Despite supply constraints, Sony sold 7.8 million PS5 consoles till March end

Sony has sold 7.8 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of March 31. The company mentioned in its latest earnings report that the number of PlayStation Plus subscribers is now 47.6 million, a 14.7 per cent increase over last year. With the fourth-quarter earnings, the overall PlayStation business has a total operating profit of 342.2 billion yen (about $3.14 billion) for the 2020 financial year.

The figure is a record for Sony itself. The Japanese brand’s last earnings report revealed that the company had shipped 4.5 million PS5 units worldwide by the end of 2020. The statistic shows that in the latest quarter Sony shipped about 3.3 million PS5 units.