Sony Has Sold 84.2 Million Playstation 5s Since Launch

It's been conscionable complete a twelvemonth since Sony launched nan updated PS5 Slim and PS5 Pro consoles, truthful how's that going fixed Sony's pessimistic outlook successful May? Pretty well, judging by nan company's latest earnings report. Sony sold much PlayStation 5s past 4th than it did a twelvemonth agone (3.9 cardinal compared to 3.8 million), boosting full PS5 income to 84.2 cardinal since launch. Sony besides expects much gross from its gaming (G&NS) section than it antecedently forecast.

Back successful May, Sony predicted a ¥100 cardinal ($700 million) deed to gross successful fiscal twelvemonth 2025 owed to tariffs, fixed that astir of its income hap successful nan US. Another cardinal rustle was nan hold of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto VI motorboat that was first pushed backmost to May 2026 and was precocious delayed again until November 19, 2026.

However, Sony now expects to waste much hardware than it thought and make ¥4.47 trillion successful gaming gross ($29 billion) for its afloat twelvemonth ending March 31, 2026 — up ¥150 cardinal ($973 million) from its past forecast. That figure, would beryllium somewhat beneath its afloat twelvemonth 2024 income of ¥4.670 trillion ($30.3 billion), but it's still awesome for a astir 5 twelvemonth aged console that has seen aggregate value hikes. .

In position of crippled sales, nan main item was Ghost of Yotei, which sold 3.3 cardinal units arsenic of November 2, 2025, conscionable a period aft it launched. The institution sold 6.3 cardinal first-party games crossed PS5 and PS4 (up 1 cardinal compared to past year) and 80.3 cardinal games total.

As for PlayStation Network, monthly progressive users deed 119 million, up 3 cardinal from past twelvemonth astatine this time. Sony doesn't break retired PS Plus Premium subscribers, but that work conscionable launched a caller characteristic that lets you stream games you own complete nan unreality connected nan PlayStation Portal.