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Sony predicts 5 million PS4s sold by March 2014

Sony has told attendees at the Tokyo Game Show that it intends to sell 5 million of its next-gen consoles by 31 March 2014.

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At the Sony press conference at the Tokyo Game Show, Sony Computer Entertainment president Andrew House has set a sales target of 5 million PlayStation 4s sold by 31 March 2014.

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That date marks the end of Sony's current financial year, and the PS4 will have launched in most major markets by that stage. Unusually, for a Sony product, the PS4 will not launch in Japan until February, with the US, Europe and Australia getting the console in November.

Sony has previously claimed, back in early August, that it has already received 1 million pre-orders for the console.