Just a couple of months before Sony launches the PlayStation 5, the gaming division has recorded its best-ever first quarter as far as financial earnings go. The sales of both PlayStation 4 consoles and software are up, leading to PlayStation's best operating profit during any quarter seen to date. And in terms of raw numbers, that represents 1.9 million consoles sold during the first quarter of the fiscal year for 2020, while PS4 software sales reached an incredible 91 million. Of course, the coronavirus pandemic has played a large part in this as families were stuck at home.
Of those 91 million PS4 games sold, 18.5 million of them were first-party titles and a whopping 74% of all those transactions were for the digital version of a game rather than a physical copy. The total number of PlayStation Plus subscribers has also increased to 44.9 million, representing just under half of the 113 million actively monthly users of the PlayStation Network. Sony highlights The Last of Us: Part II in aiding these record profit margins.
To date, there are now roughly 112.3 million PS4 consoles in homes. This makes for very, very positive reading as the next generation draws ever closer.
[source sony.net, via resetera.com]
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Dreams. Iron Man. Nioh 2. Persona 5 Royal. Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Last of Us pt. 2. Ghost of Tsushima. It's no surprise with such a stonking line up of exclusive titles this year.
Well done Sony, and deserved as well, some great games in thay period.
That's a lot of playstations 😃
@Rob_230 Yup, playstation exclusives is absolute bonkers in this gen.
Great news and well done Sony, going out of this generation with a bang!
It does surprise me how many of the sales are digital, I will always buy physical if I can but I am old school in that respect, looking at these figures I expect the digital PS5 to potentially out sell the full fat PS5!
Honestly this really isn’t that surprising. Sony’s been absolutely killing it in the last days of PS4. The momentum going into PS5 is ridiculous and completely dwarfs where they were this same time last gen. It’ll be really interesting to see how this plays out early ps5 days.
@Mostik I have started to buy both. I tend to buy digital if its a game i'm not to sure of (and usually wait for it to be on sale) then if I like it, I'll buy a cheap physical copy (usually second hand) cause I like to own my games outright. Unless it's something like FF7 remake where I did it the other way round. Knew I was going to love it so bought the physical first, then when it goes down to a decent dirt cheap price on digital, I'll pick it up then. LOL
With all the heavy hitters out, I think PS4 will settle for around 120 mil. Don't see it gaining much, unless they reduce the price and somehow make it kids friendly for parents to gift to their children. Pretty mind boggling numbers.
Very impressive numbers. The amount of PS Plus subs and the 74% digital figures alone must be such a crucial part of that. Sony have absolutely owned this generation, amazing to think how different it's been to the PS3 era.
@Iroha I am the same in that I like to own the physical copy and have it to hand especially with the steel cases and special editions etc, I think also coming from a time when we would lend games to each other it is just how I prefer to buy my media, same with music and films!
But Xbox fanboys keep telling me Playstation is finished?
i can't wait to see the damage control the Xbots are going to do after this and how phil spencer is the second coming to jesus LMAO.
@East76landS @Diamond1980 Thing is whenever they talk about Xbox it's always ohhh 'gamepass this, gamepass that' but quite frankly gamepass is absolute trash. Full of 6 and 7 with a few gems. Out of all the games on it, I'd maybe interested in trying out 5or 6 tops. I have enough subscription fees (around £50 a month for all the different media) don't need another one. What I want is decent games. If and when xbox finally start publishing some good games, maybe then I'll be interested.
Also, I'd rather own my games. Games go on and off sub services so quick. It's the biggest con of the millenium. Subscription services are not worth the money.
the thing about subscribing to ps plus is that you getting good deals all the time on game especially first party titles.
where as in Microshaft world nothing but a Gamepass that's full of shovelware and probably ads are in it as well!
Game Pass sounds like a good deal, just like those DVD bins with all the $2 movies sounds like a good deal. Then you start looking at what's in the bin and come away with a hard pass.
@Diamond1980 whats this deals with gold thing then, looks a lot like what we get with PS plus monthly discounts??
@lacerz true except that game pass has risen from $40 to $60.
and it's a glorified rental.
@InvaderJim gold was canceled because it was a better deal than game pass
Soon..."Welcome to the PS5, Only $699" Then SONY will reach new LOWS D I hope not tho
As pointed out plenty of times before. Not bad considering many thought going into this gen that home consoles were done. Hopefully PS5 will keep the momentum rolling.
@lacerz absolutely, i have a big enough backlog as it is thanks to ps plus and the brilliant PSN sale reductions....last thing I want is to be paying a lot more each month for a big bucket of trash games to sort through for the decent ones before they disappear off it.
PS plus won't be going anywhere, these figures prove that.
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