PlayStation 5 Surpasses 32 Million Units Shipped After Its Best Quarter Yet

Sony’s latest financial results covering Quarter 3 of Fiscal Year 2022, which consists of the last three months of the year, reveal the PlayStation 5 had its best quarter on the market yet. 

The company has surpassed 32 million PS5 units shipped, sitting roughly at 32.1 million, after shipping 7.1 million during the last three months of 2022. This is not a sales-through figure so there may still be some consoles on shelves. However, a company can ship more consoles when there is demand so the vast majority of the shipped consoles will have been sold. 

PlayStation was just as successful in first-party sales, selling 20.8 millions during Q3 2022 (which is more than twice what they sold the previous quarter of 2021). Out of those 20.8 mil, roughly 11 million were of God of War: RagnarokThis was the big console holiday release. 

Including both first- and third-party applications, the PS5 was sold at 86.5 millions units. It is still more than Q3 fiscal year 2021 (92.7million), but that’s no less impressive. Sixty-two percent of the software sold this past quarter was digital. 

PlayStation Plus subscribers reached 46.4 Million in Q3. This is an increase from Q2’s 45.4 Million but lower than Q1’s 47.3million. With 48 million subscriber, the PS5 reached its peak during its lifetime.

Q3 saw 112 million PlayStation 2 users reach a record number. This is an increase of 10 million over the previous quarter and approximately 1 million higher than in the same quarter 2021. 

All told, Q3 of Fiscal Year 2022 was the PS5’s best quarter yet. 

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