The best holiday ever for PS5, with a total sales photo of 75 million

PlayStation 5 There was just the biggest quarter, with 9.5 million units sold between October 2024 and December 2024.

This brought the PS5's overall sales to 75 million, compared to the same period last year, while Sony's gaming business increased by 37%.

Sony has now bundled sales of the PS5 Pro into the overall hardware number, so we can't separate the success of its newly upgraded console. But the company stressed that all PS5 sales are now expected to be 18 million sales by the end of March 2025, only behind the 1.5 million units of the previous PS4, which is only 1.5 million units, and the unit is in the same 76.5 million units were sold at the moment. Its production cycle.

In its services, monthly active users also reached 129 million, a year-on-year increase of 5%, and marked a new milestone, with overall sales of games and consoles also rising by 16%. 42% of PS5 sales are for new PlayStation network users. Sony's big release in the quarter was Astro Bot, which has sold 1.5 million copies.

Sony increased its profit forecast by 2% in the “significant growth” reported by the Gaming and Web Services division this quarter.

Sony did not comment on its widespread power outage last week, Take its PlayStation web service offline for almost a whole day. Sony ultimately believes that the 24-hour power outage is an “operational problem” and provides PlayStation Plus members serve for five additional days compensate.

Sony's Gameplay 2025 Broadcast Highlighted games will be available to PS5 next year, including Housemarque's Saros and The days have been fixed. Sony has it too Yotei's Ghost and Death Stranding 2 Coming out later in 2025.

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