Sony recently published its financial reports for its fiscal year 2025 performance in multiple departments, including gaming. PlayStation faced several recent losses, though its greatest loss involved its acquisition of Bungie, making the company lose over $765 million.
PlayStation previously showed interest in purchasing Bungie for $3.6 billion in 2022. Bungie made its debut contribution to PlayStation with Marathon, the latest live service game. Despite facing multiple plagiarism controversies, it launched on multiple gaming platforms with over an estimated million units sold. It had a decent start in March 2026, though its player retention hasn’t been stable with player activity dropping considerably through Steam, where most sales originated. Its current performance is declining, with around 15,000 players on PC, which led to the company’s value greatly falling under PlayStation’s ownership.
Despite Bungie’s loss in value, PlayStation is still working to support its latest extraction shooter. The Sony chief financial officer, Lin Tao, discussed the company’s future plans to continue supporting Marathon for the upcoming fiscal year during its previous investor call, reported by IGN. It will prioritize making the game more engaging for current fans with new content and gameplay improvements during its upcoming seasons, expecting the next seasonal update, Nightfall, to occur in June 2026.
“Going forward, we aim to improve the performance of the game by working to retain highly engaged core users through the introduction of additional content, further improvements in the gameplay experience and expansion of the user base.”
PlayStation predicts its upcoming fiscal year performance will recover its major impairment charges with Bungie, along with other losses. Due to the high costs and major declining sales of PlayStation hardware, the company predicts improvements will take longer to grow positively, forecasting its profitable sales to remain “essentially the same as FY25.” Software sales will benefit greatly in the upcoming fiscal year, especially from the first-party lineup, including Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls and Marvel’s Wolverine.
