PS5 Has Best Holiday Ever, Overall Sales Pass 75 million

PlayStation 5 just had its biggest quarter yet, selling 9.5 million units between October and December 2024.

That brings overall PS5 sales to 75 million, and bumps Sony’s gaming business by 37% compared to the same period last year.

Sony has now bundled PS5 Pro sales into its overall hardware numbers, so we’re unable to separate the success of its new upgraded console. But the company stressed that sales of all PS5s now brought its latest console in-line with its projected 18 million sales by the end of March 2025, and just 1.5 million units behind predecessor PS4, which had sold 76.5 million units at the same point in its production cycle.

Monthly active users across its service are also up to 129 million, up 5% year-on-year and marking a new milestone, with overall sales of games and consoles also up by 16%. 42% of PS5 sales were to new PlayStation Network users. Sony’s big release during the quarter was Astro Bot, which has sold 1.5 million copies.

With “significant increases” reported during its games and network services segment for the quarter, Sony raised its profit forecast by 2%.

Sony did not comment on its wide-reaching outage last week, which took its PlayStation Network service offline for almost a full day. Sony eventually deemed the 24-hour outage an “operational issue” and offered PlayStation Plus members an additional five days of service in compensation.

Sony’s State of Play 2025 broadcast highlighted games coming to PS5 in the next year, including Housemarque’s Saros and Days Gone Remastered. Sony also has Ghost of Yotei and Death Stranding 2 coming out later in 2025.

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