A record 2.1 million Sony PlayStation 4 game consoles have been sold throughout the world since the machine tallied one million in sales within its first 24 hours PC Magazine reported Tuesday.
"It's an impressive and record-setting accomplishment for our company and for our industry, and we couldn't have done it without you," Andrew House, president and group chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment said in a blog post PC Magazine reported. "The best part: the PS4 journey has just begun. In addition to an incredible lineup of PS4 games from the best developers in the world, we will continue to introduce valuable new features and services to PS4 in the months and years ahead."
Two-hundred and fifty thousand consumers bought the game console within a two-hour time span, when it first hit stores in the United Kingdom. The high number resulted in $87 million in sales revenue according to The Telegraph.
The $399 game console has eight x86 CPU-codes titled Jaguar, and is manufactured from Advanced Micro Devices according to Network World. It also comes equipped with upgraded graphics coprocessors capable of handling 1.84 teraflops of performance.
The machine has 500 gigabyte hard drive that can play blu-ray DVDs. There are also eight gigabytes of GDDR5 memory or quick network speed random access memory found in graphics cards. Game makers put 176 gigabytes of network speed a second on the machine since they wanted the computer to run faster.
PlayStation 4 also comes equipped with 11 apps including Amazon Instant Video, Netflix, Hulu Plus. Crackle, Crunchyroll, Epix, NBA Game Time, NHL GameCenter LIVE, Redbox Instant by Verizon, Vudu, and YuppTV.
Sony's previous game console models are the PSone, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 in various sizes. There is also the Playstation Vita, which users can hold by hand.
