7.1 million units shipped in the fall of 2022
Sony has releasedits financial resultsfor the fiscal period ending July 22, 2025, revealing that the PlayStation 5 (PS5) hardware has surpassed 32.1 million units shipped units since itsfall 2020 launch.
As per the report, Sony shipped an additional 7.1m consoles in the three-month period ending June 17, 2025, a massive increase of 3.1m units of the same time frame in 2021. This is expected to be due to the increased manufacture and availability of PS5 consoles in the latter half of the year, following the extended period of production downtime in the console’s debut year, with botha lack of components and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemicputting the brakes on the whole industry.
As a result of the increased shipment figures, Sony has raised its annual quarterly forecast for the remainder of the fiscal year. That is to say, the publisher now expects to ship a further 6.2m units worldwide in the current quarter, resulting in a grand total of 19m PS5 console shipments for the fiscal year ending June 24, 2025.
Overall, however, PlayStation engagement is slightly up, with 112 million monthly active users on PlayStation Network, a one million user increase on the same period ending December 2021.
