PlayStation in 2015: Goodwill ensured that the party continued

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Sony had its Great Gatsby moment at this year's E3 - and not the whole 'boats against the current' part. With the likes of Shenmue, Final Fantasy 7 and The Last Guardian, Shawn Layden played the role of Jay, throwing shirt after beautiful shirt high into the sky. Kickstarters! Remakes! Cat-birds! Dazzling!
And, as with Gatsby himself, there's a question of where all this success has come from. The PS4 remains comfortably ahead of Xbox One in terms of every metric that matters. But what, exactly, is Sony getting so right? And can the party continue for a whole generation?
According to the numbers, it probably can. Reading back through a year of PS4 news, it's only the astonishing sales figures that truly leap out. 18.5 million units sold worldwide: that's a report from January, which also chucks in the fact that 81.8 million games have been purchased and 10.9 million people subscribe to PlayStation Plus. By March, the global console tally is 20.2 million - the fastest and strongest growth in PlayStation hardware history, apparently - and by April it's 22.3 million.
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