games. even though ps5 new users has so many.

Whole lotta buyer's remorse going on out there. lol :P

While that’s nice and all it still sounds like the PlayStation market is indeed stagnant. They’re even slightly behind the PS4 currently. The PS2 is still their best selling console and with game development costs having grown exponentially you can see the reason that they are moving beyond just having their games on the PlayStation platform.

A stellar quarter with both top-line and bottom-line growth.

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Revenue: +16.47%

Profit: +37.17%

Profit Margin: +1% or +16.67% growth

Hardware Units: +15.85% (Note: "More than 40% of users who purchased a PS5 during the quarter were new users.")

Hardware Revenue: +23.31%

Content & Services: +13.13%

Software Units: +6.91%

Software Revenue: +6.97%

Network Services: +28.96%

MAU: +6M or 4.88%

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Q1-Q3 2023 vs Q1-Q3 2024

Revenue: +14.14%

Profit: +74.86%

Profit Margin: +3.1% or +53.45% growth

Hardware Units: -4.27%

Software Units: +6.27%

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All these profits but still the exclusives looking bit light. We need a 1st/2nd party state of play. I am very patiently waiting for news of Death Stranding 2.

that's a lot of xboxstations.

Ms will be pleased!

Reminder that PS5 launched during the pandemic, had supply chain issues, and is more expensive than the PS4. It's performance is quite remarkable!

Sounds like the console is reaching new audiences

Still a lot of people who haven't switched over from last gen. We'll probably see more of that, and also, GTA 6 will be a big push too.

Hopefully more check out Playroom & Astro Bot, absolute gems.

People severely underestimate just how many people are still on PS4.

We're getting our first current gen only Assassin's Creed next month ffs.

But a couple folks here were saying consoles were doomed. What happened?!

I'm pretty sure it's not people upgrading from PS4 unless they somehow all didn't have a PSN account? Sounds like it's users that are new to PlayStation.

No wonder it's current gen leader....awwwww yeahhh

Xbox Q2

Xbox hardware -29%

Content/services +2%

Total gaming revenue -7%

PlayStation Q3

PS hardware +16%

Network Services +28%

Total gaming revenue +16.5%

But they want you to think Xbox is doing it the right way 😂🤣😂🤣

@girlusocrazy said:

@Nonstop-Madness said:

@SolidGame_basic said:

Still a lot of people who haven't switched over from last gen. We'll probably see more of that, and also, GTA 6 will be a big push too.

People severely underestimate just how many people are still on PS4.

We're getting our first current gen only Assassin's Creed next month ffs.

I'm pretty sure it's not people upgrading from PS4 unless they somehow all didn't have a PSN account? Sounds like it's users that are new to PlayStation.

Right.

The point trying to be made is that there's a decent amount of net new user *and* PS4 owners still in line to upgrade.

42% of 9.5M is ~4M. They added ~4M net new users to the PlayStation platform just on PS5. That's big.

@Nonstop-Madness: Oh I see, we'll see what happens but with GTA6 it's probably going to grow from that judging by how much GTAV still manages to sell. I wonder how the online will be received for 6 though. There's other big games dropping this year too.

Switch 2 is going to get a lot of attention though and I heard they have a full clip.

Damage Control much?

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Anything for that MS win because we all know that Xbox can’t get them there alone.

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So they're only halfway to catching up to the current gen leader in the Switch. And with only a few years left in this gen, Sony won't be able to catch Nintendo for winner of this gen.

It's kinda interesting that Nintendo will have won 2/3 last gens but for some reason the cows are celebrating 🤣🤣🤣

I mean, if you feel this way about Sony, you must feel 10X worse for Xbox 🤣 REKT

@SolidGame_basic: I don't celebrates sales, never have, and besides Phil has made sure Xbox won't sell into the future, it's a dead issue.

Besides you're the one who celebrates sales (hence this thread and your fellows cows) but have nothing to celebrate because the Switch is kicking the PS5's arse.

So tell me how do you feel knowing that Nintendo is beating up on Sony, and will have won 2/3 gens Solid, all teary eyed I'd guess 😭😭😭

Now that's what we call Bigly REKT 🤣🤣🤣

Your post makes zero sense. You said you don’t celebrate sales, but you are right now, I have not seen a better example of self rektage until now. REKT.

lolol :P

How am I celebrating sales? please explain that. I'm merely stating that you are even though Nintendo will have won 2/3 gens. That's not celebrating, that's pointing out a fact, but you don't even understand what the word rekt means, so...

You were just bragging about Switch winning even though Switch was released 3.8 years before the PS5 came out 🤣 I think you're beyond rekt at this point, you're DESTROYED

@ermacness:

Take the bait much

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New users making big share and sales not really outpacing ps4 also means they are losing lot of old users

@Nonstop-Madness said:

@girlusocrazy said:

@Nonstop-Madness said:

@SolidGame_basic said:

Still a lot of people who haven't switched over from last gen. We'll probably see more of that, and also, GTA 6 will be a big push too.

People severely underestimate just how many people are still on PS4.

We're getting our first current gen only Assassin's Creed next month ffs.

I'm pretty sure it's not people upgrading from PS4 unless they somehow all didn't have a PSN account? Sounds like it's users that are new to PlayStation.

Right.

The point trying to be made is that there's a decent amount of net new user *and* PS4 owners still in line to upgrade.

42% of 9.5M is ~4M. They added ~4M net new users to the PlayStation platform just on PS5. That's big.

Such an underwhelming console... It hasn't peaked my interest once since launch.

It doesn't sound like it:

Monthly active users across all platforms were up by 43% at 129 million users compared to the same point of the PS4 generation (90 million users). This is up 5% year-on-year, and the highest in PlayStation’s history, Sony said.

It sounds like they're growing their audience and reaching new gamers.

Here's my original post

"So they're only halfway to catching up to the current gen leader in the Switch. And with only a few years left in this gen, Sony won't be able to catch Nintendo for winner of this gen.

It's kinda interesting that Nintendo will have won 2/3 last gens but for some reason the cows are celebrating"

That's not celebrating, i'm CLEARLY stating the facts, my posts and yours are completely different. If only you could understand the difference.

Their MAU is at an all time high which means they aren't losing more than they are gaining.

Also, launched aligned, the PS5 has outpaced the PS4 every year expect for year 2 (2021). It's hard to say what type of momemtum the PS5 will have in the second half of the generation but chances are it does pretty well when we haven't even seen a full software shift to current gen and, there's still room to improve on hardware pricing, cannabilizing more Xbox market share etc.

Bait, damage control either or.

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@SecretPolice said:

@ermacness said:

@SecretPolice said:

Whole lotta buyer's remorse going on out there. lol :P

Damage Control much?

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lolol :P

So it is damage control.

And this is your coping mechanism for my call out.

Gotcha!

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Xbots trying to hide behind Nintendo's success end up taking the biggest Ls. Nintendo and Sony did this without stupidly buying publishers to try and save their failing brands. Xbox is easily their own worst enemy.

Always a good SW staple to see celebrations in a sales thread from folks with their allegiances to their favorite inanimate object.

@BenjaminBanklin: indeed, we’ve heard it all by now “but, but Nintendo is winning!”, “who cares about sales!” 😆

Man, you cows are clueless, stating facts is not hiding behind anything, cheering anything, it's acknowledging the truth, maybe you should try it sometime.

With the PS6 being at least 999$ or 999€ the ps5 will be the most sold console of all time. Since people will not buy a 4 digit priced console, its the territory of pc rigs