Record Amount of 3.4 Million PS5 Units Delivered to Stores
DigiTimes reports that Sony has shipped 3.4 million units of PlayStation 5 to the stores. This data, although unconfirmed, seems to be in line with the information provided so far.
Among the many inconveniences caused by the coronavirus epidemic, there were also those that mainly affected gamers. The problems with the availability of GPUs and consoles have come to the fore, as anyone trying to purchase the new PlayStation has found out. Nevertheless, Sony has allegedly shipped 3.4 million PS5s to the stores in the first four weeks. DigiTimes (via Serkan Toto on Twitter) reports that in 2021 the company plans to reach 18 million "sold" consoles.
It should be noted that the credibility of DigiTimes is not absolute - the Taiwanese website used to post dubious reports as confirmed facts so often that it has earned a parody account on Twitter with the much-vaunted name "Fake Digitimes". It's also hard to believe the brand's alleged record sales of PlayStation 5 in a context of severely limited availability. The PS4 needed a month and a half under much more favorable conditions to ship 4.2 million units.
It is fair to say, however, that Sony itself recently spoke of the 'best sales' of the console in the history of PlayStation (albeit without any specific data). In July the interest in the PS5 was expected to be so strong that the company increased its forecast for the number of devices shipped to stores by March 2021 from 6 million to 10 million. Of course, this does not confirm DigiTimes' reports, but it can be assumed that even if the data provided by the website is not accurate, it does not deviate too much from the console's actual results. How many of these consoles have actually reached buyers is a different matter.
