Amid a reminiscence scarcity that compelled it to raise PS5 costs twice in lower than a 12 months, Sony bought simply 1.5 million PS5s in its fourth fiscal quarter, down 46 % from the 12 months earlier than. The corporate was comparatively gloomy about its gaming division’s prospects subsequent 12 months too, forecasting that income would fall six % ($1.69 billion).
General, Sony’s gaming division income was up barely for your entire fiscal 2025 12 months with gross sales of 4.69 trillion yen ($29.9 billion) in comparison with 4.67 trillion yen ($29.8 billion) the earlier 12 months. Working earnings was up 12 % to 463.3 billion yen ($2.95 billion), thanks partially to a rise in PlayStation Community gross sales.
A few of Sony’s income and revenue points this 12 months had been all the way down to impairment losses with Bungie because of Future 2′s poor sales. With out these prices on its again subsequent 12 months (plus the anticipated blockbuster launch of Grand Theft Auto VI in November), the corporate expects a 30 % enhance in income for its subsequent fiscal 12 months regardless of the income drop.
Nonetheless, these forecasts will rely on its capability to acquire reminiscence. “We plan to base our PS5 {hardware} gross sales in FY26 on the amount of reminiscence we are able to procure at cheap costs and we
anticipate {hardware} profitability to be basically the identical as FY25,” Sony mentioned. In its earlier earnings report, the corporate revealed that it had secured the minimal reminiscence it wanted to accommodate gross sales for the 2026 vacation season.
That could be chilly consolation to PS5 followers, although, contemplating that a regular PS5 is way from inexpensive at $650 after the March 2026 value hike, up $150 from only a 12 months in the past. That is for a nearly six-year-old console that is inexorably approaching its finish of life. Nintendo was going by means of the identical factor with its growing older Change console early final 12 months, however the June 2025 Change 2 launch utterly modified its fortunes, changing into the fastest-selling Nintendo console ever.
