And of every five PlayStation 4s Sony sells, Layden says one is a PlayStation 4 Pro, a laudable achievement given its $100 price premium, enthusiast target demographic and the nascency of the 4K television market (where it's real allure lies).

"It is way ahead of our expectations," adds Sony global sales chief Jim Ryan. "As with PSVR, and I suppose in forecasting these things we haven't done a very good job, the product is in desperately short supply. So that's one-in-five under severe constraint."

"All of the rumors of the demise of the console are very much premature," says Layden. "In fact if you're watching [sales tracker] NPD for PS4 and Xbox One sales, you put those together and console gaming has never been as big and vibrant as it is right now. And that's just here in the States." Zip across the pond, and the story tilts further in Sony's favor. "It's been pleasing that in North America, we've been 2-to-1 against Xbox," says Ryan. "But in Europe, it's really been fortress PlayStation by at least 3-to-1 in unit sales."

"It's also the breadth of type of games," he continues. "And once you get up in the heady heights of 100 million units, you're talking of a different audience altogether, where having this range of stuff like Detroit: Become Human and FIFA and Call of Duty and Star Wars, it makes the job a whole lot easier."

https://www.polygon.com/2017/6/5/15728406/ps4-sales-stats

http://time.com/4804768/playstation-4-ps4-pro-psvr-sales/

Great! Loving my pro so far!

Great to hear im thinking about getting a pro even sony will announce the ps5 this year

Skipped the PS4 pro in favour of the Scorpio if this model holds up I will just get the PS5 and then the "next" mid cycle xbox after that.

Either way the Pro seems like a great deal for people buying a new ps4 as an upgrade it hasn't been for me since its not my main platform but I am sure if someone plays all their games on PS4 its worth it

Way ahead of their expectations? What were they expecting?

Probably less than those people who want to inflate expectations in order to then discredit the sales numbers when they better expectation.

That's pretty good.

If Sony can now add in a 4K player I'm sure it'd sell a lot more.

Yeah sure, they will announce a ps5 when the ps4 sales are very high, Fuck logic.

They won' annonce ps5 this year, or even next year.

They will also demolish Moore's Law as they launch a new consoles 3 or 4 times more powerful than Scorpio by 400 dollars since anything less than that would not look next-gen at all. Somebody at Sony will win a Nobel prize in Physics for that.