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PlayStation 4 sales top 6M units in less than four months

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sony announced that PlayStation 4 sales have surpassed 6 million units worldwide in the four months since the video game console first launched.

That is a smashing success by console launch standards, and it bodes well for the Japanese strategic battle with Microsoft’s Xbox One game console. Sony also said it sold 13.7 million units of software, or 2.2 games per machine, as of March 2.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.