Total PlayStation 5 Sales Hit 61.7 Million Units

Sony sold 2.4 million PlayStation 5 consoles in the most recent quarter, down from 3.3 million a year ago, bringing cumulative unit sales to 61.7 million.

The milestone was announced as part of the firm’s latest financial report: Sony earned a net income of ¥231.64 billion (about $1.6 billion) on revenues of ¥3 trillion ($20.4 billion) in the quarter ending June 30. Those figures represent gains of 2 and 6 percent, respectively, year-over-year (YOY).

Sony sold fewer PlayStation 5 consoles in the quarter than the 3 million units analysts expected, and less than it had in the year-ago quarter. But its PlayStation business still outperformed expectations overall thanks to the success of the game Helldivers 2, with 12 million units sold, and favorable exchange rates that inflated Japan’s struggling currency. Sony’s Music division also performed better than expected, and Sony raised its total sales estimates for the fiscal year.

Sony’s Game & Network Services division contributed an operating income of ¥65.2 billion on revenues of ¥865 billion (up 16 and 93 percent, respectively). This is Sony’s biggest business, and it accounts for one-third of Sony’s total revenues, excluding its financial services (about 28 percent otherwise).

In addition to the console sales, Sony sold 53.6 million software units (down 5.4 percent YOY), 6 million of which were first-party titles (down 9 percent), and 80 percent of which were sold digitally. Sony now claims 116 million monthly active users (MAUs) on the PlayStation Network, up 7.4 percent from one year ago.