PlayStation 4 sales surpass 18.5M after huge holiday

Sony got exactly what it wanted for the gift-giving holidays: a bunch of people buying the PlayStation 4.

Sales for Sony’s console have now surpassed 18.5 million worldwide, according to a post on PlayStation’s Japanese website. That number got a huge boost thanks to Christmas and other end-of-the-year holidays. Sony confirmed it sold 4.1 million PS4s during that busy shopping season. This helps continue Sony’s momentum during this generation of consoles, and it also keeps PS4 on pace as one of the fastest-selling gaming systems of all time. At this point in the PlayStation 3’s life, it had sold around 12.85 million consoles worldwide. The console-gaming market is worth $50 billion, and Sony is positioning the PS4 to capture a big piece of that