Sony is expected to sell over 10 million PS5 consoles during the 2023 holiday season. Yes, we’re barely out of February and we’re already talking about Christmas. However, Sony specifically expects to sell around 10.5 million units of PS5 in the third quarter of fiscal 2023 (October, November and December of this year).
The new “PS5 Slim” model could boost console sales
Para poner este número de 10.5 million In context, which comes from an informant of Insider Gaming of fuentes anónimas, Sony revealed that solo envió (that is different from “to sell”) 7.1 million of PS5 consoles during the time navideña del past year. This means the company is expecting about a 30% increase in sales during the holiday season this year compared to last year.
This projection is based on the next “PS5 Slim”, which is apparently expected to be in production in April 2023 and available for sale around September 2023. This new PS5 model with a removable disk drive will supposedly replace the current ones, although the drive will -even may not be compatible with the digital version of the PS5. Either way, that 10.5 million number likely includes all PS5 models together, rather than just this PS5 Slim.
Overall, Sony expects to sell over 30 million PS5 consoles in fiscal year 2023, which is close to the 32 million units the company says it has sold since the PS5 launched in November 2020. Given that With PS5 sales have nearly doubled from last month in the UK, thanks in part to better console supplies, it seems Sony’s optimistic predictions aren’t too far off the mark.