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A chip shortage upended production, and yet, the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S are outselling last-gen counterparts
Despite the fact that you still can’t get one, Sony has sold 10 million PlayStation 5 units to date. Sony revealed that figure in a press release today, alongside a fascinating wrinkle: The PS5 is apparently outpacing PS4 sales over the same time frame. It’s yet another statistic indicating that next-gen consoles on the whole are selling at a faster rate than last-gen consoles did in their day.
There’s also this: On an earnings call earlier this week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that the Xbox Series X/S makes up Microsoft’s fastest-selling console line ever. Nadella did not provide a hard number on this week’s earnings call, as Microsoft stopped publicizing such figures years ago during the Xbox One’s lifetime. Kotaku reached out to Microsoft, nonetheless. We were pointed to the percentage increase of revenue as cited by Microsoft CFO Amy Hood on this week’s call.On Twitter, Daniel Ahmad, a senior analyst at Niko Partners, estimated that Microsoft has sold 6.5 million Xbox Series X/S units, compared to 5.7 million for the Xbox One and 5 million for the Xbox 360 during the same time frame.
Earlier this year, as PS5 sales approached 8 million units, Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki said that the company hopes for the PS5 to continue outselling the PS4, which clocked 14.8 million in its second year, which the next-gen console is already approaching. Kotaku reached out to Sony for more specific PS4-to-PS5 comparisons but did not hear back in time for publication.
Source: Kotaku
