Game on: PS4 2014’s highest-selling console

Gaming console the fastest to reach sales of over 4.1 million units.

Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) said its PlayStation 4 (PS4) sold over 4.1 million units around the world during the Christmas season, making it the highest-selling gaming console during the period as well as for the year 2014, reported IANS.

Despite the unavailability of sales data of its major competitors Microsoft and Nintendo, the figures reported by Sony suggest that the PS4 dominated the gaming console market for a second consecutive year. Taking into account these new figures, the company has already sold 18.5 million units of the console, SCE said in a statement.

PS4 has been the fastest to reach this sales volume in the company’s history, even quicker than PlayStation 2, which, with a total of 155 million units sold, is the largest-selling console of all time. “The company’s total sales for 2014, including sales of its previous-generation PlayStation 3 game machine and the PlayStation Vita handheld device, look to have topped 20 million units, exceeding the 19 million units sold in 2013,” the Nikkei Financial Daily reported.

Of these 20 million units, analysts believe that over 13 million units sold were those of PS4. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the increase in sales has also led to a jump in the Tokyo Stock Exchange by more than 4.5 per cent for the company.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 9^th,  2015.

Like Life & Style on Facebook, follow @ETLifeandStyle on Twitter for the latest in fashion, gossip and entertainment.