The PlayStation 5 generation is officially the most profitable Sony console generation to date, according to new data shared by the company. This comes from the company's Game & Network Services Business Segment meeting slides and presentation , which were shared today following the company's earnings report two weeks ago . In the presentation, Sony revealed that the PS5 generation has brought in $106 billion in sales since launch, outpacing every past console at the same point in its generation.
Let's stick some asterisks on that figure really quick, though. First off, Sony reports that the PS4 generation brought in a total of $107 billion in sales, which is obviously more than $106 billion. But the PS4 generation is taken as whole, from fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2019, and includes three more years than the PS5 generation (which spans from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2023).
Four years into the PS4's lifecycle, it was still well behind where the PS5 is now, and the PS5 is on pace to easily pass the PS4 generation's total sales sometime this year. It's also worth noting that these dollar amounts are total sales over the course of a console generation, not a reflection of specific hardware or game sales. The "PS5 generation" encompasses not just the PS5 itself, but everything the business is doing during this generation, including PS4 sales and game releases during this period.
So take it all with the grain of salt it merits. But it's not shocking that the PS5 generation has been so.
