As usual every three months, Sony has published a report with the financial results it has obtained during the first quarter of the current fiscal year, that is, from April 1 to June 30, 2021 . In it we can see how the PS5 and PS4 have done in terms of sales, which continue to increase their numbers without stopping.

Therefore, as Jim Ryan , CEO of PlayStation, commented just a few days ago , PS5 sales have risen to 10.1 million units worldwide, an increase of 2.3 million from the previous quarter . For its part, PS4 has reached 116.4 million units after adding 500,000 more units.

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In terms of video games, the combined software sales between the two platforms is left with 63.6 million units , something that seems an impressive number. However, if you look at the data obtained last year during the same period of time , at that time 91.4 million games were sold, so it was a decrease of 27.8 million.

Of all of them, 10.5 million correspond to first-party titles, while 71% of the sales that have occurred have been in digital format . Compared to the first quarter of the previous fiscal year, 18.5 million first-party games were sold at that time and 74% of the total was in digital format.

As for the PlayStation Plus service, it has also suffered a slight drop in the number of users who are signed up for it. In the previous quarter, the figure stood at 47.6 million and now it has dropped to 46.3 million , although it represents an increase of 1.3 million compared to the 44.9 million who subscribed to this service during the same period of the year. previous fiscal year. PS5 reaches 10.1 million consoles sold, PS4 at 116.4 million and PS Plus suffers a slight drop in its number of users