PlayStation 4 sales surpassed 6.4M during the holiday season

Sony reported its financial earnings for its fiscal third quarter today, and the company sold a whole bunch of gaming consoles.

The company said that it sold 6.4 million PlayStation 4s during the three-month period from Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, according to its Q3 report. That is up from 4.5 million PS4s sold during the same period in the previous year. In total, Sony sold 7.5 million PlayStation consoles (that’s PS4s and PS3s) during the quarter. The console gaming market is worth around $50 billion, and Sony has established a significant lead over its competition from Microsoft and Nintendo to capture the biggest piece of that.