ThePS5turns three later this year, but largely due to shortages for its first two years, not only are its sales numbers not slowing down, they’re speeding up at an impressive rate. In fact,PlayStation’s newest console has been so readily available to find for the first three months of 2023, it just set a new record for the most consoles sold in a single quarter.Sonyrevealed via its latestconsolidated financial resultsthat it shipped 6.3 million PS5s during the first quarter of 2023. Not only is that a new record, regardless of platform creator, but it has smashed thePS4’s record for a single quarter. The PS5’s sales are naturally being directly compared to the PS4 since it was the previous PlayStation and easily cleared 100 million sold by the time the PS5 launched.RELATED:We Don’t Need A PS5 Pro YetThe PS4’s best quarter saw it sell three million consoles, so its younger sibling has managed to more than double that record. The last-gen console is still able to hold one thing over the PS5’s proverbial head despite having its quarterly record smashed, though. While the PS5 has shifted 38.3 million units to date, moving it past the Mega Drive and theN64and into the top 20 best-selling consoles of all time, at the same time in its life cycle, the PS4 had sold 40 million.
The PS4 being ahead of the PS5 at the same time in their respective stays on the market is, of course, mostly down to the aforementioned shortages for the latter early on. This will likely be the last time, at least for a while, that’s the case as the PS5 continues to sell well, break records, and most likely surpass the pace of the PS4. Whether it settles on a higher number than its predecessor will be the real test. Topping 117 million sold, the PS4 sits comfortably in the top five best-selling consoles of all time, only outsold by one other PlayStation, thePS2.
As the PS5 continues to break sales records and those who have been trying to get one for more than two years can finally do so without waiting in endless queues andresorting to scalpers, PlayStation appears to be planning its mid-gen upgrade. Rumors of a newer versioncomplete with a detachable disc drivewere ramped up this week asSony filed a patentfor what appears to be the drive in question. That also got people thinking about the potential of a PS5 Slim, a listing for whichmysteriously popped up on an Australian retail sitelast month.
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