Sony’s PlayStation 5 gaming console has bought 20 hundreds of thousands devices international since its November 2020 release, the corporate showed to CNET by means of e-mail on Friday. The following-gen PS5 console hit the milestone in spite of a scarcity of inventory because of the pandemic and world provide chain problems, as prior to now reported by way of GamesIndustry.biz.
It is recently monitoring at the back of the PS4, however Sony expects the PS5 to in the end outpace its predecessor. The contemporary gross sales information comes lower than a yr after gross sales hit 10 million international, a milestone the PS5 reached a month sooner than the PS4.
“To these fanatics who have not begun to get their fingers on a console, please know that we’re making plans on an important ramp-up in PS5 manufacturing this yr and we’re operating ceaselessly to ensure that PlayStation 5 is to be had for everybody who needs one,” Veronica Rogers, head of world gross sales and trade operations at Sony Interactive Leisure, mentioned in a observation.
On Thursday, PlayStation’s State of Play livestream showcased primary upcoming video games, together with a Resident Evil 4 remake, Ultimate Delusion 16 and Boulevard Fighter 6.