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… However, by fiscal year 2024, total first-party sales had dropped by more than half, down to 28.9 million. Over that period, each year saw a decline from the previous one, though FY 2025 was a modest rebound with 32.1 million sales. …
… Sales are in freefall decline. Why buy an Xbox in 2026 if none of its content is actually exclusive? …
… Similar News Stories Sony first-party singleplayer games to stay PlayStation console exclusive, no longer release on PC Sony plans to 'monetize' existing PS5 gamers as a way to avoid raising console prices PS5 hits 92.2 million sales with 8 million PS5s sold over holidays, yet still lags behind PS4… …
… Sony may see that possibility as a direct threat to the value of PlayStation exclusives. Historically, console manufacturers relied heavily on exclusive software to differentiate their platforms. …
… All future singleplayer games after this point will likewise be exclusive to PlayStation consoles. 3 Our findings indicate that Sony's games have made $2.3 billion in gross sales on the Xbox and PC platforms . …
… But as these productions have gotten ever more difficult and expensive to mount, and as Sony teams like Naughty Dog have gotten steadily less productive, sales of Sony's first-party exclusives have slumped , and the PS5 has seemed, fairly or not, to lack enough compelling reasons to exist. …
… Last year reversed that first-party performance trend with fresh open-world sequels like Death Stranding 2 and Ghost of Yotei . As a result, first-party sales actually went up last year, snapping a four-year losing streak. …
… The trend applied to all publishers, not just Sony. …
… How is it that even PlayStation, who has an exclusive marketing activation with Grand Theft Auto 6, is predicting a hardware sales decline? …
… A return to high-profile exclusives is a pretty obvious argument for buying its console over another, but it’s still a little flimsy if those exclusives are limited to one or two a year. …