The PlayStation 5 shortage is finally over — at least according to Sony. The company also announced that it sold around 30 million consoles at this point. That’s around 5 million more than the last time it released sales numbers in November.
Jim Ryan, the president of Sony Interactive Entertainment is confident that it’s really over.
“PS5 supply improved towards the end of last year. I’m happy to share that December was the biggest month ever for PS5 console sales, and that we’ve now sold more than 30 million units through to consumers worldwide.” He said in an interview.
The PlayStation 5 launched in November 2020, amidst a global pandemic and worldwide supply chain shortages associated with it. Finding a new-in-the-box PS5 at retail became something of a lifestyle for many over the past two years. or most of the console’s life, getting one required you to be either very lucky, relatively on-the-spot with drops, or willing to pay scalpers or Best Buy significantly more than the console’s SRP.
Ryan thanked fans for bearing with Sony while it “managed unprecedented demand amid global challenges over the past two years.” That would be the chip and component shortage which made PS5 exceptionally hard to find, and eons after release, it was still selling out instantly when it popped up online.
Where PS5’s sales figures might really matter, though, is in the number of subscribers to the revamped PlayStation Plus, which Sony said lost almost 2 million paying members as of November.
Hopefully, Sony won’t have the same availability issues when the PlayStation VR2 headset launches in February.
