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Title: PS5 sales have passed the 80 million mark

Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:11:32 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/gaming/ps5-sales-hav...

The PS5 might be lacking the cadence of first-party exclusives that made its
predecessor so successful, but that doesnΓÇÖt appear to be slowing it down.
Sony has announced that the console had shifted just north of 80 million
units as of June 30, 2025. This puts it just behind the Xbox 360 (84 million)
and well on the way to overtaking the PS3 (around 87 million) in lifetime
sales.

The 80.3 million figure was confirmed in SonyΓÇÖs first set of quarterly
results for the current financial year, during which time it sold 2.5 million
PS5s, a slight downturn from 2.8 million in the previous quarter. Compared to
the same period in the last financial year, however, the company has actually
shifted around 100,000 more consoles in the last three months.

Sony also sold approximately 66 million PS4 and PS5 games this quarter,
almost 7 million of which were first-party titles. ThatΓÇÖs around a 12
million year-on-year increase in overall software sales. Digital accounted
for 83 percent of PS4 and PS5 games sold in the last quarter, which is a
larger share than in any three-month period in the previous financial year.

The last few years saw Sony briefly shift its focus towards live service
games, but one of those was a well-documented disaster, and others have since
been cancelled. Clearly none of that has noticeably hurt software sales,
though, as Sony has continued to grow in that area.

The PS5 turns five this November, and attention will then turn to whether it
will hit the all-important 100 million mark in its lifetime. The PS4 managed
that in five years and seven months, and at the time it was the fastest
console to reach that number. It also didnΓÇÖt have to contend with tariffs.
PS5 prices increased in the UK, Australia and New Zealand earlier this year,
with Sony blaming a ΓÇ£challenging economic environmentΓÇ¥ in which it is
fighting against high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates. The company
has since said it is not ruling out moving PS5 manufacturing to the US in the
future.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/ps5-sales-hav...
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