Sony simply revealed new gross sales numbers for PS5, and set expectations on what sorts of video games will likely be coming sooner or later for the console.
In a brand new financial report from Sony, the corporate stated it shipped 3.8 million PS5 consoles in the course of the second quarter of the fiscal 12 months from July 2024 to September 2024. That was 29% drop from the identical time interval final 12 months. The brand new lifetime whole items shipped is now 65.5 million, making the quantity simply shy of the 67.5 million PS4 items shipped when it was in the identical interval of its lifespan.
On the intense facet, Sport & Community Providers division introduced in about $7 billion, a 12% year-over-year enhance. Sony attributed this to third-party video games on the PS5 platform, together with “an motion RPG title from China,” which is almost definitely referring to Black Fable: Wukong. The sport offered 18 million copies throughout the first two weeks of launch.
Sony’s Community companies income elevated 18% year-over-year throughout the identical time interval final 12 months. In keeping with Sony, this was a results of subscribers becoming a member of increased tiers of PlayStation Plus and elevated subscription costs.
Sony additionally commented on its upcoming portfolio of releases, saying that it’ll proceed to have a mixture of each single-player and multiplayer video games. It acknowledged that whereas Helldivers 2 was an enormous success, the cancellation of The Final of Us multiplayer recreation and removing of Harmony offered classes on how you can transfer ahead with its live-service plans.
Sony beforehand said that it might not have any extra main first-party releases till April 2025. Nonetheless, the single-player follow-up to Ghost of Tsushima, Ghost of Yotei, is slated for subsequent 12 months, and Haven Studio’s live-service recreation, Fairgames, remains to be in growth.