PlayStation 4 sales exceeded 6 million

The Japanese company Sony officially announced that four months after the launch of the PlayStation 4, it sold more than 6 million gaming consoles. More recently, this figure was kept at around 5 million.

PlayStation 4 is incredibly popular with gamers, competing favorably with the Microsoft Xbox One game console. In addition, Sony reported sales of 13.7 million units of software, which is 2.2 games per machine. The company cited official data as of March 2.

Sony has also published statistics on the use of the Share function. According to the company's calculations, the owners of the consoles with the press of a single button published more than 56 million screenshots and video clips from the games. At the same time, the number of PlayStation Plus paid subscriptions has increased: more than half of PlayStation 4 users have subscribed to services such as saving games in the cloud, discounts and selling games. The number of installations of the PlayStation App has exceeded 3.6 million.

As for the homeland of Sony, since the launch of the PlayStation 4, which in Japan fell on February 22, the company has sold 370,000 consoles.

I am completely satisfied with the start of PS4 sales in Japan. The response to PS4’s built-in social capabilities has been phenomenal. I love how gamers use them to play, share and communicate with other users around the world. SCE continues the global expansion of PlayStation by expanding the library of games and introducing new features and services exclusively for PS4, said Andrew House, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE).

To date, Sony’s own studios offer 30 games, while the number of titles will continue to grow with the support of domestic and third-party developers, the company said. The list of best-selling games includes: Shadow Fall (2.1 million copies), Knack, Call of Duty: Ghosts from Activision, FIFA 14 and Battlefield 4 from Electronic Arts, and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag by Ubisoft.

Among the indie games there are Contrast (Complusion Gams), Warframe (Digital Extremes) and Don't Starve: Console Edition (Klei Entertainment).

The following games are being prepared for release: Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Kingdom Hearts III, Destiny, Watch Dogs, The Witness, Driveclub, InFamous Second Son and The Order: 1886.

To date, the PlayStation 4 game console is sold in 57 countries of the world.

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