Sony has released their fourth quarter 2024 earnings report today and when it comes to their PlayStation brand the results were mixed as the PlayStation 5 closes in on 80 million lifetime sales.

As highlighted in the report the PlayStation 5 sold 2.8 million units in Sony’s quarterly earnings. This represents data from January-March 2025 and is a stark 38% decrease from the same time period last year, despite the release of the PlayStation 5 Pro. Overall, on the entire fiscal year the PlayStation 5 sold 18.5 million units, down from the 20.8 million units of fiscal year 2023. With these totals the PlayStation 5 is now just shy of 78 million units sold lifetime at 77.8.

Additionally, PlayStation saw its monthly active users drop 5 million to 124 million compared to last quarters 129 million. In an industry that is more and more using monthly active users as a barometer that is probably concerning to Sony, however the 124 million is the second highest number they’ve ever seen outside of last quarter’s results. The drop is also one that is similar to previous years as a drop occurs after the holiday season.

Software Rises Thanks To Third Party Sales

It wasn’t all about declines however. Sony announced that they had sold 76.1 million units of software last quarter, up 5% from the same time period last year which was 72.6 million. Overall for the entire year PlayStation had sold 303.3 million units, up from 286.4 million units the previous fiscal year. The split between digital and physical sales continues to grow as well as last quarter saw 80% of that software being sold digitally. It should be noted that this includes games that are only sold digitally and thus skews the numbers some, but it is still a very high number as gamers continue to switch to digital.

The increase in software sales comes in spite of no major new releases from PlayStation studios. As many know, the beginning of 2025 has been stacked with many blockbuster titles that are selling well. While last year may have seen Helldivers 2 during this time 2025 has seen the likes of Monster Hunter World, Assassins Creed Shadows, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and many many more.

This has helped offset the lack of first party games coming from Sony until later this year when Death Stranding 2 and Ghost Of Yotei release.

We also didn’t receive any updates on specific game sales. The last official update we got from any Sony published games was the 1.5 million Astro Bot had sold back in November.

Later today Sony will hold an investor’s call which will hopefully give some more insight on the PlayStation side of things. When that happens we will be sure to update this and keep you all in the loop!