By Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has announced today that the PlayStation 4 has sold over 40M units worldwide as of May 22nd, 2016. They have also sold over 271.9M units of software world wide. This brings the attach rate for software to 7.
“We are truly grateful for the enormous support from our fans and partners across the globe, which helped us achieve this significant milestone in such a short span of time,”
said Andrew House, President and Global CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment.
“We will strive to deliver even more exciting gaming experiences to our users, further driving the momentum and accelerating the expansion of the PS4 platform and its business this fiscal year by offering an unparalleled line-up of games, bringing our virtual reality system, PlayStation VR, to market and providing ground-breaking features and network services.”
The PlayStation 4 is already the fastest selling console in Sony’s history, outpacing even the PlayStation 2 in its first 3 years. The PlayStation 2 went on to sell 155m units worldwide.
Sony expects the PlayStation 4 to continue to sell well. Their recent Financial Forecast predicts the company will sell through another 20m units for the 2016 financial year, which is higher than the total units of PS4s sold this past financial year.
With the Playstation VR launching this holiday and a rumored “PS4 Neo” on the way there is no reason to believe they will miss their projections.
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