Sony has shared its financial figures for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024. It shows that Sony shipped nearly 2.4 million PS5 consoles between April 1 and June 30. This brings the total number of PlayStation 5 consoles shipped to more than 61 million.

Sony Quarterly Deliveries That’s down from a year ago, when the manufacturer shipped 3.3 million. At the same time, Sony’s gaming division posted 12 percent higher profits compared to the same period in 2023. That’s due in part to increased sales of first-party games, network services like PlayStation Plus and a favorable exchange rate for the Japanese yen.

Software sales for the PS4 and PS5 also declined slightly in the last quarter. The manufacturer sold 53.6 million games in the last quarter, including 6.0 million first-party titles. A year earlier, those numbers were 56.5 million and 6.6 million, respectively. According to Sony, 80 percent of its game sales were digital.

Overall, Sony was on the up and up. 10% increase in operating profit Then in the first quarter of fiscal 2023, with a total of 36.6 billion yen. That amounts to 1.74 billion euros. This profit is partly due to the gaming segment, but also to sales of image sensors, both for smartphones and digital cameras. The industry responsible for this saw its sales volume increase by 21 percent and its profits increase by 188 percent in the last quarter, to 2.2 billion and 228.4 million euros, respectively.