PlayStation first-party game sales break records with new yearly high

Sony has achieved a new high point for first-party game unit sales following a record-breaking holiday quarter.

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PlayStation's holiday 2022 was the best in history. Sony's games division made $8.8 billion in overall revenues as both software and hardware skyrocketed to $2.38 billion and $3.11 billion, respectively. First-party games represented a sizable portion of total game sales during Q3 and contributed quite a bit to overall earnings and purchases.

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According to Sony's latest earnings report, the company managed to sell 86.5 million PS4 and PS5 games across retail and digital channels. First-party games made up 24% of total sales during the period, or 20.8 million units sold. This represents a new four-year high for first-party game sales, beating out previous years from 2019 - present. The last record was set in FY20 with 19 million first-party games sold.

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God of War Ragnarok was the largest contributor to these sales. Sony Santa Monica recently confirmed Ragnarok had sold 11 million copies as of February, so it's fair to assume a sizable portion of the first-party titles sold during the October - December period was from Ragnarok.

Other contributors include The Last of Us Part 1 remastered and various other first-party games across both PS4 and PS5 that were discounted during the holidays.

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The surge in game sales during Q3 2022 helped push total PlayStation game sales towards breaking the 6 billion sales mark.

It's worth noting that third-party game sales made up the lion's share of titles purchased on PlayStation platforms; consumers bought 65.7 million third-party titles on PS4 and PS5.