Sony sells 5.3 mn PlayStation 4 consoles, exceeds full-year target

Sony Corp said it has sold 5.3 million PlayStation 4 game consoles as of February 8, surpassing its full-year target ahead of its release in Japan next week.

After releasing the PlayStation 4 on November 29 in the United States, Western Europe and Latin America, the company had said it hoped to sell 5 million units by the end of March 2014. It has since rolled out the console across other Asian countries too.

The PlayStation 4 console will go on sale in Japan on February 22, the last country currently scheduled to handle the device.

Microsoft Corp in January had said it had sold more than 3 million of its Xbox One console by the end of December, after it was also released in late November.

(Reuters)