The tweets:
Sony says the PlayStation 5 shipped 4.5 million units as of December 31, 2020.
There were also 18.4 million first party games sold across PS4 and PS5 in the quarter ending Dec 31, 2020.
For reference, the PlayStation 4 also shipped 4.5 million units in the same 2013 quarter. pic.twitter.com/xgERRQ3wJY
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) February 3, 2021
The number of active PlayStation network users across all PlayStation devices has reached 114 million.
The total number of paid PlayStation Plus subscribers is now 47.4 million which is up from 38.8 million in the same quarter last year.
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) February 3, 2021
The PlayStation 4 only shipped 1.4 million units in the holiday quarter, down from 6 million last year. Reflecting lower demand but also a shift in manufacturing prioritisation to PS5.
The total sell in of PlayStation 4 is currently at 115.1 million units.
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) February 3, 2021
47,4m users with PS Plus accounts.
PS4 only shipped abit over 1,4m this holiday quarter.
PS4 sell in is at 115,1m as of dec 31st. (guessing thats when nrs are from)
PS5 shipping 4,5m+ as of dec 31st.
Throughts:
Not much really unexpected.
Though sell through of PS4's in this time is really low..... lower than I thought it would be (stock issues?).
Only 115,1m PS4's total sold though to consumers.
At its current rate, will it even hit 130m? before they stop production? I'm starting to have doubts (when I was pretty sure, it would years before)
Also selling more than 18m games in 3 months time is pretty neat.
Atleast people with PS4's are enjoying games.
*edit: Xbox News:
Welp. It's already happeninghttps://t.co/2LpY0A7LrR
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) February 3, 2021
Comment on retweeting this:
Xbox One sold over 3 mil and Series S/X sold more so 3.1-3.3 range most likely
— Sam (@irishfansam) February 3, 2021
ZhugeEX says the takeway should instead be that XB1 shipped ~3,9m, and sold ~3m.
Not How much the series X/S did.
