New information from Sony’s 2025 company report reveals that digital software program and add-on content material made up 49% of PlayStation’s income in 2024. The numbers emphasize the significance of live-service video games and digital storefront to the trendy video gaming market, although Sony reaffirms its dedication to “advancing place as inventive leaders in single-player expertise.” Moreover, {hardware} made up 24% of total earnings and community providers is at 14%.
The report lists bodily software program income at 3% of total earnings. Nevertheless, that doesn’t signify the true proportion of bodily PlayStation video games bought in 2024. As analyst Daniel Ahmad identified on X, Sony listed 3% as a result of it solely totally counts first-party sport income, counting solely royalties from third-party video games. Ahmad elaborated that bodily video games made up 24% of total PlayStation sport gross sales, including as much as 73 million bodily video games bought.
The % breakdown will be barely deceptive right here, even when the general image is usually correct.
For instance, bodily at 3% is as a result of Sony solely acknowledges full income from first social gathering video games, whereas it acknowledges a decrease royalty worth from third social gathering video games.
That is… https://t.co/z550hRtVRj— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) September 15, 2025
In keeping with the report, persons are spending extra and taking part in video games extra on the PlayStation platform as in comparison with current years. In 2024, PlayStation gamers spent a complete of 51 billion hours taking part in, a 14% enhance from 2022. Life-to-date spend, a quantity which represents the typical amount of cash spent per lively console over the primary 5 years of its cycle, sits at $846. Examine that to the PS4’s common of $669.
The report lays out Sony’s plans to be used of AI and LLMs, together with utilizing the tech for enforcement of copyright and for upscaling the decision of movie, TV, and video video games. The company report additional touts the enlargement of PlayStation IP in movie and tv and emphasizes plans to proceed that enlargement. Relatedly, upcoming Naughty Canine sport Intergalatic: The Heretic Prophet has already garnered some Hollywood consideration.