Sony hasn’t really missed a beat in its transition from the PS4 to the PS5 where hardware sales are concerned, with the company’s current-gen console consistently selling solid numbers, and though it’s highly unlikely that it will manage to beat the PS2’s lifetime sales total of 160 million units, outgoing PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan says that the PS5 is still very much on track to become the company’s “most successful console ever” by other metrics.
Ryan did not go into detail on which vectors Sony is looking at when it projects the PS5 to become its most successful console ever.
At the time, Sony Group president, COO, and CFO Hiroki Totoki – who is also set to replace Ryan as Interim CEO of PlayStation – also said that PS5 sales were expected to slow down going forward.
“We’ve been really clear and really consistent about what we stand for great consoles, great console gaming experience, and great games.