Sony announced its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2025, related to the period between July and September, alongside the traditional update on PS5 shipments.
According to the financial documents published by the house of PlayStation, 8 million PS5 units were sold in the quarter, bringing the lifetime total to 94.2 million units.
In comparison, if you’re interested in the competitive scenario, Nintendo shipped 7.01 million units of the Switch 2 during the same holiday quarter. It’s pretty impressive that Sony managed to outsell a brand new console during its first holiday season, possibly at least in part due to the Japan-only price drop.
That being said, the previous Q3 was even stronger for Sony, with 9.5 million PS5 units sold.
On the other hand, 97.2 million PlayStation games were sold during the quarter, compared to 95.9 million in the same period of the previous year. First-party game sales were also up, 13.2 million compared to 11.6 million.
In terms of financial figures, net sales for the Game & Network segment (which includes PlayStation and PlayStation Network) were 68.7 billion yen, down 4% year-on-year. This was due to the decrease in hardware sales year-on-year.
Operating income was 2.8 billion yen, up 19% year-on-year. This was affected by higher sales for network services and first-party games.
The forecast for the full fiscal year was changed again, to 160 billion yen in sales (up 4% compared to the previous forecast) and 10 billion yen in operating income (up 2% compared to the previous forecast) due to higher sales of third-party games.
PlayStation Network’s monthly active users for the quarter were 132 million, up from 129 million in Q3 of the previous year, and from 119 million in Q2 of this fiscal year.
Looking at Sony as a whole corporation, sales were 3,713.7 billion yen, up 1% year-on-year, while operating income was 515 billion yen, up 22% year-on-year.
If you’d like to compare with historical data, you can check out Sony’s financial results from the previous quarter, announced in November.
Other gaming companies have already announced their financial results this quarter, including Koei Tecmo, Capcom, Microsoft, Konami, and Nintendo. You can expect more reports on this topic in the coming days and weeks.