Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced that its next-generation game console, PlayStation 5 (PS5) has exceeded 40 million units sold worldwide since its launch in November 2020.

The new Sony console went on sale in a first group of seven countries on November 12, 2020 and was generalized to the rest of the world, including Spain, on the 19th of that same month. His bet for the new era of entertainment was a futuristic design with white, black and blue LED lights, with the matching DualSense controller, and support for 4K UHD resolution and later also 8K.

Its launch, however, occurred in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis. “We were facing headwinds with the pandemic, and it took months for supply chains to normalize so that enough inventory could be held to meet demand. In this regard, we continue to thank the community for their patience, but now the supply of PS5 is well supplied and pent-up demand is finally being met,” SIE resident and CEO Jim Ryan said in a press release.

In this context, the company has just announced that the console has exceeded 40 million units sold worldwide since its launch. During this time, the content has also been improved, with a catalog of more than 2,500 games, and the ability to customize the experience, with new colors for the PS5 controller and covers.

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PlayStation integrated Discord voice chat for the PS5 console in its latest beta update, along with other new features including improved Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support for 1440p.

The instant messaging service Discord already began rolling out the integration of voice chats for PS5 in its beta update in October. Now, it is PlayStation who announced through its blog some news that its new update includes, including the possibility of using this chat function.

“Enjoy multiplayer matches, regardless of whether people are playing on PC, mobile or another Discord-compatible console“, the instant communication platform said on its website.

In this sense, users who have access to the PS5 beta update will be able to link their Discord and PlayStation Network accounts from their console. To activate it, however, it will be necessary to use the mobile or computer app.

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Sony Group Corporation has sold a total of 19.3 million PlayStation 5 (PS5) units since the release of this next-generation console in November 2020.

The company released the financial results for the fiscal year that ended on March 31st, 2022. Of these, it highlighted that it distributed more than two million PS5 units in the last quarter of the year, which corresponds to the first three months of this year.

It was in February of this year that the Japanese technology company published its earnings report for the third quarter of 2021, when it said that it had shipped 3.9 million units to meet demand.

Then, they indicated that so far it had sold 17.3 million next-generation consoles since its launch, produced in November 2020. These figures took some distance from the 20.2 million PlayStation 4 (PS4) units that Sony had administered at the same time of its life cycle.

This determines that it managed to sell 3.1 million units less than the PlayStation 4 at the same time of the analysis, thus confirming the consequences of the lack of supplies derived from the pandemic.

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Sony Group Corp announced the reduction of the manufacture of its PlayStation 5 (pS5) console as a consequence of the global crisis on some of the components such as chips. The company planned to manufacture 16 million units by March of the next fiscal year; but they will go down to only 15 million due to a shortage of processors.

Sources close to the management of the company’s operations highlighted that this reduction could significantly affect the sales goals established at 14.8 million and the supply or supply of the PS5 production.

Console sales were already impacted in the last three months so far this year, when a figure “slightly weaker than expected” was reported, as expressed by the company’s chief financial officer, Hiroki Totoki, at a press conference.

Totoky reiterated that the situation is a consequence of limitations and logistical problems, as well as a shortage of components for electronic devices such as “new generation PlayStation and Xbox consoles, whose supply fails to meet demand.”

It is important to recall that PS5 exceeded PS4 sales figures in the first quarter of 2021, with about 7.8 million compared to 7.6 today, while PS4 registered sales of 13.4 million in the first quarter. quarter, compared to 13.8 million.

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