Despite slow sales recently, Sony has sold 100 million Playstation 4 consoles. That makes the PlayStation 4 the fastest-selling console ever to reach that number. Just last quarter, they announced that the company had sold 96.8 million devices since the launch of the console.
From the 31st of March to 30th of June this year, Sony said that they had sold around 3.2 million units. Combine those numbers together; we have the total number of 100 million devices sold.
Reaching 100 Million
The figures mean that Sony reached this mark with the PS4 after 5 years 7 months after its official release. Moreover, that is 2 months faster than the Wii of Nintendo.
The company also said that this is the first time people purchase more games digitally than physical copies. That trend has been going on for a while already.
Despite being 5 years old already, the sale figure of PS4 has never been slowing down until recently. Last year they sold 17.8 million devices, down 1.2 million compared to the figure for 2017. However, the sale number dives noticeably in the last quarter. Sony has also issued a warning saying that they expect sales in 2019 will decrease more than in their original forecast from last quarter.
It is to be expected that PS4 sales will slowly demise because Sony will launch their next-gen console PlayStation 5 next fall. This new console will feature SSD storage, 8K support, and backward-compatibility with PS4.