The pre-sale orders for the PS5 in the first 12 hours in the US matched the sales numbers for the first 12 weeks of the PS4.
The NPD Group has published their predictions for holiday sales in 2020. The best-selling console will reportedly be the Nintendo Switch.
Sony has outlined further details of what backward compatibility will look like on the PlayStation 5 when it launches next month.
A recent study revealed that most of the gamers in the US who have pre-ordered a net-gen console have for a Playstation 5 standard edition.
Sony said that they expect to see seven million PlayStation 5 units sell by the end of the current financial year.
Sony is set to change the standard functions for the X and O buttons in Japan with the PlayStation 5.
Analysts beliveve that both Microsoft and Sony will sell 1.5 million units each of their next-gen consoles before the end of 2020 in the US.
When the PlayStation 5 went up for pre-order last week, both editions sold out quickly. The Digital Edition sold out much faster though.
There’s currently a trend growing among major publishers to push consumers to pay more for video games right now.
Sony reassures retailers, and consumers, that more PlayStation 5 stock will be made available in the coming months.