It was a happy holiday season for Sony as the company announced strong sales for its PlayStation 4. With more than 5.6 million units sold globally during the 2018 holiday season, the PS4's lifetime sales have now surpassed more than 91.6 million units worldwide, as of December 31, 2018.
Now over five years old, the PS4 sales have already surpassed that of the PlayStation 3, which sold 84 million units before it was discontinued. Still, it has quite a ways to go before it catches the PlayStation 2, Sony's best-selling console with more than 155 million units sold in its lifetime. The original PlayStation sold 102.5 million units.
Sony also noted that more than 50.7 million PS4 games were sold through during the 2018 holiday season, pushing its global cumulative total to over 876 million as of December 31, 2018. One of its most notable titles, Insomniac's
Marvel's Spider-Man had sold more than nine million copies as of November 25, 2018. The 2018 Game of the Year nominee
had become the fastest-selling superhero game in U.S. history back in December, beating out some of the genre's biggest heavyweights like Rocksteady's
Batman: Arkham series. It's also PlayStation's fastest-selling exclusive of all time, which is an incredible feat when you consider the portfolio of games.
Looking ahead, it looks like the PS4 has at least another year or two before conversations start to really shift towards the inevitable PlayStation 4. Remember, we still have Naughty Dog's highly anticipated
The Last of Us Part II to look forward to.