During the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year, which ended in March, the company shipped 6.3 million PS5 consoles to reach 38.3 million lifetime shipments.
The figure represents a record for any games console during the first three months of a calendar year, and it’s also double PS4’s all-time peak for the same window. During an earnings presentation on Friday, Sony’s president, COO and CFO Hiroki Totoki, said the company’s PS5 forecast was based on an analysis of the number of users it’s seeing make the jump from PS4 to its successor, combined with new PlayStation customers.
“Based on this forecast, we believe that 25 million units within this fiscal year is something that we think we can achieve,” he said .