Sony has sold 10 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide

[Justin Kahn]

Today during its Gamescom 2014 press conference, Sony Computer Entertainment's Jim Ryan announced that the company has now sold 10 million PlayStation 4s worldwide. Sony pointed out that this isn't a shipped number, this is the amount of actual units sold to gamers. Sony said that it had sold over 5 million of its next generation consoles to gamers back in February, and now doubling that total in the past 6 months, the new console is showing no signs of slowing.

The milestone accounts for figures worldwide as of August 10th and represents the "fastest and strongest" growth in PlayStation hardware ever, according to a Sony press release.

Back in May during a corporate meeting, Sony's Kaz Hirai said PlayStation 4 is already profitable for the company. The increase in sales should up the numbers for PlayStation Plus as well, previously Hirai said nearly 50% of PS4 owners dropped the $49.99 for a year of the subscription based service.

Having now out sold the Xbox One consistently since releasing around the same time two years ago, even special promotions and a significant price drop with the Kinect-less bundle couldn't push Xbox One ahead of PS4. Microsoft did not disclose sales numbers at its event today.

While Microsoft may have landed the new Tomb Raider exclusive, Sony had a fairly strong showing with its content at today's conference as well. Along with a new title called Wild from Rayman creator Michel Ancel, we caught a glimpse of the new Ninja Theory game Hellblade, a new Bloodborne trailer and some footage for The Order: 1886.

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[Guest]

I think this post is from the future. It says the PS4 and Xbox One were released two years ago.

 

[WangDangDoodle]

This makes me want to buy a PS4 just to put another nail in the Xbone's coffin.

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

This makes me want to buy a PS4 just to put another nail in the Xbone's coffin.

You must remember this is M$ we're talking about and their console releases work just like their Windows OS's, they release a winner then a dud, a winner then a dud and so forth. Maybe their next console will be a killer without the price to match...

 

[Puiu]

It's almost certain that the new tomb raider is a time exclusive (especially because MS said "holiday season 2015 exclusive"). it's square we're talking about. their biggest market is and will always be asia (aka china and japan). xbox one/360 is just not selling well there(or at all in the case of xbox one).
square also said that in "december 2015" we can play other tomb raider games for ps4 and PC, like the definitive version.

 

[GeforcerFX]

10 million people with nothing to play

 

[drjekel_mrhyde]

That's the only good news coming from the Sony camp. Sony as a company will be dead in 6 years.

 

[wastedkill]

That's the only good news coming from the Sony camp. Sony as a company will be dead in 6 years.

Square enix will be dead in 1 & google dead in 4 then microsoft at 6

 

[Guest]

Correction - both systems were release less than 1 year ago last November, not 2 years ago as stated in the article.