Sony is swimming in money – PlayStation 4 continues to bypass PlayStation 2, and sales of games beat all records

Sales Playstation 4 continue to decline amid imminent release Playstation 5, but the revenue of the gaming division Sony growing. This is stated in the financial report of the corporation for the first quarter of the current financial year.

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Sony shipped 1.9 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide from April to June… A year earlier for the same quarter – 3.2 million.

At the same time, the demand for software was extremely high. Sony and its partners sold 91 million copies of PlayStation 4 games in the first quarter… For comparison, in April-June of the last financial year, this figure was 49.8 million.

18.5 million of those 91 million are Sony Interactive Entertainment games sales… Separate indicators The Last of Us: Part II the company did not elaborate. Exclusive Naughty dog debuted on June 19, and the first reporting quarter ended on June 30.

PlayStation Plus’ subscriber base peaks in service history – 44.9 million (+5.1 million compared to June 30, 2019).

All this resulted in the best financially first quarter in the history of the gaming division. Sony… Revenue rose 32.5% to 606.1 billion yen ($ 5.63 billion), while operating income jumped 68% to 124 billion yen ($ 1.15 billion).

  • Sony’s gaming division generated 30.8% of the corporation’s quarterly revenue and 48% of operating profit… This is the main financial driver.

  • The first quarter of this financial year fell on self-isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic, so most of the games for PlayStation 4 were sold in the PlayStation Store in April-June. The share of “numbers” for the first time accounted for 74% of total sales, retail was in the minority with 26%

  • Playstation 4 still bypasses PlayStation 2 on total sales for the same time since the debut

In the fall of 2023, Sony will launch Playstation 5

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