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PS5 Sales Just Cratered 46% as Sony's Earnings Pivot Hard to AI — Naughty Dog and San Diego Studio Are Already Shipping a Tool That Generates Facial Animation in Seconds, Plus a Hair Pipeline That Eats Real-Life Video and Spits Out Strand-Level 3D Models
Sony shipped 1.5 million PS5s in Q4 FY25 against 2.8 million a year earlier, blaming a global memory crunch driven by AI data-center demand. PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino spent the rest of the call pivoting to AI tooling — naming Mockingbird (facial animation, used by Naughty Dog and San Diego Studio) and an unnamed hair pipeline that converts video of real hairstyles into strand-level 3D groomed models.