PlayStation-published game sales have been on the decline for nearly five years, essentially since 2020. First-party games from PlayStation have seen a steady drop in sales numbers from year to year over this five-year period, with only a small uptick in 2025. A trend like this is in line with the anecdotal observations of gamers, which have led to complaints about Sony's lack of first-party output during the PS5 generation.
According to data collected by Game File based on annual sales figures reported by Sony, PlayStation-published game sales over the past seven years peaked in 2020 and have been dropping by millions of units sold in almost every year since. The launch of the PS5 alongside games like Spider-Man: Miles Morales and the Demon's Souls remake is likely the driving force behind that peak in 2020. However, the drop in sales of nearly 15 million units between 2020 and 2021 is emblematic of a larger problem Sony has faced this console generation.
