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News hardware & software 30 October 2019, 14:25

PS4 Becomes Second Best-selling Console Ever; Sony is Disappointed

Sony revealed a financial report, according to which PS4 became the second best-selling home console in history. PS2 is still in the first place. The Japanese company expected better results.

In terms of sales, PS4 is not far behind PS2.

Sony has released its report for the second quarter of 2019 (from July 1 to September 30). It shows that PlayStation 4 is still very popular - the device has just become the second best-selling home console in history. Having sold 102.8 million items, it lost only to PS2 (155 million), while the third place is taken by the first PlayStation (102.49 million).

The result seems to be very good, but it does not seem to satisfy Sony at all. According to the report, 2.8 million copies were sold in the second quarter of 2019, which is a result worse by 1.1 million than in the corresponding period of 2018. This may have been due to the delay in the debut of The Last of Us: Part II and the official release date of PlayStation 5. Probably many people interested in buying the console decided to wait for the next generation.

Sony's financial results for the second quarter of 2019.

This, of course, did not escape Sony's attention, which decided to lower its sales forecasts for the period from April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020. Initially, the company predicted that 15 million PS4 units would be sold to buyers, now it expects a result of 13.5 million copies.

The sale of games also declined. In the second quarter of 2019, it amounted to "only" 61.3 million copies (of which 37% was digital distribution), i.e. 13.8 million less than in the previous year. On the other hand, the interest in the PS Plus subscription, which is used by 36.9 million subscribers, looks better. There's an increase of 2.6 million. Detailed information can be found here.

  1. Sony official homepage

Krzysztof Kaluzinski

Krzysztof Kaluzinski

At GRYOnline.pl, works in the Newsroom. He is not afraid to tackle various topics, although he prefers news about independent productions in the style of Disco Elysium. In his childhood, he wrote fantasy stories, played a lot on Pegasus, and then on a computer. He turned his passion into a profession as an editor of a gaming portal run with a friend, as well as a copywriter and advisor in a console store. He doesn't care for remakes and long-running series. Since childhood, he wanted to write a novel, although he is definitely better at creating characters than plot. That's probably why he fell in love with RPGs (paper and virtual). He was raised in the 90s, to which he would gladly return. Loves Tarantino movies, thanks to Mad Max and the first Fallout he lost himself in post-apo, and Berserk convinced him to dark fantasy. Today he tries his hand at e-commerce and marketing, while also supporting the Newsroom on weekends, which allows him to continue cultivating old passions.

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