PlayStation 5 sales increased

Sony Corporation has shipped 20.8 million units of PS5 consoles in 2023. This is reported in a report on the company's website .

The company said it sold 1.7 million more devices than in 2022. However, despite the growth in sales, Sony did not meet the expectations of corporate leaders and investors – in February, the company predicted that it would sell at least 21 million consoles.

According to Reuters sources, the company expects a decrease in sales – the top managers of the IT giant predict 18 million consoles for the 2024 fiscal year, which will end on March 31, 2025.

Game sales in the last quarter reached 72.6 million units, which is almost 5 million more than a year earlier. 12.3 million fell on software directly from Sony.

Sony also said that after the departure of the former head of the PlayStation division, Jim Ryan, the gaming business will be headed by new executives. Hideaki Nishino will become CEO of the Sony Interactive Entertainment platform, Herman Hülst will be appointed CEO of SIE Studio.

At the beginning of May, experts of the Digital Foundry project talked about the characteristics of the new Sony PlayStation console. Including, PS5 Pro will get a performance of 33.5 teraflops, a processor frequency of up to 2.35 gigahertz, 256 kilobytes of cache memory of the first level.