In 2023, 2.58 million PlayStation 5 copies were sold in Japan, according to Game Data Library analysts. The last time any one Sony console had such high annual sales in the country was in 2010 – during the PlayStation Portable era.

The updated PS5 line will be 30% smaller than the current one, but the new consoles in it do not bear the name Slim.

PlayStation 5 took 142 weeks for its sales in the Japanese market to reach 4 million copies, according to Game Data Library. Less than the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 at the time.

At the end of July, Sony for the first time lowered the prices of the PlayStation 5 in a number of countries, including the UK. According to GfK, because of this, weekly console sales in the British market increased by 75% in units and by 63% in monetary terms.

Sony has updated PlayStation 5 sales data. She said she has sold 40 million consoles to date.

For the first time since its release in November 2020, the PS5 surpassed the Nintendo Switch in monthly sales in the Japanese market and became the best-selling console in February. According to Famitsu, over 366.9 thousand PS5S were sold in Japan last month — 457% more than a year ago.

British sales of the PS5 have surpassed the milestone of 2 million copies, according to GamesIndustry.biz with a link to the GfK data. It took 98 weeks for the console to do this.

Two weeks ago, for the first time in 33 years, all 30 places in the Japanese bestseller chart were occupied by games for one console. It became the Nintendo Switch. The Gaming Bolt portal has found out why this console has become more attractive to local developers and why they are no longer eager to cooperate with Sony.

The talk around a possible price increase for games for the PS5 and Xbox Series X is not going to subside. This time, the Japanese studio Capcom joined them.

Publishers can increase the prices of games for the PS5 and Xbox Series X. They will be forced to do this by increased development costs.

New details about the PlayStation 5 release were revealed by Bloomberg. According to him, the Sony console will be released on time, but in a limited edition. COVID-19 should be blamed for the latter.

The next console from Sony has received an official name and release date. As expected, it was named PlayStation 5. The novelty will be on the market at the end of 2020.