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Sony has now sold 75m PS5 consoles and has record monthly users


Sales of Sony's PS5 console have now reached 75m units, which is just shy of PS4 sales after an equivalent period.

The number of monthly active users on PlayStation Network was 129m in the last quarter - that's a record high, and a 43 percent increase from December 2017. What's more, 42 percent of PS5 purchasers in the last quarter were new PlayStation Network users, thereby showing an increase in the overall userbase. PS Plus revenue also increased by 20 percent year-on-year, which the company attributed to users moving to higher tiers.

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