Sony announced its financial forecast for the next fiscal year, confirming that the company is considering price increases for PlayStation 5 consoles and other products to compensate for impacts from tariffs. According to Sony, these impacts are upwards of 100 billion yen, or roughly $680 million, as reported by The Verge.
During the company’s earnings call, Sony CFO Lin Tao noted that the company is considering “passing on” the price of these tariffs to consumers in order to mitigate the impacts. Tao didn’t mention the PlayStation 5 explicitly during the call when speaking on tariffs, but it’s worth noting that prices of PS5 were already increased this year in the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Moreover, CEO Hiroki Totoki explained that manufacturing of the PS5 may be moved to the US to avoid any further impacts from tariffs. Totoki admitted that the console can be produced locally in the US and should be considered going forward as “an efficient strategy.”
Sony Interactive Entertainment also released its financial results for the three months ended on March 31, 2025, revealing that PlayStation 5 sales topped 77.8 million worldwide. 2.8 million PlayStation 5 units were shipped worldwide during the latest quarter. This is down 1.7 million units from the same period during the previous fiscal year.
124 million active users were on PlayStation Network as of March 31, which is up six million from the same period exactly one year ago. Combined PS4 and PS5 software sales reached 76.1 million units during the quarter, resulting in a 3.5 million increase year-over-year.
5.9 million of the software sales were first-party games, which is down 6.4 million from the same period last fiscal year. What’s more, 80% of the software sales were full game digital downloads, resulting in a 3% year-over-year increase.
