Sony: PS4 Sales Top 50 Million Units - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 December 2016 / 17,005 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced PlayStation 4 sales have topped 50 million units sold to consumers worldwide as of December 6. More than 369.6 million games at retail and digitally have been sold on the PlayStation 4.
Black Friday was the strongest in PlayStation history. This includes sales of the PlayStation 4 Pro.
"We’re truly delighted that the PS4 community continues to flourish since launch three years ago." said Andrew House, President and Global CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment. "With tremendous support from our fans and partners across the globe, this year we were able to deliver an unprecedented lineup of hardware such as the new slimmer PS4, PS4 Pro and PlayStation VR. We will continue to provide the best gaming experiences available through our ground-breaking software lineup and network services, as we focus on accelerating our business and expanding the PS4 ecosystem."
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Still holding strong. Where's xbox's numbers?
Over 500 million miles driven in Forza and Almost 20 million hours of loading in The Witcher 3 has been enjoyed on Xbox live in 2016
Let's keep it at somewhere around the 25 million mark and a trillion bullets shot in Halo 5
@Ganoncrotch - *Slow claps. You, sir or madam, win the internet.
Haha, I accept all major credit cards and bitcoins as a reward!
Ahahahaha I'm dead
But it doesn't count unless they win NPD in off peak months!
And this is prior to The Last of US 2 announcement...
Absolutly massive numbers. After this Q4 Sony will easily pass the 2:1 lead ahead of Xbox One.
Only gonna get cheaper with a bigger library. I think it can top the Wii and PS1.
PS4 will easily pass those two; 120 + million, lifetime.
LESSS GO SONY!!!! WOOO!!!
Who wants to bet Microsoft will come out and say "Best Black Friday in Xbox history!!!" lol. Same ish every year.
Congratulation sony:)
Amazing, it would need to have pretty shit legs in 2018 for it not to beat PS1 & Wii. Here's hoping PS4 can manage 110-115M
Beastly.
