{"id":83519,"date":"2026-06-02T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83519"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:39:14","slug":"playstations-first-party-game-sales-have-been-on-decline-since-2020-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83519","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation\u2019s First-Party Game Sales Have Been On Decline Since 2020, Data Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After the PS5 generation got off to a strong start in late 2020, sales of first-party games have declined dramatically every year since then,\u00a0new data has shown. This follows a period where the PS4 generation saw a regular influx of new first-party releases on that platform, but Sony’s own numbers paint a worrying picture.<\/p>\n

According to Stephen Totilo at Game File<\/a> and Sony’s own data<\/a>, first-party PlayStation sales peaked in the 2020 financial year–April 2020 to March 2021–with 58.4 million sales. In the following years, those sales began to decline and sank to just 28.9 million units sold in the 2024 financial year, while the 2025 financial year saw the numbers rise to 32.1 million sales for that period. So what’s going on here exactly?<\/p>\n

It’s worth noting that PS4 games like The Last of Us Part 2 and Ghost of Tsushima are included in the 2020 FY\u00a0figures, as they launched at the tail end of the PS4 era and are backward compatible with PS5. The PS4 also received a few more games, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the PS5 generation got off to a strong start in late 2020, sales of first-party games have declined dramatically every year since then,\u00a0new data has shown. This follows a period where the PS4 generation saw a regular influx of new first-party releases on that platform, but Sony’s own numbers paint a worrying picture. According…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":83521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83522,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83519\/revisions\/83522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}