Sony’s PlayStation 5 Is the Fastest-Selling Console in U.S. History

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Sony’s latest next-generation console, the PlayStation 5, has already cemented its place as one of the Japanese gaming giant’s most successful video game systems ever. This is according to new data shared by market research group NPD, which revealed that the PS5 is the fastest-selling console in the U.S. based on both unit and dollar sales. The sales metrics are certainly impressive, being that Sony only launched the system just over five months ago. Sony aims to sell nearly 15 million more PS5 consoles in the current fiscal year.



US NPD Spend Trend – Monthly sales are now comparable to year ago periods that were impacted by pandemic-driven consumer spending increases. March 2021 gains in hardware, accessory and content sales (particularly Mobile) pushed the market to growth despite the elevated comp...

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[Strelok]

Imagine if they had actually built up a half decent supply.

 

[Denpepe]

Well you say 15 milion more but that's not in the article, they talk about sellin more then 14.8 million consoles so to me that means total not on top off what they sold so far, doubt they could even make that many

 

[Brian_B]

Yeah the article doesn’t really say much but uses a lot of words to get there.