PS5 passes 46.5M sales milestone, Spider-Man 2 slings 5M units

Sony has released its financial results for Q2 FY2023, and the report finds PlayStation 5 unit sales up 1.6 million over the previous quarter and solid figures for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.

In software, Sony noted that as of October 30, PlayStation’s most recent first-party release, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, has sold approximately five million units. The game sold over 2.5 million units during its first 24 hours, becoming the fastest-selling game in PlayStation Studios’ history during that timeframe.

Unit sales for first-party titles reached 4.7 million, down from 6.6 the previous quarter. When you combine first and third-party software, 67.6 units were sold during Q2 compared to 56.5 in Q1 of the current fiscal year. Sales in software were up 26% to ¥479 billion ($3.16 billion) year-over-year.