Sony: PlayStation 4 Shipments Hit 13.5M Units, 1 Billion Hours Spent Online - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 November 2014 / 7,356 Views
Sony Computer Entertainment of America President and CEO Shawn Layden is celebrating the one year anniversary of the PlayStation 4 with the release of an infographic in a blog post. This is also less than a month away from the 20th anniversary of the original PlayStation.
"It’s hard to believe that 12 short months ago, the PlayStation Nation finally got their hands on the most powerful and socially connected gaming platform ever created," read the blog post. "With blockbuster games from our Worldwide Studios like inFAMOUS Second Son, MLB 14 The Show, Killzone Shadow Fall, The Last of Us Remastered and new innovative features like Share Play and SHAREfactory, PS4 has had an unprecedented first year!"
The infographic shows that Sony has shipped 13.5 million units worldwide since its release. There has also been more than 100 billion hours spent playing the PlayStation 4 online,as well as 530 million presses on the Share Button.
There are now 7.9 million PlayStation Plus subscribers, which is up 270 percent since the release of the PlayStation 4. There has been 56 million unique active users on the PlayStation Network and September, 2014 was the biggest month ever for the PSN.
In the first year for the PlayStation 4, hardware sales generated more revenue in its first year than any other gaming platform.
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It's 13.5M as of September the 30th
A bit of a typo, it's 1 billion hours on the PS4 not 100 billion.
A fantastic achievement and they might just reach 20m shipped this holiday :).
Let me get this straight. PS4 has shipped 13.5 as of sept 30 and vgchartz says 13M sold. Xbox One has shipped 10M units and VGChartz say 6.7.... 500k on shelves ps4, 3,000,000 Xbox ones on shevles. Seems legit William..
Most powerful gaming platform? PC says hi.
It's been a long time for the 13.5 shipped.
Pretty pathetic plus numbers. If it's a 270% increase, that means there were only about 2.1 million plus users on the PS3 with 80 million ps3's sold and they only increased 5.8 million users for the ps4 after making online a plus requirement
16-17 million units by year's end!!!
Now SONY claims to have shipped 13.5 million PS4s as of October 31st.
That would mean VGChartz are seriosly overtracking... by as much as 15%.
As already noted, this is for the 30th of September, when VGC had the PS4 numbers much lower. This is also well in advance of the upswing in holiday shipments (which explain MS's recent jump to 9m+ shipments).
All-in-all, VGC's numbers appear rather accurate.
13.5 million shipped, I guess that puts an end to some of the silly statements on VgChartz claiming PS4 is massive undertracked
first!
Its not overtracked. This is through september.
