PS5 Sales Drop Nearly 50% Compared To This Time Last Year, But Has Still Shipped 93.7m Units – WGB

Saros launching? Pfft. Nah. GTA 6 releasing this yr? Nope. The hottest drop of the year is Sony’s newest financial report! May it presumably be anymore thrilling?

Sure, Sony has put out its latest monetary report masking This autumn 2025, which includes a 2nd impairment being filed against Bungie. There’s a variety of data to be discovered inside its boring gray pages, so let’s check out how the PS5 has been performing.

In complete, 93.7 million PlayStation 5’s have now been shipped, with 1.5m of these being in This autumn of 2025. This implies the PS5 is lagging barely behind the PS4, which at this level in its lifetime had bought 97m items.

This additionally means the PS5 continues to take a seat because the eighth best-selling console of all time. The Wii is in seventh with 101.63m, and the unique PlayStation is sixth at 102.49m. The PS4 is sitting fairly in fifth with 117.2m items.

This autumn proved to be fairly weak for PS5. 1.5m consoles shipped is a large drop from This autumn 2024 the place it shipped 2.8m consoles.

In complete, monetary yr 2025 noticed 16m consoles shipped, in comparison with monetary yr 2024’s 18.5m. Provided that we’re firmly into the consoles 6 yr of life, that’s in no way a stunning drop in gross sales.

Nevertheless, that This autumn drop from the identical time final yr is slightly shocking. At a look you’d most likely assume it’s linked to the latest value hike, however that truly occured after This autumn 2025, in order that doesn’t clarify it.

In reality, the worth hike will probably see a small upward bump within the subsequent financials as a result of there’s usually slightly surge in gross sales as folks rush to seize one whereas it’s nonetheless cheaper.

Elsewhere, the whole lot is comparatively flat. Sport gross sales are roughly the identical as they had been final yr, and PSN has apparently grown by one other million customers, bringing to round 125m. Sadly, they didn’t break down what number of of these are nonetheless PS4 customers, as a result of the final couple of occasions we’ve been provided that data there’s been much more than you’d assume.