Sony Has Sold Over 84 Million PlayStation 5 Consoles

Sony announced this morning that it has now sold over 84 million PlayStation 5 consoles worldwide, thanks to 3.9 million units sold in the most recent quarter. The PS5 hasn’t just outsold the Xbox Series X|S, and handily. It’s now outsold every Xbox console generation that Microsoft has ever made.

The sales milestone came as part of Sony’s fiscal year 2025 second quarter earnings. Sony reported that it earned an operating profit of ¥429 billion (about $2.8 billion USD) on revenues of ¥3.1 trillion (about $20 billion USD) in that quarter.

Sony’s Game & Network Services business is responsible for PlayStation, and it delivered an operating income of ¥120 billion on revenues of almost ¥1.1 trillion. Of that, ¥320 million was attributed to console and other hardware sales, ¥639 million from game software (¥568 million of which came from digital software and add-on content), and ¥183 million was from network services.

“Our PlayStation platform continues to demonstrate its strength as the best place to play and the best place to publish,” Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Hideaki Nishino said. “We plan to expand the PlayStation 5 hardware installed base during the year-end sales season while continuing to balance that expansion with the profitability of the entire segment.”

The success of the PS5 comes despite worldwide and U.S. price hikes in 2025. And though sales of the console likely peaked in fiscal year 2023 at 20.8 million, it sold another 18.5 million units in FY24, which ended this past March. And then another 6.4 million units since then.

At 84 million units, PS5 sales are just shy of the 87.4 million PlayStation 3 units it sold in that console’s lifetime. So it’s likely that lifetime sales of the PS5 will trail the OG PlayStation (102 million units), PS2 (160 million), and PS4 (117 million) when this generation runs its course.

Sony also sold 80.3 million game titles across PS4 and PS5 in the quarter, up from the 77.7 million units in the same quarter one year ago. Of those, 6.3 million were first party titles, up from the 5.3 million one year ago. 72 percent of those sales were digital, compared to 70 percent a year ago.

And Sony now counts 119 million monthly active users (MAUs) of its PlayStation Network (PSN), down from 123 million the previous quarter, but up from 116 million in the year-ago quarter.