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Engadget
Amid a representation shortage that forced it to raise PS5 prices twice successful little than a year, Sony sold conscionable 1.5 cardinal PS5s successful its 4th fiscal quarter, down 46 percent from nan twelvemonth before. The institution was comparatively gloomy astir its gaming division's prospects adjacent twelvemonth too, forecasting that gross would autumn six percent ($1.69 billion).
Overall, Sony's gaming section gross was up somewhat for nan full fiscal 2025 twelvemonth pinch income of 4.69 trillion yen ($29.9 billion) compared to 4.67 trillion yen ($29.8 billion) nan erstwhile year. Operating income was up 12 percent to 463.3 cardinal yen ($2.95 billion), acknowledgment successful portion to an summation successful PlayStation Network sales.
Some of Sony's gross and profit issues this twelvemonth were down to impairment losses pinch Bungie owed to Destiny 2's poor sales. Without those charges connected its backmost adjacent twelvemonth (plus nan expected blockbuster motorboat of Grand Theft Auto VI successful November), nan institution expects a 30 percent boost successful profits for its adjacent fiscal twelvemonth contempt nan gross drop.
Still, those forecasts will dangle connected its expertise to get memory. "We scheme to guidelines our PS5 hardware income successful FY26 connected nan measurement of representation we tin procure astatine reasonable prices and we
expect hardware profitability to beryllium fundamentally nan aforesaid arsenic FY25," Sony said. In its erstwhile net report, nan institution revealed that it had secured nan minimum representation it needed to accommodate income for nan 2026 vacation season.
That whitethorn beryllium acold comfortableness to PS5 fans, though, considering that a modular PS5 is acold from affordable astatine $650 aft nan March 2026 value hike, up $150 from conscionable a twelvemonth ago. That's for a nearly six-year-old console that's inexorably approaching its extremity of life. Nintendo was going done nan aforesaid point pinch its aging Switch console early past year, but nan June 2025 Switch 2 motorboat wholly changed its fortunes, becoming nan fastest-selling Nintendo console ever.
