PlayStation 5 confirms over 40 million consoles sold

Although this generation of consoles has had a hard time taking off, PlayStation 5 is already at cruising speed. Sony has just confirmed today that the platform has exceeded 40 million units sold worldwide. The numbers are commendable if we take into account the pandemic, the component crisis, and the short age of PS5, which was released to the world in November 2020. This is how Jim Ryan, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, has spoken about the figure:

“Despite the unprecedented challenges of COVID, our teams and our partners worked diligently to deliver PS5 on time. We continued to face headwinds with the pandemic, and it took months for supply chains to normalize so we could have the inventory to keep up with demand. For more months than I care to remember, we kept thanking our community for their patience while working through these issues. But now PS5 supply is well-stocked and we are seeing that pent up demand finally being met.”

“With the support of PlayStation fans, we have reached a milestone of 40 million PS5 consoles sold through* to gamers since launch. Thank you so much to our community of gamers – without you this would have been an impossible task”

“PS5 launched with the best catalog of games in our history and the momentum for great content keeps getting stronger. From innovative indie games to AAA blockbusters, there are more than 2,500 PS5 games now available, and it has never been a better time to experience PS5 In the last two months alone, we have seen incredible new games from our partners, including Final Fantasy XVI, Diablo IV, and Street Fighter 6.”

The best-selling consoles in history

This is how the historical sales of consoles look like by taking into account the 40 million PS5 sold.

PS5 release schedule

Surely those 40 million will grow when the following games arrive at PS5 by the end of 2023. This is the console’s remaining release schedule for the remainder of 2023:

Source | Sony Interactive Entertainment