Sony Q1 FY3/2026 Financial Results (Apr-June 2025) | PS5 Shipments Top 80.3 Mill; PS5 HW at 2.5M (+4.17% YoY), SW at 65.9M (+23% YoY)

[Rekkapryde]

Who hurt you, breh?

@Gizmo_Duck and @Khalil's_Black_Excellence did

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

I'm still there. I never hid.
Most of the cats I game with in there are cool and I've been playing with for years, fool.

Lmao I can tell Gizmo been doing some crying in there from this post alone

 

[Deezay]

Lmao I can tell Gizmo been doing some crying in there from this post alone

Them cats ain't studying this shyt. They chillin.
It's here that's fukked.

 

[winb83]

Their strategy has always been appealing to mass market with the exception being the ps3 generation with Sony quickly reverting back to that strategy afterwards. Even with no competition, the ps6 needs to sell well quickly because of the exclusives exclusive to the ps6. At some point there will be these type of exclusives other than at release or shortly after and Sony needs as much consoles out there as possible to maximize the profits of those games especially when you consider development costs.

Not all ps6 exclusives will be cross gen. Next gen will be the same as this gen with some exclusives being on the ps6 only and some being cross gen with almost all the cross platform games being cross gen early. Then after about year 2 or 3 all ps6 exclusives will only be on the ps6 and cross platform games will start being exclusive to the ps6.

I also predict there will be a greater amount of exclusives only on the ps6 compared to this gen due to no COVID, pivoting away from GAAS, a greater amount of Sony studios, and studios that never released or released only 1 game this gen being active next gen, There are also reports of gen z gamers not buying as many games except f2p games and select popular franchises though that is as accurate as the sample of that study so Sony would be wise to make the ps6 affordable. The ps5 pro is only $700 because Sony wants profit with that console only being 2% higher to produce than the ps5 and will be discontinued.

The PS6 generation exclusive games likely will be years into the PS6’s life. They didn’t initially plan the PS4 to go so far into the PS5’s life (“we believe in generations”) but it’s safe to assume going into the PS6’s life the plan will be keep PS5 going 4-5 years with cross generation games. I mean they’re outright saying the focus is going to be MAU and not selling hardware. MAUs can be on old or new hardware.

 

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

The PS6 generation exclusive games likely will be years into the PS6’s life. They didn’t initially plan the PS4 to go so far into the PS5’s life (“we believe in generations”) but it’s safe to assume going into the PS6’s life the plan will be keep PS5 going 4-5 years with cross generation games. I mean they’re outright saying the focus is going to be MAU and not selling hardware. MAUs can be on old or new hardware.

All the cross gen ps5 games from Sony already started development on the ps4. All their games have been exclusive to the ps5 after that. There were also exclusives such as Rift Apart and Returnal that were not cross gen at release and within a year of release. This will continue with the ps6.

The other exclusives have been cross gen or exclusive to this generation. These other exclusives will be cross gen well into next generation as well as exclusive to next generation. There's the potential of there being more exclusives exclusive to next generation in the same period of time compared to this generation due to no COVID, studios that had their games cancelled releasing a new game, new playstation studios recently created, being created or being acquired, and 2nd party along with 3rd party.

COVID and the concentration on service games that were cancelled slowed down the schedule of releases this gen. Any cross gen ps6 exclusive from Sony would have already started on the ps5. Any games created by Sony after that will be exclusive to the ps6. Sony said they are concentrated on getting revenue via services, software sales, and player engagement, but that still requires a good amount of consoles being sold within a reasonable amount of time. Sony wants the ps6 to sell well as quickly as possible.

 

[PS5 Pro]

I see you 2nd team

That earnings season.

Buy that Microsoft stock and let ChatGPT earnings growth pay for a PS6.

Or you can buy Sony stock and get yourself a subway sammich

Spoiler

Only a 6in tho

Them cats ain't studying this shyt. They chillin.
It's here that's fukked.

Takes notes