Sony announced that as at February 8, 2014, it has sold 5.3 million Playstation 4 consoles since its release. Sony sold more than one million units in the first 24 hours after its launch in North America on Nov. 15, 2013.
This surpassed its forecast of 5 million units as at the end of March 2014.
“I am thrilled that so many customers around the globe have continued to select PS4 as the best place to play throughout and beyond the holiday season,” said Andrew House, president and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, the game division of the Japanese electronics giant. “We are delighted that according to the NPD Group’s latest data, PS4 was January’s top-selling console in the United States.”
The console will go on sale in Japan on February 22, the last country currently scheduled to handle the device.
Microsoft Corp said in January that it had sold more than 3 million of its Xbox One console by the end of December after it was also released in late November.
