Sony has just received the best holiday season from the point of view of sales of PlayStation 5 consoles from 9.5 million sold for the last three months (2024 Q3), the company announced in its EarningsThis is 1.3 million more than sold in The same quarter last year (Its previous best festive quarter) and increases PS5 sales by 74.9 million. Launch PlayStation 5 Pro Last fall, probably provided an impulse per quarter, but Sony did not break the numbers for this console on purpose.
The record quarter means that the PS5 is only 1.5 million units, where the PS4 was at the same time in the life cycle. It also prompted Sony to a higher 469.3 billion yen (3.05 billion dollars) (all units are included).
The company also saw a sales growth of games up to 95.9 million units sold in the 3rd quarter of 2024 compared to 89.7 million in the previous quarter, despite the huge drop in sales of the first side. This increased the income of software for gaming software up to 784 billion yen ($ 5.1 billion) compared to 733 billion yen in 3 quarters of 2023. Sony shouted success on her web broadcasting ASTRO BOT And HELLDIVERS 2IN confirming his intention to expand their proposals for family and lively service (despite Adoring the recent games In the last category). Meanwhile, the monthly active users of PlayStation Network (PSN) have grown from 123 to 129 million.
Looking into the future, Sony said that this year the sales of the game “High expectations”, including first -class titles Death Stroy 2 And The ghost of the yotaBoth were installed in 2025. We will also see several large third -party launches, especially Grand Theft Auto 6 It will be established to arrive in the fall of 2025.