PS5 Ships 77.8 Million Units as of March 2025 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 May 2025 / 7,766 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment in its financial results announced it has shipped 77.8 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of March 31, 2025.
With 77.8 million PlayStation 5 consoles shipped that means 2.8 million units were shipped from January to March. This is down 1.7 million from the same quarter in 2024 when 4.5 million units were shipped.
For reference, the PlayStation 4 had shipped 2.5 million units in the same quarter for a lifetime total of 79.2 million units shipped as of March 31, 2018. This puts the PS5 behind shipped PS4 units by 1.4 million units.
There were a total of 76.1 million games sold on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 for the quarter. This is up 3.5 million from 72.6 million during the same period a year earlier. Digital sales accounted for 80 percent of software sales.
There were 5.9 million first-party games sold across the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. This is down 6.4 million from 12.3 million a year ago.
There were 124 million monthly active users on the PlayStation Network, an increase of 6 million from 118 million a year ago.
Sony forecasts it will ship 15 million PlayStation 5 consoles for the current fiscal year that runs from April 2025 to March 2026. That would put lifetime shipment figures at 92.8 million units at the end of March 2026. To compare, the PlayStation 4 had shipped 97 million units by the same amount of time, which would put the PlayStation 5 4.2 million units shipped behind the PlayStation 4.
Sony's Game & Network Services Segment for the quarter ending March 31, 2025, reported revenue decreased 46.1 billion yen ($0.31 billion) year-over-year to 1,051.3 billion yen ($7.14 billion), while operating income decreased 13.3 billion yen ($0.09 billion) to 92.7 billion yen ($0.63 billion).
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For the PS5 to reach the PS4's numbers, Sony would have to release great first-party games, but it seems that this is not a priority in Sony's incompetent management. They could release a collection with all the old God of War games.
Imagine if all those billions, wasted on live service vaporware, was used to make good single player games.
If anything their sales from the past year show people will buy PS for 3rd party games, not 1st party.
It's sure to pass all the 80-90 million club by the end of the calendar year, even PS3.
I'll be surprised if it's only at 84-85 million by January 1.
Is the PS5 under tracked here by about 500k then?
Current numbers indicate a 2.7m gap between shipped and sold-through as of March 31st, 2025.
Seems plausible to me, with maybe a little tendency leaning forward to being undertracked by a very small margin.
Depending on how big we assume the amount is Sony ships to retailers to have PS5 in stock globally.
With 77.8 million PlayStation 5 consoles shipped that means 2.8 million units were shipped from October to December.
Don't you mean from January to March?
You are right. I copied the previous quarters article and updated the figures. I missed that one. I've fixed the typo.
Strictly my opinion, which I know won't be agreed with, is that this should be concerning for Sony / gaming industry overall. Consoles really have plateau'd, and I worry gamers continue to age with youth not picking up the same.
We'll see what GTA6 does. I miss great Sony first-party titles so much this gen.
(April 1st, 2024 - March 31, 2025)
-PlayStation 5 : 18.5M
-Nintendo Switch : 10.8M
-Xbox Series X|S : 3.5M
(Forecast Next Fiscal Year)
-PlayStation 5 : 15.0M
-Nintendo Switch : 4.5M
-Xbox Series X|S : ?
Don’t forget 15M for Nintendo Switch 2. Thx
I wish they would break down the units so we could get an idea the percentage of people buying the PS5 Pro. You can't get a good idea of how the price may be affecting it's sales unless we could see it compared to the PS4 Pro.
I've updated the article to include Sony's forecast, which wasn't out when this was originally posted.
"Sony forecasts it will ship 15 million PlayStation 5 consoles for the current fiscal year that runs from April 2025 to March 2026."
Damn. For the fiscal year.
Is it only me or is that quite a hint at new price hikes incoming?
That's a pretty conservative forecast for a gaming fiscal year like 2025.
Which in my perceiption seems to be way stronger than 2024.
Interesting how they see PS5 will now be losing ground again quite considerably compared to PS4.
After it's been fighting back heroically and catching up over the last 21 months.
It is possible they are being conservative like Nintendo is with Switch 2.
They did 18.5 million this past fiscal year, so 15 million sounds about right since the PS5 is now in it's later years. The PS5 reached it's peak in 2023.
I don't think there's anything special about this fiscal year. Lots of great games but nothing that screams system seller, nor any especially big mega franchises like GTA (thats next fiscal year)... Steady decline from this point out makes sense
Any news about a supposed PlayStation showcase?
there was a recent boost to sales too after the gta6 2nd trailer but also I saw something rare at my walmart which is very few ps5s. I think they might running out of the ones they stockpiled before the tariffs and will finally be importing the ones with the tariffs on in large droves so price increase soon? I also havent seen an xbox in two-three weeks at my local walmart either.
Doesnt seem like a lot tbh gee i wonder why with that insanely high pricetag
the PS5 will sell well over 100M consoles all said and done
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