Sony has published its latest fiscal results and going by this document, we learned how the PlayStation 5 and the PlayStation 4 have performed in the final quarter of the previous fiscal year.

In the fiscal year that ended on March 31 (and since the November launch), a total of 7.8 million PlayStation 5 units have been shipped, without differentiation between the PlayStation 5 Standard Edition and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition. Despite shortages, Sony thus saw the PS5 surpass the expectations by 200 thousand shipments by the end of the previous fiscal year. The PlayStation 4 is now at 115.9 million (without differentiating between the PlayStation 4 Slim and the PlayStation 4 Pro). In the previous fiscal quarter (January-March), 3.3 million PlayStation 5s and 1 million PlayStation 4s have been shipped. The latter saw a 0.4 million decrease year-on-year.

Sony tends to provide further details, and they didn’t disappoint us. By March 31, there were 47.6 million PlayStation Plus subscribers, which means in a year, Sony grew its subscriber base by 6.1 million people. A total of 61.4 million PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 games were sold in the previous quarter, which is 3.9 million fewer than in Q1 2020. Out of the 61.4 million, 7.9 million were first-party (Sony Interactive Entertainment) sales, which saw a 1.3 million decrease compared to the year before. However, the digital game sales (PlayStation Store) saw a massive increase: in the first three months of 2020, they took 68%, but in Q1 2021, the ratio grew to 79%, due to the coronavirus global pandemic.

So Sony is bringing home the expected numbers, and if the lack of components gets out of the way, then the PlayStation 5 will become much easier to obtain from a store (or online), but we have yet to see this issue to be resolved.

Source: Gematsu