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Forums - Sales Discussion - PS5 Ships 21.7 Million Units as of June 2022

PotentHerbs on 29 July 2022

Sony has sold just under 21M first party software for the year. I estimate:

HFW: 6M - 8M
GT7: 4M - 5M
MLB: 2M - 3M
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves: 1M+
God of War (PC): 1.5M - 2M+



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DonFerrari on 29 July 2022

Seems like a quite negative quarter for playstation, but if they are keeping HW forecast for the year it will pick up the pace, but with sales pushed to HW the SW suffered a hit and they lowered revenue forecast and profits, makes sense. They said the investment money biggest impact was Bungie closing earlier than forecast, so there may have other unannounced stuff involved (other studios that they are already putting money).



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

PortisheadBiscuit on 29 July 2022
aTokenYeti said:
PortisheadBiscuit said:

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

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

Maybe unlikely, but not impossible. PS5 had much more hype upon launch, comparison with the PS4 is kind of futile 



Blood_Tears on 29 July 2022
PotentHerbs said:

Sony has sold just under 21M first party software for the year. I estimate:

HFW: 6M - 8M
GT7: 4M - 5M
MLB: 2M - 3M
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves: 1M+
God of War (PC): 1.5M - 2M+

Yes, those titles did not bomb as others would like to believe. They forget that it took 2 years for the first Horizon to cross 10M. These titles are going to continue to sell and ride the wave of new PS5 shipments each and every month, especially with the monster Holiday coming for Sony. Others may want these titles to fail because it serves their agenda on forums but in the end they are and will continue to be way off the mark. 



DonFerrari on 29 July 2022
Blood_Tears said:
PotentHerbs said:

Sony has sold just under 21M first party software for the year. I estimate:

HFW: 6M - 8M
GT7: 4M - 5M
MLB: 2M - 3M
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves: 1M+
God of War (PC): 1.5M - 2M+

Yes, those titles did not bomb as others would like to believe. They forget that it took 2 years for the first Horizon to cross 10M. These titles are going to continue to sell and ride the wave of new PS5 shipments each and every month, especially with the monster Holiday coming for Sony. Others may want these titles to fail because it serves their agenda on forums but in the end they are and will continue to be way off the mark. 

And they are quality title that can be bundled instead of pricecuting when demand starts to met the offer.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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ShadowLink93 on 29 July 2022
aTokenYeti said:
PortisheadBiscuit said:

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

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

No console has shipped 30 million in it's first 7 quarters let alone 40 million, Wii had the best start with 29.62 million shipped by quarter 7.



DonFerrari on 29 July 2022
ShadowLink93 said:
aTokenYeti said:

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

No console has shipped 30 million in it's first 7 quarters let alone 40 million, Wii had the best start with 29.62 million shipped by quarter 7.

But that was because they couldn`t produce more =p



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

jason1637 on 29 July 2022

Pretty solid quarter for shipments better than the same period last year. Software isn’t that great though



Norion on 29 July 2022

Not good for software but hardware shipments were slightly up thankfully so hopefully that's the start of continual improvement. Also the PS4 seems completely done now so it declined even faster than I was expecting since I thought it'd at least reach 118m. A while ago 3rd place for it seemed guaranteed but now it'll soon get knocked down to 5th.



Norion on 29 July 2022

Another thing of note is the covid boom is very much over now with the declines to things like monthly active users. Also 79% digital compared to 71% last year is quite the jump and shows that digital adoption is still happening fast.