Link to the VGChartz article here.

PS5 Ships 61.7 Million Units as of June 2024

Sony Interactive Entertainment in its financial results announced it has shipped 61.7 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of June 30, 2024.

With 61.7 million PlayStation 5 consoles shipped through the end of June that means 2.4 million units were shipped from April to June. This is down 0.9 million (-27.3%) from the same quarter in 2023 when 3.3 million units were shipped.

For reference, the PlayStation 4 had shipped 3.3 million units in the same quarter for a lifetime total of 63.5 million units shipped as of June 30, 2017. This puts the PS5 behind shipped PS4 units by 1.8 million units.

There were a total of 53.6 million games sold on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 for the quarter. This is down 2.9 million from 56.5 million during the same period a year earlier. Digital sales accounted for 80 percent of software sales.

There were 6.0 million first-party games sold across the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. This is down 0.6 million from 6.6 million a year ago.

There were 116 million monthly active users on the PlayStation Network, an increase of eight million from 108 million a year ago. Sony did not disclose the number of PlayStation Plus subscribers. It was at 47.4 million at the end of March 2023.

Sony's Game & Network Services Segment for the quarter ending June 30, 2024, reported revenue increased 93.0 billion yen ($0.63 billion) year-over-year to 864.9 billion yen ($5.90 billion), while operating income increased 16.0 billion yen ($0.11 billion) to 65.2 billion yen ($0.44 billion).

Before any adjustments are done VGChartz estimates has PS5 at 59.80 million units sold compared to 61.7 million shipped for a gap of 1.9 million units. That is most likely overtracked given what the gap was at the end of March.

Sony had PS5 sell-through at 56M at the end of FY23, which ended March 31, 2024 (likely rounded, so could be 55.50M-56.49M), compared to "more than 59.2 million" shipped. That is a gap of 2.7M-3.7M.

PS5 sell-through on Page 14 - https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/business_segment_meeting/pdf/2024/GNS_E.pdf

Given only 2.4M PS5s were shipped in the April to June quarter the gap has likely shrunk down a bit, but it should still be over 2M.

I'll wait until the morning or afternoon (my time being EDT) before doing any adjustments as it is 2:30am for me right now and I need to head to bed.

Edit: I've gone and adjusted our PS5 estimates and we now have it at 59.3M lifetime for a gap of 2.3M. That is down from a gap of 2.7M-3.7M (according to Sony's data) at the end of March. 

Getting close to the 60M ! Prolly gonna be achieved during the next month or two likely.

That's a pretty decent drop.
Sony needs to bring the games soon.

Barely outshipping the switch is a big surprise. Although this gen has been pretty disappointing overall from Sony, Microsoft and most AAA third parties.

The next fiscal quarter looks to be a little better. Games like Black Mith Wukong, Star Wars Outlaws and Astrobot will help a bit but it takes a lot more games to move hardware. I'll say the same thing again Sony needs a big showcase for September

There was no big game to move hardware. Sony needs a big showcase, the next quarter looks to be a little better but still pretty weak to move hardware.

Yeah, I think there has been a real struggle this gen with consistent releases. Although Sony does seem to have improved in that regard this year with a solid slate of smaller releases but they also don't have that really big release that will really move consoles like spider man 2 for 2024.

"Sony's Game & Network Services Segment for the quarter ending June 30, 2024, reported revenue increased 93.0 billion yen ($0.63 billion) year-over-year to 864.9 billion yen ($5.90 billion), while operating income increased 16.0 billion yen ($0.11 billion) to 65.2 billion yen ($0.44 billion)."

Was the PS Plus price hike worth it Sony? Less hardware and Software but the network segment saw an increase! There is a give and pull in these kind of situations.

Some take aways I got looking at the report.

Corporate Sony posted an increase of 2% on overall sales, but this was due to currency fluctuations. On a constant currency bases sales would be down approx 7%. The major reason is a loss in Sony's Financial Services arm.

It's important to note that Sony in Japan has it's own bank and insurance company. Financial Services for Sony does: Life and non-life insurances, online banking, credit card settlement and venture capital activities. Financial services lost 24.5 Billion Yen in this quarter.

When it comes to Game & Network Services (Playstation). Sales grew by 93.0 Billion Yenn, but this was mostly due to a positive currency impact of 85.5 Billion Yenn. So most of the growth.

G&NS Operating income though is where the most positive news is for Playstation. An increase of 16.0 Billion Yenn, but only impacted by 1.4 Billion Yenn by currency fluctuations. This indicates better cost control on the Japanese site of the business.

G&NS/Playstation Operating income margin has grown from 6.37% to 7.54%. It's good to see the margin growing. It was soft for a while, so it's now going in the right direction.