Sony Says Its Best-Selling PS5 Game Is Still Coming

5 years into the PS5 lifecycle, Sony is assured that the best-selling recreation of all time for the system has but to be launched. In a brand new interview, PlayStation’s senior VP of promoting, gross sales, and enterprise operations, Eric Lempel, spoke about how the PS5 period has simply began to search out its ft, and he has an thought of what the console’s biggest-selling recreation shall be.

“I might say we’re actually hitting our stride now,” Lempel stated to BBC News. As for the sport that would be the PS5’s gross sales juggernaut? “I am not going to inform you which one, however I feel it is nonetheless to come back,” Lempel added.

Within the US, Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 is presently the best-selling PS5 recreation, with Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 in second place. A number of extra video games are in growth for the console, together with Marvel’s Wolverine and Saros. Whereas these video games are anticipated to promote nicely, it is the upcoming launch of GTA 6 that analysts are predicting shall be a blockbuster of notice. Even with it being delayed to November 2026, hype for GTA 6 nonetheless stays off the charts. Its predecessor, GTA 5, is the second-best-selling recreation of all time–220 million items shipped as of November 2025–and it will be coming again to the PS Plus Game Catalog later this month.

Lifetime gross sales of the PS5 have reached 84.2 million consoles offered to date, and Sony CFO Lin Tao prompt that the PS5 might have solely reached the midway level of its lifespan. Sony’s latest traders report additionally confirmed that Ghost of Yotei has offered 3.3 million copies since launch, however the firm has taken a $204 million hit attributable to Future 2 falling in need of gross sales expectations.