Sony also confirmed that there was “a loss resulting from strategic price points for PS5 hardware that were set below manufacturing costs.” He also noted that he is still on track to reach his goal of 7.6 million PS5 sales by the end of March 2021.
The PS4, which sold 1.4 million units in the same period, saw “higher profit margins” in hardware costs. In the same quarter last year, PS4 shipped 6.0 million units.Sales of PS5 and PS4 game units reached 103.7 million, compared to 83.3 million in the same quarter in 2019. The original titles represented 18.4 million of total game sales. Year-over-year, total game sales and original game sales increased by 83.3 million and 16.3 million, respectively.
While sales of digital games fell from 59% to 53% of total game sales, they increased from 50% in the same quarter of 2019.
It was also announced that Mavel Spider-Man: Miles Morales had sold about 4.1 million units by the end of December 2020.
PlayStation Plus saw its subscriber count reach 47.4 million, and there were 114 million monthly active users on PlayStation Network in the quarter. In addition, 87% of PS5 users are PlayStation Plus subscribers.
For more information about PlayStation, check your PlayStation Wrap Up to see game statistics for 2020, the state of PlayStation Studios and the best PS5 games.
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