Sony Confirms PS5 is Most Successful PlayStation with $136B in Sales So Far

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JRPGfan said:

Pemalite said:

Even more reason to be against price rises on hardware and software... Just confirms that companies are not "doing it tough" that they are indeed "more profitable than ever" and are still continuing to break their departments "financial records".

I am going to guess a chunk of this increase is also due to sales outside of the Playstation ecosystem... Namely PC.

I think I heard someone on the net say it was roughly 2% of their revenue (abit less).....

Sony is not really setting the world on fire, by porting things to PC.

2% is 2.76~ Billion.

That's enough to fund the development of half a dozen exclusives and their advertising costs... Which is probably more than what Sony has even released for PS5 up to this point.

Insignificant next to 138~ billion, but not insignificant in pure monetary terms.

Sony did however with three ports... (God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Marvel's Spider-Man) generate approximately $700 million in a fiscal year, so that's a good return on what is essentially a low investment on already made content.

Consequently PC games tend to have long legs with old games that are decades old hitting the top of the sales charts during sale seasons, which probably says more about PC gamers and their desire for a good bargain.