Katarzyna Petru
According to insider-gaming, Sony has recorded another important sales achievement related to the PlayStation 5 console. The latest financial report indicates that in the third quarter of the fiscal year 2025, the company sold approximately 8 million units of the PS5, exceeding the barrier of 90 million consoles sold worldwide. At the same time, Sony points out that year-on-year sales are down by about 1.5 million consoles, as the result in the corresponding quarter of the previous year was higher. Despite the slight slowdown, the PS5 remains one of the greatest hardware successes in the history of the PlayStation brand.
Sony boasts new data
In addition to impressive console sales, Sony has also revealed new data concerning the entire PlayStation ecosystem. Total game sales on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 have reached 97.2 million copies, a figure that includes titles added to the consoles as well as productions for PlayStation VR. At the same time, the user base of PlayStation Network is growing – at the end of the third quarter of the fiscal year 2025, there were 132 million active accounts using the service, indicating an increase compared to the same period last year.
The data shows that despite a slower pace of hardware sales, the activity of gamers and software sales remain a strong point for the PlayStation brand.
source: insider-gaming.com
