Sony has revealed that the PS5 sales have surpassed 40 million units after a little under 3 years since its launch. The company unveiled that the PS5 hardware sales exceeded 40 million on July 16.

Despite facing a setback from the COVID-19 pandemic, the PS5 seems to be performing really well. Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO noted the challenges the company faced due to the global pandemic but assures that the PS5 is now “well-stocked” and that the demand is finally being met. Ryan also reveals that PS5 has over 2,500 games including indie games and AAA blockbuster titles.

Find the full announcement below:

We launched PlayStation 5 in November 2020 and the world was in a strange and different place than when we announced the console in 2019. Despite the unprecedented challenges of COVID, our teams and our partners worked diligently to deliver PS5 on time. We continued to face headwinds with the pandemic, and it took months for supply chains to normalize so we could have the inventory to keep up with demand. For more months than I care to remember, we kept thanking our community for their patience while working through these issues. But now PS5 supply is well-stocked and we are seeing that pent up demand finally being met.

With the support of PlayStation fans, we have reached a milestone of 40 million PS5 consoles sold through to gamers since launch. Thank you so much to our community of gamers – without you this would have been an impossible task.

PS5 launched with the best catalog of games in our history and the momentum for great content keeps getting stronger. From innovative indie games to AAA blockbusters, there are more than 2,500 PS5 games now available, and it has never been a better time to experience PS5 In the last two months alone, we have seen incredible new games from our partners, including Final Fantasy XVI, Diablo IV, and Street Fighter 6.

If you’re thinking of grabbing a brand-new PS5, then there are quite a few new hardware accessory options for you to explore. The DualSense Edge offers a higher-end gaming experience with customizable features, the PSVR2 will let you enjoy modern VR games, and the PS5 Access Controller releasing in December, giving players more options to play.

Ryan notes that these additional accessories, hardware, and the first-party studios have all contributed in PS5 reaching the 40 million mark:

We developed PS5 with our community at the forefront of our thinking, which led us to deliver innovations like the adaptive triggers and haptic feedback in the DualSense controller, as well as PlayStation VR2. PlayStation Studios and our third-party partners have jumped in to take advantage of these capabilities and expand their creative toolkit to deliver a generational leap in the experiences they bring to gamers.

With Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 swinging out in October, the supply issues seemingly fixed, and the reported PS5 promotional sale across various regions, now may be the best time for you to get your hands on a PS5.

Source: Sony Interactive Entertainment