Sony Group has published a financial update for Q1 FY25, the period ending June 30, 2025. In the report, the company reported substantial growth in the PlayStation space, with digital sales, customer retention, monthly active users, and hardware sales showing strong trends.
It was noted that, thanks to 2.5 million PS5 units being sold in the financial quarter, the total count has now exceeded 80 million units so far in the PlayStation 5’s lifecycle, which commenced in 2020.
‘Strong Momentum’
The report filed by Sony Group tells a positive story for the tech titan, especially where the PlayStation arm of the corporation is concerned. In a line pulled from the report, it was revealed:
User engagement continued its strong momentum, with Monthly Active Users in June and total gameplay hours across PlayStation during Q1 FY25 both increasing 6% year-on-year.
This has been enough for Sony to ‘upwardly revise’ its operating income forecast.
It was remarked that a strong window for new titles helped fuel the performance of the PlayStation platform in Q1 FY25. In the period, 72 million games were sold across PlayStation’s ecosystem, 83% of which were purchased digitally.
The only core negative to take away from the report referenced an incoming impact from ‘a delay in the launch timing of a first-party title’, which wasn’t named but is assumed to be Bungie’s Marathon, the plagued extraction shooter.
Player counts were also up over the last period, with 123 million active users logging in during Q1 FY25, up 8 million from the number recorded in the previous period. Again, the slate of games launched in the window (Oblivion Remastered, Clair Obscur, Death Stranding 2, Forza Horizon 5) contributed to that greatly.
Recently, the PlayStation brand was in the news when Sony Group’s CEO stressed that the future of the platform, with the PlayStation 6 at the heart of it, was the company’s top priority.
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