Sony has announced its latest financial results for Q4 fiscal year 2026, covering the three months ending on March 31st, and, surprise, the PS5 has reached a new milestone. It’s now at 93.7 million shipments with 1.5 million shipped in the previous quarter. Impressive, but it’s down from 2.4 million year-on-year (and this is before the recent price hikes on the console line-up).
Other notable figures include 74.6 million software units sold on PS4 and PS5 combined – a 1.5 million drop from last year. Of that total, first-party titles made up 5.8 million, down by 100,00 year-on-year. The percentage of full-game software digital downloads continues to rise, hitting 85 percent. As for the PlayStation Network, it’s now at 125 million active users monthly.
Interestingly, Sony notes that its operating income forecast for fiscal year 2026, which ends March 31st, 2027, is flat year-on-year due to “the incorporation of an increase in investments for the next-generation platform.” That said, current profits are expected to see “double-digit rate” increases.
As for PS5 sales, Sony is banking on the “volume of memory” it can obtain at “reasonable prices” (which may be a tall order given the state of the memory crisis). Otherwise, it expects profitability from hardware sales to remain the same as the last fiscal year. It may not seem overtly ambitious, but with rumors about the PS6 allegedly targeting Holiday 2027, it may very well have something big in store.
