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… However, by fiscal year 2024, total first-party sales had dropped by more than half, down to 28.9 million. Over that period, each year saw a decline from the previous one, though FY 2025 was a modest rebound with 32.1 million sales. …
… Microsoft has pushed themselves into a corner by leaning into these trends, and it makes you wonder if its studios can even get the investment they need without PlayStation's install base now — even if the sales overall end up being anaemic. …
… This will have a negative drag effect on sales, which are expected to drop to 4.420 trillion yen, but a boost in first-party game sales games like Wolverine and Saros is expected to help offset this. …
… Sony may see that possibility as a direct threat to the value of PlayStation exclusives. …
… 3 Our findings indicate that Sony's games have made $2.3 billion in gross sales on the Xbox and PC platforms . That being said, the off-platform sales segment aka Other Software only makes up a small proportion of PlayStation's earnings--just 2.4% in FY25. …
… But as these productions have gotten ever more difficult and expensive to mount, and as Sony teams like Naughty Dog have gotten steadily less productive, sales of Sony's first-party exclusives have slumped , and the PS5 has seemed, fairly or not, to lack enough compelling reasons to exist. …
… Last year reversed that first-party performance trend with fresh open-world sequels like Death Stranding 2 and Ghost of Yotei . As a result, first-party sales actually went up last year, snapping a four-year losing streak. …
… The trend applied to all publishers, not just Sony. …
… But despite this, PlayStation itself, the market leader, is warning investors that PS5 hardware sales will decline 6% year-over-year, "due to a decrease in unit sales." This follows a 46% year-over-year decline already, reported this month. …
… A return to high-profile exclusives is a pretty obvious argument for buying its console over another, but it’s still a little flimsy if those exclusives are limited to one or two a year. …