PlayStation 5 console reaches 40 million units sold

Sony has announced that a milestone of 40 million PS5 consoles has been sold through since launch about three years ago.

The console first launched in November 2020, and faced some hardware shortages. Jim Ryan, President & CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, stated: "Despite the unprecedented challenges of COVID, our teams and our partners worked diligently to deliver PS5 on time. We continued to face headwinds with the pandemic, and it took months for supply chains to normalize so we could have the inventory to keep up with demand. For more months than I care to remember, we kept thanking our community for their patience while working through these issues. But now PS5 supply is well-stocked and we are seeing that pent up demand finally being met."

The company says there are more than 2,500 PS5 games now available. Most recently, the company also launched PlayStation VR2. The new PlayStation 5 Access Controller will launch on December 6 2023.

The predecessor console, PlayStation 4, also shipped 40 mullion units as of May 2016, roughly three years after its 2013 release.

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