Sony has posted its own quarterly financial report, revealing that PS5 shipments have now reached 92.2 million units, up from 84.2 million units declared in the previous quarter. This means that Sony sold 8 million PlayStation 5 consoles in its fiscal Q3, a rather significant (-15.8%) decrease from Q3 2024.
This is only slightly offset by marginally better PS5 shipments in Q1 and Q2 2025 compared to the previous year. Overall, in FY 2024, Sony had shipped 15.7 million units as of Q3, whereas this year, the total fiscal year sales to date amount to 14.4 million units, or -8.3%.
Despite the downward trajectory, cumulative PS5 shipments are not at all far from where the PlayStation 4 was at the same point in its lifecycle. The PS4 had sold 94.4 million units, but it also faced far less adversity than the PS5 did; the most recent Sony console had to deal with the semiconductor shortage at first, and now the memory shortages aren't helping, either.
It's far from all bad news for the PlayStation division, though. Full game software sales (between PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5) increased to 97.2 million units sold, up 1.4% compared to last year. That's mostly thanks to first-party sales, which reached 13.2 million units in the quarter, a 13.8% increase compared to 2024's 11.6 million units.
Of course, the game leading the charge was Ghost of Yōtei by Sucker Punch Productions, by far the biggest PS5 exclusive game released in FY 2025. Indeed, during the FY2025 Q3 earnings call, Sony Chief Financial Officer Lin Tao shared that the game has exceeded the sales of its predecessor, Ghost of Tsushima, when launch aligned.
Sony did not provide an actual update to sales figures. However, we know that Ghost of Tsushima sold 2.4 million units in the first three days, but only reached 5 million units 118 days (nearly four months) after launch. By contrast, Ghost of Yotei sold 3.3 million units in 32 days. This means Tsushima must have taken slightly longer to reach that milestone. Even if it's only a marginal improvement, though, it's actually more meaningful when you consider that Tsushima was released at the height of the COVID pandemic and benefited from a much larger install base than Ghost of Yōtei. Given these positive sales figures, it's hard to imagine Sony won't greenlight a Ghost of Yōtei DLC, and indeed, the developers have already suggested there's a chance it will happen.
At some point in 2026, Sucker Punch is scheduled to launch the Legends online co-op mode. It is also believed that the debut of Legends might coincide with the game's PC launch, though that's just speculation for now.
About the author: With over two decades of experience in gaming journalism, Alessio Palumbo has led the gaming vertical at Wccftech since August 2015. He started working at a young age for Italian websites like Everyeye.it, Gamestar.it, Nextgame.it, and Multiplayer.it before kickstarting the indie English-language publication Worlds Factory as its founder and Editor in Chief. In the last decade, he has coordinated the overall output of Wccftech's gaming section, managed PR relations, assigned reviews, produced daily news coverage, edited gaming content as needed, and delivered game reviews. Arguably, his trademark content is the long series of exclusive developer interviews that have been cited by Wikipedia and by the biggest news media and gaming publications. His passion for technology also makes him knowledgeable when it comes to gaming hardware and tech. His favorite genres include RPGs, MMORPGs, and action/adventure games.
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