You probably already knew the PS4 was popular even if you're not all that big on gaming, but even so, it's hard not to be impressed by the sales figures Sony just released.
According to Sony's own estimates, it's sold around 70.7 million PS4 units worldwide. That's a huge number no matter how you cut it, but it's especially remarkable in that the number counts units that were actually sold rather than merely shipped. In addition, Sony announced customers have bought more than 2 million PlayStation VR units.
Emerging reality
The 2 million units for the PlayStation VR may not sound that impressive by comparison, but that's a huge number, considering how much virtual reality developers have struggled to garner the kind of interest early visionaries foresaw.
It helps that the PSVR has a number of advantages over the competing Oculus Rift and HTC Vive in that it's relatively inexpensive, it works with an already popular gaming system and it's easy to hook up.
Game sales were impressive as well. Sony reported that 617 million PS4 games have been bought so far, and that 12 million games have been bought specifically for the PSVR.
Sony unfortunately didn't give any specific figures on how well the relatively new PS4 Pro has been selling, but as The Verge reports, back in June it claimed that one in every five PS4 units sold was a PS4 Pro.