Sony's Summer 2025 State of Play Sets Viewership Record

Sony's State of Play showcase in June 2025 set a new peak concurrent viewership record for the company.

Sony launched the summer reveal season with an explosive presentation, offering a wide variety of new games to build excitement heading into Summer Games Fest week. Highlights included glimpses of 007 First Light, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, Romeo is a Dead Man, and Silent Hill f.

Streams Charts reports that this week's State of Play reached a peak of over 2.2 million live viewers for the first time in the series' history. According to the site's data, the event now ranks as the third most-watched gaming or tech showcase of 2025 by peak concurrent viewership, behind only two Nintendo Direct broadcasts—with Nintendo's Switch 2 reveal leading by a significant margin.

As noted by Push Square, the State of Play was not Sony's most-watched livestream overall—that title still belongs to the PS5 reveal event, which currently has 44 million views. The Horizon Forbidden West and Horizon Forbidden Dawn showcases were also incredibly popular, reaching 15 and 10 million views, respectively. Nonetheless, Tuesday's broadcast was easily the most popular State of Play to date.

The presentation emphasized third-party titles—especially from Japanese developers—with major announcements from Capcom, Grasshopper Manufacture, Konami, ArtPlay, Square Enix, and Team Ninja. Few first-party titles were featured during the event.

This year's summer showcase also appeared to target dedicated gamers, with a noticeable emphasis on action-oriented games, many of which are expected to carry mature or 18+ ratings.

Missed the event? Don’t worry—here's everything announced at PlayStation State of Play 2025 earlier this week.