According to Sony's Q4 financial report for fiscal year 2024, the shipment of PS5 has now reached 77.8 million units.In the quarter, Sony's PS5 shipments were only 2.8 million units, a drop of too much from the 4.5 million units in Q4 fiscal year 2023.
In addition, Sony's PS5 sales in fiscal 2024 also declined, with 18.5 million PS5s sold in fiscal 2024. In comparison, 20.8 million consoles sold in fiscal 2023.
Considering that PS5 has actually entered the end of the host cycle, it is normal for hardware sales to decline.
Sony also shared its forecast for fiscal year 2025, and the company believes that PS5 hardware sales will decline further.Sony predicts that PS5 shipments will be 15 million units in fiscal year 2025.
However, the decline in revenue caused by the decline in hardware sales will be offset by the sales of first-party game software. For example, the first-party masterpiece "Soul of Sheep Hoof Mountain", which has won the first place in pre-order lists in various countries and regions around the world, will be released on October 2, 2025.
Sony PlayStation's revenue for each quarter of fiscal 2024:
Q1: US$5.89 billion
Q2: US$7.01 billion
Q3: US$11.05 billion
Q4: US$7.14 billion
Total: US$31.74 billion
Analysts focused on PlayStation pointed out that this is the first time that Sony's gaming division PlayStation has achieved revenue of more than $30 billion, and it is also a record that other gaming companies have never achieved before:
2025 fiscal year forecast (year-on-year)
◼ Sales: 370 billion yen reduction (8%)
·(�) Hardware sales decline due to decline in unit sales
·(�) Exchange rate impact
·(+) First-party game software sales growth
·(+) Sales growth in non-first-party game software, including additional content
◼ Operating profit: Increased by 65.2 billion yen (16%)
·(+) First-party game software sales growth
To be honest, even though Sony's decline in PS5 hardware sales in fiscal 2024 was largely offset by software sales of PS4 and PS5, which grew from 286.4 million in fiscal 2023 to 303.3 million in fiscal 2024, however, most of them were third-party games, while first-party games sales fell from 3970 in fiscal 2023 to 28.9 million in fiscal 2024.The digital proportion of sales of PS4 and PS5 complete gaming software increased from 70% in 2023 to 76% in 2024.
Sony also stressed that monthly active users (MAU) increased by 5% year-on-year, from 118 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 to 124 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024.Some PC games now require access to the PlayStation Network, but this was not the case last year.This may be one of the reasons for the growth of monthly active users in fiscal 2024.
