Sony announced its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026, related to the period between July and September 2026, alongside the traditional update on PS5 shipments.
According to the documents published by the company, 2.6 million units were sold during the quarter, bringing the total lifetime sales to 97.9 million units shipped to retailers.
Sales for the Game & Network Services Segment, which is Sony’s corporate jargon to indicate PlayStation, were 1,208.5 billion yen, up 9% year-on-year. Games (both first- and third-party) and network services contributed to growth, partly offset by a decline in hardware sales.
Operating income was 220.1 billion yen, up 83% year-on-year, thanks to the absence of impairment losses that were present in the same quarter of the previous year, and growth in network services and first-party games.
The forecast for the full year has also been increased by 290 billion yen (6%) to 4,830 billion yen due to expected growth for third-party games (they’re looking at you, GTA6). Operating income is expected to be
Operating Income is expected to be 700 billion yen (40 billion yen or 6% above the previous forecast due to the aforementioned growth in third-party games, lower costs, and better network services sales, offset by an expected decrease for first-party games due to the delay of God of War Laufey.
We also get an update on Monthly Active Users (as Sony has not shared the number of PlayStation Plus subscribers since implementing the different tiers) to 127 million, 8 million more compared to the same quarter of the previous fiscal year, and a growth of 2 million quarter-on-quarter.
If you’d like to compare with historical data, you can check out Sony’s financial results from the previous quarter, announced in July.
Other gaming companies have already announced their financial results this quarter, including Koei Tecmo, Capcom, Microsoft, Konami, and Marvelous. You can expect plenty more reports on this topic in the coming days and weeks.
