Sony PlayStation 4 News: Brand Dominates Console Wars; PS4 Sales Go Over 30 Million!
For Sony PlayStation 4 news, Sony has announced that the company has won over the console wars against its competitors in terms of sales, according to CNBC.
The PlayStation 4 was launched on Nov. 2013 with the aim to make a mark on console history. Xbox One from Microsoft and the Wii U from Nintendo were its sole competitors for the consoles. Through the years, the three companies had its hand on dominance over the video game console sales and recently the PS4 had better sales compared to the other two.
Last Wednesday, Sony announced that the PlayStation 4 has continued to show the fastest and strongest growth in PlayStation hardware history, according to sources.
The company has also announced that it has sold more than 30.2 million PlayStation 4 video game consoles. The figure comes from the two years after it was launched, according to Polygon.
"We are sincerely grateful that gamers across the globe have continued to choose PS4 as the best place to play since launch two years ago," said President and Global CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Andrew House.
Last January, the PS4 sales reached 18.5 million, which also included the 4.1 million sales during the 2014 holiday season, according to PC Mag. The recent number of sales might increase with this new Sony PlayStation 4 news, which stated that Sony will be giving out a $50 PS4 discount for shoppers before the end of the year.
Sony is also aiming to ship more than 17.5 million video game consoles by then end of their fiscal year, which will end on March 2016, according to The Wall Street Journal. While Sony has given this PlayStation 4 news to the public, their competitors, Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo Co., has still not updated their video game console sales figures lately. Analysts speculate that the PlayStation 4 is still ahead in terms of sales.
