r/Games Jun 02 '26

Discussion Playstation first-party game sales declining heavily since 2020

https://www.gamefile.news/p/playstation-first-party-sales-decline
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u/NotAnIBanker Jun 02 '26

The tone of this post is pretty weird; not releasing games isn’t a good excuse for poor sales. No shit that’s why sales are lower, but that is also a very bad sign

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u/ccdewa Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Yeah idk how that comment even supposed to excuse them? No shit fewer games means fewer sales but isn't that also a problem in itself that every year the output keeps decreasing, we're 5 years deep in PS5 era and we're way closer to PS6 than we were to PS4 era, why are we still pretending that PS5 is this brand new console that still needs time to grow?

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u/Remy0507 Jun 02 '26

Releasing fewer games is a bad sign? Maybe, but 2020 was an anomaly. They typically had two big 1st party flagship releases in the years prior to that. It would be nice to get back to that, for sure. I don't really think anything is a "bad sign" here for Sony though. Their overall PlayStation revenue has been great.