Enterprise is as soon as once more booming for Sony, as the corporate introduced that lifetime gross sales of the PS5 console have reached 80.3 million models shipped as of June 30, 2025. This new determine comes from Sony’s quarterly results for its present monetary yr, with the corporate including that 2.5 million consoles have been shipped throughout that three-month interval, a rise of 100,000 when in comparison with the identical interval throughout the earlier monetary yr.
The PlayStation Community has additionally grown, with Sony reporting that the subscriber quantity has elevated to 123 million customers. In comparison with final yr’s numbers throughout the identical quarter, this quantity has grown by 7 million subscribers. In the video games division, PS5 and PS4 software program reached a mixed whole of 65.9 million copies offered, a rise of 12,3 million models year-on-year.
First-party video games counted for six.9 million, an increase of 900,000 in comparison with final yr. The way forward for sport gross sales can be wanting more and more digital, as Sony says that 83% of software program gross sales have been digital downloads.
Whereas this does pale compared to Sony’s best-ever gross sales quarter, issues are wanting good for Sony these days. The corporate introduced final month that it intends to take a position roughly $463 million in Bandai Namco as a part of a strategic partnership, giving it a 2.5% possession stake within the huge video games writer. In the meantime, Nintendo’s new console technology is off to a flying begin with 6 million Swap 2 consoles being offered globally within the seven weeks because it launched, whereas Microsoft stays as cagey as ever with the numbers associated to its Xbox enterprise.
In a couple of months, the PS5 will have a good time its fifth-anniversary, and whereas Sony hasn’t spoken a couple of {hardware} successor but, a couple of current developments have given us a couple of clues on what we will anticipate from a possible PlayStation 6 console.