Sony sells 5.3 million Playstation consoles

Last updated: February 19, 2014 1:10 pm

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This file picture taken on February 1, 2014 shows Sony's PlayStation 4 video game consoles, which will be launched in Japan on February 22, displayed at the "Try! PlayStation 4! -2.22-" event at Ginza Sony building in Tokyo. Global sales of the PlayStation 4, launched in North America, South America and Europe end of last year, topped 5.3 million units as of February 8, Sony Computer Entertainment announced on February 18. (AFP PHOTO / FILES / TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA)

Reuters – Sony Corp said it has sold 5.3 million Playstation 4 game consoles as of 8 February, surpassing its full-year target ahead of its release in Japan next week.

Sony had said that it hoped to sell 5 million units by the end of March after releasing the Playstation 4 on 29 November in the United States, Western Europe and Latin America and rolling it out across other Asian countries since then.

The console will go on sale in Japan on 22 February, the last country currently scheduled to handle the device.

Microsoft Corp said in January that it had sold more than 3 million of its Xbox One console by the end of December after it was also released in late November.