Sony had 123 million month active users in December.
Sony had 123 million month active users in December.
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Sony sells 50M PlayStation 5 consoles

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida announced that it has sold 50 million PlayStation 5 consoles at its press conference at CES 2024.

He also said that Sony had 123 million monthly active users in December. That means there are a lot of Sony fans still playing games on older Sony machines such as the PlayStation 4 game console.

Yoshida talked about the game sales at Sony’s press event at CES 2024, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. He also talked up game adaptations into films such as Uncharted, The Last of Us, Twisted Metal and Gran Turismo. More such games are in the works, and Sony’s Afeela electric car being built with Honda will also feature game integrations.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.