Who owns PlayStation?
PlayStation is owned by Sony (Japan, NYSE: SONY).[1]
Evidence: Sony Group Corporation Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-06-18, SEC EDGAR, 18 June 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Sony Group Corporation verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇵 Japan, Tokyo
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Founded
- 1994
- Category
- Internet & digital › Platforms & devices › Games & gaming platforms
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: SONY
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About PlayStation
PlayStation began as an abandoned CD add-on for a Nintendo console, which Sony finished alone after the partnership collapsed. It has led most console generations since 1994, and the PlayStation 2 remains the best-selling games console ever made. The falling-out with Nintendo over that add-on is one of the most consequential broken partnerships in the industry, since it created Sony's largest business by profit.
What Sony's annual report says about PlayStation
Sentences about PlayStation from Sony's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Products and Services Game & Network Services (G&NS) Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC undertakes product research, development, design, marketing, sales, production, distribution and customer service for PlayStation hardware, software, content and network services.
Sony's products that employ Blu-ray Disc player functionality, including PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 ("PS5 ") hardware, are substantially dependent upon patents that relate to technologies specified in the Blu-ray Disc specifications and are licensed by Via Licensing Alliance LLC.
In this environment, Sony aims to achieve sustainable business growth by seeking higher revenue and profits from PlayStation Plus ("PS Plus"), maximizing average revenue per user on the PlayStation Store, expanding sales of first-party game software, and strengthening control over business costs and supply chain management.
How often Sony names PlayStation in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of PlayStation
Where PlayStation sits in Sony
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Sony
Sony controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- Crunchyroll (2006)
Other brands in games & gaming platforms, and who owns them
The 22 brands in games & gaming platforms on Brandtree belong to 15 owners. The largest is DoubleDown Interactive, with 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Duelz | DoubleDown Interactive | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Activision Blizzard | Microsoft | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Supersonic from Unity | Unity | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Epic Games Store | Epic Games | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Hago | JOYY | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
| GameMaker | Kunlun Tech | 🇨🇳 China |
| Nintendo Switch | Nintendo | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Roblox | Roblox | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Sony
Sony is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1946. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: SONY.
Sony was founded in a bombed-out Tokyo department store in 1946 and became a consumer electronics giant before buying its way into Hollywood and music. Entertainment now produces more of its profit than electronics, which is a reversal of what the name still suggests to most people.
🇯🇵 PlayStation and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 448 brands that began in Japan. 22 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; PlayStation is not one of them.
- ABEMA — CyberAgent 🇯🇵
- Acquire — Kadokawa 🇯🇵
- Animal Crossing — Nintendo 🇯🇵
- Dragon Quest — Square Enix 🇯🇵
- Elden Ring — Bandai Namco 🇯🇵
- Ikyu.com — LY Corporation 🇯🇵
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of PlayStation?
The parent company of PlayStation is Sony, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Is PlayStation Japanese?
Yes. PlayStation originated in Japan in 1994 and its owner, Sony, is also headquartered in Japan.
Is PlayStation still owned by Sony?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, PlayStation is still owned by Sony. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Sony Group Corporation Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-06-18 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 18 June 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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