The PlayStation 5 simply crossed a big milestone. Sony has revealed that it has offered 10 million PS5 consoles as of July 18th, eight months after the system’s November twelfth debut. The firm thought of that no imply feat between the pandemic and ongoing chip shortages that reportedly held gross sales again. It’s now Sony’s fastest-selling console to this point, outpacing the PS4 by almost a month.

Sales have slowed down since launch. Sony racked up 4.5 million PS5 gross sales in 2020, however offered 3.3 million within the first quarter of 2021 — it took one other 4 months so as to add 2.2 million to the tally. That’s not stunning between provide constraints and the standard mid-year stoop, however you may not see gross sales climb till the vacations.

PlayStation chief Jim Ryan instructed GamesIndustry.biz in an interview that it was “too early to tell” which markets have been the most popular given widespread demand, however identified that China was a nice shock. The firm offered out its PS5 launch inventory “very, very quickly” regardless of a neighborhood market targeted on cell video games and the free-to-play mannequin.

The PS5 does not have a simple highway forward. Even if Sony might shortly overcome {hardware} shortages, it nonetheless has a dearth of PS5-exclusive titles outdoors of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Returnal. The largest video games are typically enhanced variations of video games accessible for the PS4, like Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and even upcoming blockbusters like Horizon Forbidden West may have PS4 releases. While demand nonetheless seems to be brisk, there may not be a lot added incentive to purchase a PS5 till Gran Turismo 7 and different system exclusives arrive in power.