Sony Forecasts PS5 Shipments Of 18 Million During The Next Fiscal Year

Sony Interactive Entertainment has forecast 18 million PS5 shipments for the financial year ended March 2023, marking a significant leap over the 11.5 million units shifted during the current fiscal period.

That’s obviously a massive number of consoles to move, and presumably the hardware manufacturer is expecting console availability to improve during this time, otherwise it surely won’t be able to hit such a lofty target.

Sony revealed during its financial report today that it has shipped a grand total of 19.3 million PS5s to date. Furthermore, PS Plus subscribers stand at around 47.4 million, which is down slightly on the previous year.

Sony announces they expect to ship 18 Million PlayStation 5 consoles in the next Fiscal Year (April 2022 - March 2023)

That would be huge jump over last years 11.5 Million PS5s

Hope this happens, would be GREAT news for the industry to see hardware availability improve pic.twitter.com/3tQYPcokzg
— Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) May 10, 2022

Sony launched the PS5 in November 2020 amidst the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, although the console still managed to sell out quickly. However, the system has been plagued by stock shortages ever since, although retailers are managing to restock the PS5 on a semi-regular basis now.