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Sony announced during its latest financial results overnight that PS4 has shipped 76.5 million units worldwide (via DualShockers). The company’s flagship telly box moved nine million units in the three-month period ended December 31, though sales were down some 700,000 year-on-year.
The announcement comes in wake of Kaz Hirai’s decision to step down from his role as Sony CEO in April, and brings the PS4 even closer to surpassing the PS3’s lifetime sales of 83.8 million. Sony’s FY 2017 wraps on March 31, at which point it hopes to have shipped 79 million PS4 consoles worldwide.Â
Overall it was a pretty solid quarter for the Japanese electronics giant, with PlayStation software sales boosting profits for the gaming division to 718 billion yen. Right now, the PS4 is the undisputed champ in terms of the global hardware battle between Sony and Microsoft, with the latter no longer divulging sales figures for Xbox One.
The PS4 launched in November 2013 in the UK and US and arrived in Japan the following February.Â
