PS4 Software Sales Exceed 400 Million

[Randoug]

Sony’s PS4 is an unstoppable beast as far as commercial performance goes at this point- we already know that it is at more than 50 million units sold in to consumers worldwide at this point. But for a gaming console, the hardware is just a means to an end- what really matters are the software sales. Even the console manufacturers themselves understand that, often willing to sell consoles at a loss, to compensate for the revenue via software sales and service subscriptions.

All of which is to say, those 50 million PS4s sold wouldn’t amount to anything much if their owners weren’t buying games to play on them too. Happily enough, that doesn’t appear to be the case, with PS4 software sales now reported to be 401.1 million. Sony Interactive Entertainment Asia general manager Hiroyuki Oda revealed (via Push Square) the numbers at the ongoing Taipei Games Show.

This brings the PS4’s attach rate to almost 8 games owned per PS4 console sold- a pretty high software attach ratio, and officially the highest of this generation, having overtaken the Wii U’s software attach ratio of seven units per console. For Sony, however, there is nowhere to go but up- and as the number of high quality and major releases increases in the coming months, I daresay we will find that total software sales continue to go up correspondingly higher too.


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[Fatboi1]

 

[Randoug]

@PS4

 

[Cladyclad]

But I thought X..

Never mind

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

How many of those are remasters, sequels, or bundles? :LEONSAS:

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

How many of those are remasters, sequels, or bundles? :LEONSAS:

Each one respectively is about the same number of Xbone cancellations.

 

[Rekkapryde]

How many of those are remasters, sequels, or bundles? :LEONSAS:

@itsyoung!!

 

[Fatboi1]

@itsyoung!!

Thread ruined

 

[Rekkapryde]

Thread ruined

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

So Sony is killing shyt but Wii U is quietly right behind while the Larry Box sits in third for software sales

 

[itsyoung!!]

@itsyoung!!

Yall joke about it, but this was reported after they just did a flash sale on half the ps4 library for $5 per game.

Sony does a lot of smoke and mirrors in their reports. 400 million software sales, does that include apps? Just games?

We know PS4 only did $10 billion in software sales in 2016, while PC did $40 billion

So what exactly is there to brag about here

Being in 3rd place with 4x less sales this is what yall choose to brag about today

PS4 not even in the same league as PC gaming why yall stans choose to tag me in these meaningless threads I have no idea

400 million software sales, over 3-4 years, congratulations thats like 3 months of sales on PC

 

[Rekkapryde]

Yall joke about it, but this was reported after they just did a flash sale on half the ps4 library for $5 per game.

Sony does a lot of smoke and mirrors in their reports. 400 million software sales, does that include apps? Just games?

We know PS4 only did $10 billion in software sales in 2016, while PC did $40 billion

So what exactly is there to brag about here

Being in 3rd place with 4x less sales this is what yall choose to brag about today

 

[itsyoung!!]

You knew why to tag me in here

The war between PC gaming and console gaming been over, its not even close.

 

[Rekkapryde]

You knew why to tag me in here

The war between PC gaming and console gaming been over, its not even close.

It's not even a war, dunno why you ever thought it was.

It's the "console wars" for a reason.

But shyt, that was over this gen too before it even started

 

[itsyoung!!]

It's not even a war, dunno why you ever thought it was.

It's the "console wars" for a reason.

But shyt, that was over this gen too before it even started

yeah but you are the only one smart enough to understand that. You have people who legit think PS4 is more popular than PC gaming on here its honestly sad how ignorant a lot of people in this sub forum are