Sony announced that PlayStation 5 has reached 54.8 million consoles distributed from November 2020 to December 31, 2023. In the last quarter the company distributed 8.2 million PS5 and PS5 Slim consoles, 1.1 million more than in the same period in 2022.
As of December 31, 2023 they are there 123 million monthly active users on PlayStation Networkan increase of 11 million compared to the 112 million monthly users registered in December 2022.
In the quarter from 1 September to 31 December 2023, A total of 89.7 million PS4 and PS5 games have been soldup 3.2 million from the 86.5 million copies sold in the same quarter of 2022. Of these, 16.2 million are first-party games, down 4.6 million from the same period in the previous fiscal year.
66% of the games were sold in digital format, recording an annual growth of +4%, Sony then announced that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 reached and exceeded the quota 10 million copies distributed as of February 4, 2024as it makes the Spider-Man game the most successful PS5 exclusive ever (God of War Ragnarok was also released on PS4).
Finally, also on this occasion Sony has not communicated the updated number of PlayStation Plus subscribers.