PlayStation Statistics 2026: Revenue, PS5 Sales, Monthly Active Users and Sony Gaming Profit

1. PlayStation Revenue and Operating Income: Record Profit on Flat Sales

Sony reports PlayStation inside the Game & Network Services segment. For the fiscal year ended 31 March 2026 (FY2025 in Sony’s calendar), G&NS sales were £22.31bn, up about £74m on the prior year, while operating income reached a record £2.21bn, a 12% increase. The operating margin improved by one percentage point to 11.6%. Growth came from network services, higher non-first-party software sales and favourable exchange rates.

The reported figure hides a distortion. FY2025 absorbed about £659m of non-recurring losses, including Bungie impairments and a capitalised-cost correction. Sony says that without those items, operating income would have grown 45%, not 12%.

Yen converted at 210 yen to the pound. FY2023 omitted because it was not confirmed in the sources used. HIGH

What this means: At the November forecast, Sony expects roughly a 14.5% G&NS operating margin for FY2026, against 11.6% in FY2025. That is profit expansion without PS5 volume growth, which is the core of PlayStation’s strategy at this stage of the console cycle.

2. Sony Q2 FY2026 Results (July–September 2026) in Detail

Sony announced results on 5 November 2026. G&NS sales rose 9% to £5.75bn and operating income rose 83% to £1.05bn, with adjusted OIBDA at about £1.17bn. The operating-income jump flatters the quarter, because the prior-year quarter contained a one-time loss of about £237m tied to Bungie. Excluding it, operating income grew about 29%. The quarterly operating margin was roughly 18.2%.

3. PS5 Sales 2026: 97.9 Million Shipped, but Annual Volume Is Shrinking

Sony reports PS5 as sell-in, meaning consoles shipped to retailers, not units bought by consumers. As of 30 September 2026, lifetime shipments were 97.9 million, passing 93.7 million at the end of March 2026. The fiscal year ended March 2026 produced 16.0 million shipments, down 13.5% from 18.5 million, and the March quarter’s 1.5 million was the weakest quarter of the generation. In April–September 2026, Sony shipped roughly 4.2 million units (1.6 million in Q1, derived, plus 2.6 million in Q2), compared with 6.5 million in the same half last year.

*Derived: 97.9M lifetime − 2.6M − 93.7M. Millions of units. HIGH (FY2022–FY2025, Q2 FY2026); MEDIUM (Q1 FY2026)

Engadget and other outlets noted that supply constraints may have contributed to the Q2 drop, while Sony’s CFO Lin Tao said the company offset higher memory costs through promotions and pricing adjustments and cost reduction, and that new PS5 sales are “gradually declining as expected” at this stage of the console life cycle. Sony has also said it plans PS5 hardware volume in FY2026 based on the memory it can procure at reasonable prices.

4. PS5 Price History: The Console That Got More Expensive With Age

On 27 March 2026 Sony announced global price increases effective 2 April 2026, its second hike in under a year (the previous one was in August 2025). In the UK the standard PS5 rose by £90 to £569.99, a 19% increase. Sony and press reports pointed to the global economic landscape and sharply higher memory (DRAM) costs driven by AI data-centre demand; estimates of the size of the memory price rise vary by source.

Source: PlayStation Blog (27 Mar 2026), TheSixthAxis, TechRadar. UK prices include 20% VAT. HIGH

Non-UK rows are conversions at £1 = $1.34 = €1.195 = 210 yen and are not retail prices in GBP. US prices exclude sales tax, so they are not directly comparable with VAT-inclusive UK prices. HIGH (local prices); MEDIUM (conversions)

What this means: The disc PS5 launched in the UK in November 2020 at £449.99, so £569.99 is roughly 27% higher on the same core hardware six years later. For Sony’s profitability this matters less than it would for a hardware-dependent rival, because each installed console now generates software and subscription revenue. For a console-versus-console cost comparison, see our PS5 vs Xbox storage expansion cost breakdown.

5. PlayStation Monthly Active Users and Engagement

PlayStation reached 127 million monthly active users (MAU) in September 2026, up from 119 million a year earlier (+7%) and 2 million higher than the prior quarter. It is a record for a September quarter, and total logged play time rose 4%. In FY2025 MAU ended at 125 million in March 2026 (+1% YoY), with a holiday-quarter peak of 133 million.

Sony has not published PlayStation Plus subscriber numbers since it introduced the Essential, Extra and Premium tiers, and now reports MAU as the headline engagement metric. A figure of 47 million PS Plus subscribers circulates on some third-party sites, but it is not a current Sony disclosure and is excluded from this article’s headline figures. Network services revenue, which includes PS Plus, rose 13.9% to about £3.63bn in FY2025 and 19.7% to about £1.04bn in Q2 FY2026.

6. PlayStation Software Statistics: Units, Hits and First-Party Output

Cumulative PS4 and PS5 full-game sell-in exceeded 1.64 billion units as of March 2026. Source: SIE business data; Sony FY2025 results. HIGH

Coverage of the Wolverine launch is in our Wolverine release report. Sony’s first-party slate also took a hit when God of War Laufey was delayed to May 2027, which Sony cited as a reason first-party software is expected to decrease within its raised forecast.

7. Bungie, Marathon and Live Service: The Costly Side of the Ledger

The pattern echoes Concord, the hero shooter from Firewalk Studios that was pulled 12 days after launch in 2024. Sony also announced the closure of Bluepoint Games in February 2026, according to trade reports. The commercial lesson Sony appears to be drawing is a tilt toward fewer live-service bets and stronger premium single-player franchises, though the company has not framed it that way publicly.

8. PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S: The Generation Gap in 2026

Microsoft does not report Xbox unit sales, so the Xbox figure is a third-party estimate (VGChartz) and the comparison is approximate. On those numbers, PS5 has sold roughly 2.8 times as many consoles as the Xbox Series family. At the end of 2025 estimates put PS5 at about 72% of the current-generation market and Xbox at about 28%. For the full Xbox picture, including Game Pass and Microsoft’s restructuring, read our Xbox Statistics 2026 article.

9. Sony Stock and Group Context

PlayStation is one segment of Sony Group, alongside Music, Pictures and Imaging & Sensing. For FY2025, Sony reported group sales of about £59.4bn and operating income of about £6.9bn. After the Q2 FY2026 results Sony raised its group operating income forecast to about £8.9bn for the year to March 2027, a 15% increase on its previous guidance. Reuters reported that Sony’s shares closed up 7% ahead of the 5 November results announcement and traded higher afterward; the company planned a FY2026 dividend of about 17p per share, up from about 12p.

Share-price snapshots in the sources vary by date, so treat the following as indicative only: Sony’s US-listed ADR (NYSE: SONY) has traded in a 52-week range of roughly £14–£22 ($19–$30), with a high near £22.60 ($30.34), and a market capitalisation in the region of £90–£112bn ($120–150bn) depending on the date. Check a live quote before relying on any price. This is not investment advice.

10. What Comes Next: GTA VI, Disc Production and PS6

PS6 price speculation, including claims of a base price above £750 ($1,000), is unconfirmed. Sony has said only that it will make the necessary investments for a new platform; FY2026 operating income guidance was originally described as essentially flat year-on-year because of those investments. PlayStation IP is also expanding on screen, including the God of War series (see Kratos casting), new The Last of Us projects and the Helldivers film.

11. PlayStation Console History: Lifetime Hardware Sales

The PS5 is already the second best-selling PlayStation console in the figures verified here, behind the PS4’s 117.2 million. At the current run rate of roughly 16 million units a year and falling, passing the PS4 would take until the late 2020s at best, and Sony’s own guidance expects PS5 hardware volume to decline.

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13. Methodology and Data Confidence

Primary figures come from Sony Group’s financial results, supplemental data and Sony Interactive Entertainment’s published business data. Secondary sources (Engadget, Reuters, GamingBolt, Simulation Daily, Kotaku and others) are used for quotes, third-party estimates and context. All monetary amounts are converted to pounds sterling at 210 yen = $1.34 = €1.195 = £1, rounded from mid-market rates in late October and early November 2026. UK console prices are Sony’s published UK recommended retail prices.

Data timestamp: 12 November 2026. Sony’s Q3 FY2026 results, covering the holiday quarter and the GTA VI launch, are expected in early 2027. Not investment advice.