 Sony has made the surprising admission that PS5 console sales have been lower than expected in the UK, during the recent price cut. Although Sony has certainly had its problems in the last year or so, with its puzzling lack of new game announcements, the one thing that didn't seem to be an issue were console sales. Only a few weeks ago, Sony revealed that worldwide sales had passed the 40 million mark and, while Microsoft never reveals sales figures, it's still believed the PlayStation 5 is outselling the Xbox Series X/S by a factor of roughly 2:1. That made the temporary price cut last month a (welcome) surprise, but it seems Sony isn't happy with how much it moved the needle in the UK. 'In United Kingdom, it's a bit weak, but Europe as a whole has been performing quite well,' said Sony COO Hiroki Totoki during a recent financial call. While Sony's results do break sales down by region, they never got into quite so much detail as how it's doing in different countries, but the UK is traditionally considered to be the third largest PlayStation market in the world, behind the US and Japan. There's been nothing to suggest that's not still the case with PlayStation 5, but it may be that Sony's expectations were unreasonable. According to Gfk data, via GamesIndustry.biz, PlayStation console sales this year are up 73% on the same period last year and account for 47% of all home console sales in 2023, compared to 31% in 2022. Considering that huge increase, and the fact that the Nintendo Switch is still popular, that's a huge achievement and suggests that Sony were just getting greedy in what they expected from the sale. Then again, perhaps that means that sales increased by even more elsewhere in the world, which suggests the PlayStation 5 is going to pass the 50 million mark sooner rather than later… Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, and follow us on Twitter. MORE : PS5 Slim is 2 inches shorter than original mo){kind=link}
Sony has made the surprising admission that PS5 console sales have been lower than expected in the UK, during the recent price cut.
Although Sony has certainly had its problems in the last year or so, with its puzzling lack of new game announcements, the one thing that didn’t seem to be an issue were console sales.
Only a few weeks ago, Sony revealed that worldwide sales had passed the 40 million mark and, while Microsoft never reveals sales figures, it’s still believed the PlayStation 5 is outselling the Xbox Series X/S by a factor of roughly 2:1.
That made the temporary price cut last month a (welcome) surprise, but it seems Sony isn’t happy with how much it moved the needle in the UK. ‘In United Kingdom, it’s a bit weak, but Europe as a whole has been performing quite well,’ said Sony COO Hiroki Totoki during a recent financial call.
While Sony’s results do break sales down by region, they never got into quite so much detail as how it’s doing in different countries, but the UK is traditionally considered to be the third largest PlayStation market in the world, behind the US and Japan.