Sony's Disappointing PS5 Generation Captured In One Chart
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The fall from 58.4 million to 28.9 million own games marks a downward trend that does not stop and forces the company to rethink its strategy
PlayStation first-party game sales drop by 50% since 2020
Sony’s first-party PlayStation game sales have declined significantly since their pandemic-era peak in FY2020. According to data from Sony’s own financial reports, compiled and analyzed in a recent Game File report, the company sold 58.4 million units of first-party (and some second-party) titles in FY2020. This period benefited from major hits like The Last of […] Source
News from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. PlayStation continues to have some of the industry’s most renowned studios, but its own games no longer sell as before. An analysis of Game File, based on Sony financial reports, shows that exclusive sales have been falling since 2020. Although there was a slight recovery in 2025, the company still failed to return to pre-Pandemic numbers. In 2020, Sony sold around 58.4 mi…
New data shows Sony's sales of its PlayStation exclusives have been in decline since 2020, covering almost the entirety of the PS5 generation so far
Sales of PlayStation's first-party exclusive games have been on the decline since the company's 2020 fiscal year, according to new data, only registering a brief spike last year (2025). That perceptible drop is notable, in part because Sony has always positioned PlayStation as the only place to play some of the best games, many of which were produced by its own in-house studios which the platform holder invested billions into.
After shining for its exclusives on PS4, PlayStation failed to replicate the same success on PS5, which saw sales of first-party games collapse year after year.
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