The PS5 might be lacking the cadence of first-party exclusives that made its predecessor so successful, but that doesn’t 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 Sony’s first set of 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. That’s 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 , and have 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 in five years and seven months, and at the time it was the fastest console to reach that number. It also didn’t have to contend with tariffs. PS5 prices in the UK, Australia and New Zealand earlier this year, with Sony blaming a “challenging economic environment” in which it is fighting against high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates. The company has since said it is moving PS5 manufacturing to the US in the future.
