Sony's latest financial reports have announced that 13.4m PlayStation 5 consoles have been sold to date, with 3.3 million PS5s being sold within the July-September Q2 period.
As revealed in Sony's Financial Results for Q2, the company's Game & Network Services Segment sold 1 million more PS5s to retailers in the quarter when compared to previous three-month period. This is the second highest quarterly sales for the PS5, matching Q4 2020 and only just trailing behind Q3 2020's record 4.5m sales.
These sales contributed to a total of $5.86 billion in revenue for Sony's gaming division, up 27% year-on-year for the best Q2 PlayStation has ever achieved. Of that revenue, $0.751b was taken as profit. While sales are impressive, there has been a decrease in operating profit, which is down 21% year-on-year. This comes partly due to lower PS4 sales - the console sold just 0.2m units this quarter - and PS5 consoles being sold at a loss.
Overall, PlayStation accounts for 27% of Sony's total revenue this quarter, and 26% of its total operating profit.
In game sales, Sony reports 76.4m games sold during the quarter across PS4 and PS5. As for lifetime sales, God of War has been its biggest seller, at 19.5 million copies. Horizon Zero Dawn, meanwhile has shifted 10m, and Marvel's Spider-Man has sold 13.2m. On PS5, Demon's Souls has sold 1.4m copies, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has sold 1.2m.
Over on PlayStation Plus, the service has hit 47.2m subscribers, marking an increase of 2.2 million users year-on-year, and a million more than the last quarter. PlayStation Network monthly active users is down, though, to 104 million. Just three quarters ago it was 114m; that decline may well be due to improving pandemic conditions resulting in people playing less games.
The figures sing a familiar tune to Sony's last quarter, where it also broke its own revenue records for the same quarter. Despite the continuing global chip shortage it seems that Sony not having too much trouble shipping PlayStation 5s, so much so that the PS5 is the fastest-selling console in US history.
Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.