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CosmicSex on 29 March 2023
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Zippy6 said:
PotentHerbs said:

Massive month for the PlayStation 5! Even if Sony only manage to ship 5M this quarter, that would be higher than any non holiday month from the Switch, and would be the highest non holiday quarter for PlayStation consoles.

Hmmm... I thought that 6m would be an all-time record for Calendar Q1 but after looking into it it seems PS2 managed 6.08m in 2005. Here's the best shipments for this quarter from a few consoles.

6.08m PS2 (2005)
5.81m DS (2008)
5.43m Wii (2009)
4.73m Switch (2021)
3.42m PSP (2008)
3.00m PS4 (2014)
2.33m PS3 (2008)
2.10m 3DS (2012)

So if Sony met their forecast of 6m units it would be the 2nd best 1st quarter of a calendar year ever. I don't know if they will meet that or not but I think they can break the 5m mark which would still be only behind the DS/Wii/PS2's best.

I think Trunks or someone calculated that in order to reach the goal Sony would need to push 6.2 million shipments which would be just over 100k more than the 2005 PS2 Q1 record.  So yes it would be the 1st best not second.