PlayStation 4 Ships 60 Million Units

As part of Sony’s earnings report for the fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended March 31, the company announced it shipped 2.9 million PlayStation 4 units the past three months. During the same time period last year it is up from the 2.3 million units shipped in 2016. For the full fiscal year (April 1, 2016 through March 31, 2017), Sony shipped 20 million PS4 units, up from 17.7 million units during the prior fiscal year.

Sony has now shipped 60 million PS4 consoles around the world, up from the 57.1 million figure that was announced in March. Sixty million is precisely the number that Sony forecasted it would ship by the end of the fiscal year. Sony’s video game division, Game & Network Services, saw revenue jump 6.3 percent year-over-year to $14.73 billion. Sony said the uptick in sales was primarily due to a spike in PS4 game sales, along with hardware sales also rising year-over-year.
Operating income for the Game & Network Services division rose to $1.21 billion, an increase that Sony attributed to “cost reductions” for the PS4, as well as the previously mentioned jump in PS4 game sales.
The future looks bright for Sony and the PlayStation 4. The console has some work to do to catch the PlayStation 3 which is at 80 million shipped.
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