David Gibson of Sandstone Insights Japan, an equity research firm, has published an interesting look into Sony’s “strong gaming division” driving the third quarter. The analysis details a good amount of potential growth and strong projections for Q3 of fiscal year 2025. Gibson predicts sales of 1.8 trillion yen along with an operating profit of 160 billion yen.
With the PSSR upscaling upgrade coming for the PS5 Pro, Sony’s consoles are doing well in terms of usability, performance, and, of course, sales. The PS5 consoles and accessories were heavily discounted during the holiday season, which is likely one of the reasons why sales benefited in the third quarter.
Previously, we saw rumors of the next-gen PlayStation console back in October, 2025. From that report, we know the PS6 production wasn’t starting till early 2027. The new console will use the Sony Orion Chip as the APU, an AMD Zen 6 CPU, and RDNA 5 GPU.
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Still A Good Time To Buy A PS5?
Personally, I’m a strong proponent of buying a console toward the middle or toward the end of its lifecycle. The platform is more mature, there are quite a few bleeding-edge games to play through, and prices are usually more affordable. Unfortunately, that last statement hasn’t been true for this generation of consoles. While the holiday sales were nice, let’s not forget that Sony had to raise prices back in August, 2025.
Regardless, if you were thinking of holding off on the PS5 to directly jump to the PS6, it’s likely not a wise move. Between RAM price increases, there’s a high chance that the next-generation consoles will only be delayed further, and prices are likely to be much higher than what you’re expecting. After all, it feels like the PS5 hit its stride very late into its lifespan. We didn’t get that many games during the first couple of years, due to COVID delays and whatnot. If you play sports games, FC 26 and MLB The Show 25 are the best entries in their respective franchises in years, and now’s a great time to get into them.
