PS4 Lifetime Sales Top 91.6 Million Units by End of 2018 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 January 2019 / 3,422 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced worldwide PlayStation 4 sales have surpassed 91.6 million units as of December 31, 2018. More than 5.6 million units were sold during the 2018 holiday season.
More than 50.7 million PlayStation 4 games were sold worldwide during the holiday season to bring the lifetime games sold on the console at 876 million units.
"Thanks to the continued support from our fans during the holiday season, we are pleased to announce that PS4 has reached 91.6 million units globally. We are also happy to announce that the monthly active users of PlayStation Network continues to show strong growth, and has surpassed 90 million as of end of November 2018," said John Kodera, President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment.
"I would like to express my deepest gratitude to our passionate community around the globe, and our partners, for helping us achieve these milestones. This year, we will bring more enhanced experiences to our fans along with a highly anticipated lineup of games that are only possible on PS4. As we look toward the next PS4 milestone, SIE will continue to evolve, and we will further expand the platform to deliver the best interactive entertainment experiences to the world."
Marvel’s Spider-Man launched in September 2018 and has sold over nine million units worldwide as of November 25, 2018.
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Man! Almost 10 games sold per console. PS4 will sell more than 1 billion games pretty soon.
That's crazy! Does anyone know if they count PS+ downloads as sales?
That puts digital sales around one third, which sounds about right.
This year Will surpass the sales of wii and the first play station.
Remember when people said console gaming would die after the 7th gen? lol
console gaming hasn't died but if you look at software sold the PS360 sold around 2 billion units compared to around 1.2 billion for the PS4XBONE so there has been a falling off, but increased services seems to have picked up the shortfall .
Deserved for the best console of this generation !
The king. Congrats to sony and insomniac.
It seems VGC are pretty spot on then 🙂. I assume this means sell-through, not shipped? Sony usually announce sell-through numbers.
One word to describe Spider-Man? Surprising. Never I would've expected for it to sell that much in a short time span. Guaranteed sequel, which by the way, can't wait for it to come out.
No words about Spider Man 9 million sales already?
PS4 has been worth it. I just got a new PC so I have the option for more PC gaming. But I still see the PS4 as my primary gaming source.
90 million active PSN users (November) with 91.6 million PS4 units sold (end of December)? Are so many people still using PSN on PS3 and PSV? Or do 99 % PS4 users have PSN?
BOOOOOOOM.
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