In an investor call, Sadahiko Hayakawa, Sony’s general manager of finance, said the company expects to sell 18 million PS5s by the end of the year, less than the near-22 million sold in 2023. Hayakawa noted that in the second half of the 4-year-old console’s generation, they expect PS5 unit sales to “gradually decline.”

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