Saros launching? Pfft. Nah. GTA 6 releasing this year? Nope. The hottest drop of the year is Sony’s newest financial report! Could it possibly be anymore exciting?
Yes, Sony has put out its newest financial report covering Q4 2025, which includes a 2nd impairment being filed against Bungie. There’s a lot of information to be found within its dull grey pages, so let’s take a look at how the PS5 has been performing.
In total, 93.7 million PlayStation 5’s have now been shipped, with 1.5m of those being in Q4 of 2025. This means the PS5 is lagging slightly behind the PS4, which at this point in its lifetime had sold 97m units.
This also means the PS5 continues to sit as the 8th best-selling console of all time. The Wii is in 7th with 101.63m, and the original PlayStation is 6th at 102.49m. The PS4 is sitting pretty in 5th with 117.2m units.
Q4 proved to be quite weak for PS5. 1.5m consoles shipped is a massive drop from Q4 2024 where it shipped 2.8m consoles.
In total, financial year 2025 saw 16m consoles shipped, compared to financial year 2024’s 18.5m. Given that we are firmly into the consoles 6 year of life, that’s not at all a shocking drop in sales.
However, that Q4 drop from the same time last year is a little surprising. At a glance you’d probably assume it’s linked to the recent price hike, but that actually occured after Q4 2025, so that doesn’t explain it.
In fact, the price hike will likely see a small upward bump in the next financials because there’s normally a little surge in sales as people rush to grab one while it’s still cheaper.
Elsewhere, everything is relatively flat. Game sales are roughly the same as they were last year, and PSN has apparently grown by another million users, bringing to around 125m. Sadly, they didn’t break down how many of those are still PS4 users, because the last couple of times we’ve been given that information there’s been a lot more than you would think.
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