Sony PlayStation’s first-party game sales increased from 289 million in 2025 to 32.1 million. According to the Sony newspaper data compiled by Game File, since 2020, Sony’s first-party game has experienced a decline in sales of millions of copies each year, with only a small upturn in the last year.
In the 12 months of spring 2020 to winter 2021, Sony sold 58.4 million games. This is at the peak of PlayStation’s performance. During the same period, Sony launched the PS5 mainframe and brought with it such popular events as ” Last Survivors 2 ” and ” The Spirit of the Horse Island ” .
Four years later, PlayStation came to its lowest point in recent years, when Sony released the infamous Starring Attack, and even with the annual best game of Space Robots, the number of first-party games was still less than half the peak of 2020.
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Statistics published in Sony ‘ s latest financial report show that the number of games sold by the first party on PS4 and PS5 platforms from April 2025 to March 2026 amounted to 32.1 million, the first increase in five years. Part of it was sold by the Spirit of the Goat Mountain, which led to a small rebound.
According to the Sony Press, PlayStation’s first game has been declining year by year since 2020. Overall, this continuing downward trend may support an observer ‘ s analysis that, since the introduction of the PS5 mainframe in 2020, the Sony game sector has performed somewhat differently.
PlayStation still sells millions of hosts each year and stabilizes output sales of millions of works, but intensive acquisitions over the past five years have not significantly reversed the downward trend in Sony’s own game sales. The recently launched re-printing and high-intensity reruns also appear to have failed to reverse the decline.
Notably, PlayStation peaked at 58.4 million at a time of global epidemic. The global isolation caused by the epidemic has greatly stimulated consumer interest in the game. At the same time, the performance of the Switch and Steam platforms in Nintendo also increased significantly.
If, however, the decline is attributed only to the epidemic, the PlayStation mainframe should be reduced accordingly, but the opposite is true, with the PS5 going up year by year, even as supplies were strained early.
Game File attributed the decline in PlayStation sales in part to the unstable production of the studio and the long AAA-class game development cycle. Sony’s brand-named naughty dog studio was unable to launch a new one, with the exception of the ” Last Survivors Reprint ” , throughout the generations. According to previous reports, the multiplayer game ” Last Livers ” , which had been developed by naughty dogs for many years, had been cancelled after Sony abandoned his multi-server game strategy.
In March of this year, as part of a number of strategic adjustments to support long-term sustainable development, Sony closed down the first-party studio, Dark Outlaw Gomes. More recently, Sony also closed the Bluepoint Games studio, which was known for its participation in the development of ” War God 5: The Dwindy of the Gods ” , as well as for the development of re-edited editions of ” The Spirit of the Devil ” , ” Wanda and the Megatron ” and ” Mystic Sea ” .
According to Bloomberg, the first game under Sony has abandoned the PC platform distribution strategy and will focus in the future on PlayStation monogamous. Bloomberg quoted sources as saying that such transplants “may damage the brand image of the host and may affect the sales of PS5 and its successors”.
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