PS5 shipped 19m units in FY2022, games revenues up 33% to $26.5bn
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PlayStation 5 shipped 19 million units in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023 – ahead of Sony's original target of 18 million.
The sales achieved were partly thanks to resolved pandemic-induced supply issues which have hampered the PS5 during the early years of its life.
The milestone was announced alongside Sony's full-year financial results, which also showed sharp rises in game sales. Here's what you need to know:
Game & Network Services (incl. PlayStation)
G&NS
Sony's Game & Network Services division, which handles PlayStation, was once again the largest revenue driver for the company, thanks to increased sales of both hardware and software. In fact, G&NS sales were 50% higher than those of Sony's next biggest segment, Entertainment, Technology & Services.
Game software generated ¥1.7 trillion ($12.5 billion, up 13%), the majority of which was from add-on content at ¥862 billion ($6.3 billion, up 1%). Physical game sales generated ¥193.4 billion ($1.4 billion, up 50%), while digital full-game sales generated ¥660.9 billion ($5 billion, up 16%)
67% of all game sales were digital, a slight uptick on the 66% from the previous fiscal year.
In addition to the 19 million PS5 units, 264.2 million full games were sold in the twelve-month period, down from 303.2 million the previous year. 43.5 million first party games sold, just shy of the 43.9 million managed in the previous fiscal year.
The company noted that will first-party title sales were higher than the previous year, there has been a decrease in sales of third-party games and add-on content.
PlayStation also saw its operating income impacted by increasing costs of development, as
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