New Sony PlayStation 4 Sales Record

Some time ago, the president of Sony Computer Entertainment for Japan and Asia, Hiroshi Kawano, once revealed that his current dream is to beat sales records. PlayStation 2. Become home consoles best-selling in history, even its creators doubt the record can be broken.

One reason is that even Sony itself predicts that home consoles their new, PlayStation 4, has a period life cycle shorter than platforms they were before.

But there may still be a way for Sony to pursue their greatest desire as the PS4 itself has set an astonishing new record: within four months of its release and moments after its launch in Japan, consul recently sold six million units.

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Here we can see a very healthy increase in sales. In early December, just days after its launch, Sony announced that sales had touched 2,1 million units. Then in January, PS4 sales doubled to 4,2 million units. S

when Sony finally released platform In Japan, this device has sold more than 5,3 units. Around 2,1 million units sold are the bundled version of Killzone: Shadow Fall, we can see the contribution game it's on sale.

Not only that, the Sony PlayStation 4 has also become next-generation platforms best-selling in UK history and sold well beyond previous estimates in Japan with over 370.000 units.

The giant rivals themselves also have fairly healthy sales figures. At the end of last year, 3,9 million Xbox Ones were distributed to retailers worldwide and sales reached three million units. Unlike Sony, Microsoft seems reluctant to reveal their sales info.

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The analyst's assumption is that the figure is quite high thanks to gamer waiting for Titanfall as an exclusive game platform Microsoft. He could be considered as Killzone: Shadow Fall of Xbox One. Too bad they only released consul in limited territory when compared to Sony, the PlayStation 4 was released in 57 countries.

Sony also released statistical data stating that gamer PlayStation 4 has recorded andshare 100 million moments gameplayy and men-stream-to Twitch and Ustream. Then more than half of PlayStation 4 owners also subscribe to the PlayStation Plus service.

My estimate is that sales will go up again if Sony officially announces the return of the Uncharted and The Last of Us series on the platform. game the new...

With IGN. Header image source: Playstation.com.