He also compared this fiscal year’s predicted shipments of twenty million PS4 consoles to the historical record for the PlayStation brand.
This means that this year the PS4 would need to ship 2.52 millions above Sony’s current expectations in order to beat the previous record.
It’s actually very close: in the fiscal year ended on March 31st 2003 the PS2 shipped 22.52 million units.
Sales have been going “smoothly” so far, and while the rate of growth is expected to slow down during the current fiscal year, profitability should improve.