I got downvoted a lot saying Horizon boned hard, I wasn't that much of the mark though I think. Well at least it seems to make more sense to move on too live service games for PlayStation though.

Both Horizon and GT7 released during the quarter January-March 2022, the first party games sold during that quarter was about 14.5 million units, up 6.6 million units from the same quarter in 2021.

Elden Ring is a third party game not included in the first party numbers. 

Without official numbers, we can’t really say if both games have good sales or not.

But again, is VGC.

None of these games released in this quarter. They released in February and March.

If you add up all shipment numbers Sony reorted over the years for each quarter you get 117.2mil. A rounding error that some sites decided to ignore despite Sony reporting 117mil.

The low shipments of hardware finally caught up with them. If Sony actually shipped enough consoles as usual, then software sales would follow the usual trend.

If PS4 had shipped 3m more by this point and PS5 had shipped 4m more by this point then that is 7m PS owners that would be buying software right about now.

Sales for PS5 are up 100K yoy and 400K above the previous quarter but down 500K on PS4's Q1 full second fiscal year. I really hope Sony are stockpiling PS5's for a massive 8m to 9m Q3 holiday to get close to their projection. They didn't stockpile any PS5's at all last year with holiday quarter sales being slightly above regular quarter sales. Also now that Sony hasn't updated PS4 sales means that it sold less than 100K and is dead, killed by Sony themselves.

A couple of years back Sony re-adjusted PS4 total sales knocking 200K off the total, 100K  off FY 2013-14 from 7.6m to 7.5m and 100K off FY 2014-15 from 14.9m to 14.8m. Seems some places didn't adjust their numbers which is why their total adds up to 117.1m instead of 116.9m.

With sufficient supply, this thing could’ve been at 35-40 million by now.

I think it is likely that GT7 and HFW sales are softer than Sony was hoping, but I also don’t think it’s a problem with those games, but rather an industry wide trend. Every major player is reporting moderate to major declines in software sales compared to this quarter last year. So really not a Sony problem so much as it is an industry problem

40 million consoles sold with only 21 months on the market would have been next to impossible, even with great supply, the PS4 during its peak sales years didn’t get close to that kind of sales pace