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Sony sells 6.2 million PlayStation 4s during holiday season

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sony said that it sold 6.2 million PlayStation 4 video game consoles to consumers during the holidays on a worldwide basis.

Sony also said that it sold more than 50.4 million units of software (games and Blu-ray movies) during the holidays. And the company’s big exclusive, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, has now sold through to consumers more than 8.7 million copies globally. Those numbers should help cement Sony’s No. 1 position in the game console hardware market. Sony made the announcement at its press event at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week.

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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.