Sony’s PlayStation 4 gaming console has been a smash hit ever since it was first released back in 2013. The company has released a more powerful version of the console called PlayStation 4 Pro and a thinner, lighter version called PlayStation 4 Slim. Sony has announced that its fiscal year ending March 31st, 2017 was the best year yet for PlayStation 4 sales.
According to the numbers provided by Sony, it shipped 20 million PlayStation 4 consoles in the fiscal ending March 31st, 2017. This is a new high for the PlayStation 4 in a fiscal year. The total number of units that have been shipped since the console was launched in 2013 now hovers around 60 million.
The company announced in May last year that lifetime shipments for the PlayStation 4 had reached 40 million units. By December, it was out with another number, when the overall shipments topped 50 million units across the globe.
Sony’s gaming division predictably earned it the most revenue out of all of its business units with an operating profit of $1.21 billion after raking in $14.7 billion in revenue. Sales climbed by 6.3 percent and profits saw a dramatic increase of 52.9 percent.
Sony expects that the shipments will decline a bit in the current fiscal year as it now forecasts shipments of 18 million units by March 31st, 2018. At this rate, it’s still outpacing the PlayStation 4, which sold more than 71 million units after four years.
The PlayStation 4 may very well cross that milestone before it hits the four-year mark.
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