PlayStation 5 Sales Have Surpassed 40 Million Units

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that PlayStation 5 sales have surpassed 40 million units worldwide. In a message regarding the announcement, Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Jim Ryan thanks fans for their patience despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID 19” and how it affected supply chains, and also highlights 40 games available on the platform, voted by PlayStation players.

 

The full announcement via Sony’s website:

We launched PlayStation 5 in November 2020 and the world was in a strange and different place than when we announced the console in 2019. Despite the unprecedented challenges of COVID, our teams and our partners worked diligently to deliver PlayStation 5 on time. We continued to face headwinds with the pandemic, and it took months for supply chains to normalize so we could have the inventory to keep up with demand. For more months than I care to remember, we kept thanking our community for their patience while working through these issues. But now PlayStation 5 supply is well-stocked and we are seeing that pent up demand finally being met.

With the support of PlayStation fans, we have reached a milestone of 40 million PlayStation 5 consoles sold through* to gamers since launch. Thank you so much to our community of gamers – without you this would have been an impossible task.

PlayStation 5 launched with the best catalog of games in our history and the momentum for great content keeps getting stronger. From innovative indie games to AAA blockbusters, there are more than 2,500 PlayStation 5 games now available, and it has never been a better time to experience PlayStation 5 In the last two months alone, we have seen incredible new games from our partners, including Final Fantasy XVI, Diablo IV, and Street Fighter 6.

Since the launch of PlayStation 5, players have been enjoying a selection of great games that illustrate how games are as vast and creative as any other entertainment medium. To that end, here are 40 games that have been voted for by PlayStation players.

 

Astro’s Playroom

Bugsnax

Call of Duty Modern Warfare II

Cult of the Lamb

Dead Space

Death’s Door

Deep Rock Galactic

Demon’s Souls

Disco Elysium – The Final Cut

Doki Doki Literature Club

Elden Ring

Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout

FIFA 23

Final Fantasy XVI

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut

God of War Ragnarök

Gran Turismo 7

Hades

Hitman 3

Hogwarts Legacy

Horizon Forbidden West

Humanity

Inscryption

It Takes Two

Kena: Bridge of Spirits

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy

Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Resident Evil 4

Resident Evil Village

Returnal

SIFU

Skater XL

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Stray

Tales of Arise

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

The Last of Us Part I

Worms Rumble

A grat addition to the PlayStation 5 generation has been our array of accessories. Over the past two and a half years we have unveiled new ways gamers can customize the experience and bring exciting colors into their homes. We developed a range of colors for the DualSense wireless controller and PlayStation 5 console covers. These accessories have proven really popular as players want their PlayStation 5 to reflect their taste.

We developed PlayStation 5 with our community at the forefront of our thinking, which led us to deliver innovations like the adaptive triggers and haptic feedback in the DualSense controller, as well as PlayStation VR2. PlayStation Studios and our third-party partners have jumped in to take advantage of these capabilities and expand their creative toolkit to deliver a generational leap in the experiences they bring to gamers.

Thank you again for your continued support of PlayStation.

*As of the week ending July 16, 2023

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