Sony has released its financial results for Q2 FY2023, and it looks like the company’s PlayStation brand is performing better than ever.
According to a presentation that consolidates the company’s Q2 FY2023 results, Sony has now shipped as many as 46.6 million of its PlayStation 5 consoles, with 4.9 million of those coming from the most recent quarter.
The document also reveals that over 65 million copies of PS5 and PS4 games were sold during the latest quarter (4.7 million for first party), driving PlayStation’s sales and profits, which have evidently been growing year-on-year.
Complementing these numbers is a tweet from Insomniac Games, which announced today that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, its newest blockbuster, has already sold over 5 million copies.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 launched exclusively for PS5 on October 20 and was able to reach that record in just 11 days.
Woo! We're incredibly honored to announce Marvel's #SpiderMan2PS5 has sold over 5 MILLION COPIES!
— Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames) November 9, 2023
Thank you to our incredible community for supporting us and helping us reach this milestone! #BeGreaterTogether pic.twitter.com/KkXGXbsAB5
Not all is peachy in PlayStation land, though, as Hiroki Totoki, Sony’s president, COO, and CFO, said during an earnings call today that a big number of its live-service and multiplayer games have been delayed, according to transcripts that have been shared online.
Twelve are in the works, but half of them won’t make it out in the original time frame that Sony intended:
We are reviewing this… we are trying as much as possible to ensure [these games] are enjoyed and liked by gamers for a long time. [Of] the 12 titles, six titles will be released by FY25 – that’s our current plan. [As for] the remaining six titles, we are still working on that.
That’s the total number of live service and multiplayers titles [and] mid-to-long-term we want to [push] this kind of service and that’s the unchanged policy of the company. It’s not like we stick to certain titles, but game quality should be the most important [thing].
These games are said to include a new Horizon game, as well as a title set in the world of The Last of Us.