PS4 Sales Hit 96.8 Million, PS5 Development Leads to Higher R&D Costs

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PS4 Sales Hit 96.8 Million, PS5 Development Leads to Higher R&D Costs for Sony

By Rishi Alwani | Updated: 26 April 2019 13:45 IST

PS4 Sales Hit 96.8 Million, PS5 Development Leads to Higher R&D Costs for Sony

Highlights

17.8 million PS4 consoles were sold in FY2018
16 million are forecasted for the next year
PSN revenue hit $12.8 billion in FY2018

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As for India, the PS4 has been the number one console in the country since it's launch. The widely accepted install base for the PS4 in India sits in the range of 380,000 to 400,000 units including grey market sales as well as the limited PS4 Pro sold via various channels (official or otherwise) sold till date, which has seen it sur the PS3 with which only mustered 350,000 units in its lifetime.

In conversation with Wired, systems architect Mark Cerny confirmed that the PS5 will have an AMD Ryzen U, Radeon Navi GPU, for ray tracing, and a solid state drive (SSD) that he touted to be a "game changer". This comes after an anonymous post from an alleged PS5 developer suggested a similar set of specifications earlier this week. However, with an SSD, we won't be surprised to see a higher price point.

According to Cerny, the PS5 will feature a U based on the third-generation of AMD's Ryzen line and contains eight cores of the company's new 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture. As for the GPU, it would be a custom variant of the AMD Radeon Navi family with ray tracing to boot. It will be backwards compatible with PS4 games as well.

While Sony has laid bare what to expect from the PS5 in of specifications, backwards compatibility, and the inclusion of a solid state drive in conversation with Wired, there was no mention of the console's price. Turns out that part of the discussion didn't make it to the story. According to Peter Rubin, Senior Correspondent at the publication, the PS5's price did come up in his meeting with Cerny.

"I believe that we will be able to release it at an SRP [suggested retail price] that will be appealing to gamers in light of its advanced feature set," Cerny PS4's price revealed at E3 2013 in June with the console shipping in November. Chances are we're in for a similar situation this time around.

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