According to the latest financial report, 41.7 million consoles were shipped to stores worldwide PlayStation 5. Between April and June of this year, it was 3.3 million units, almost a million more than in the same period in 2022. Still, Sony expected more, but is still sticking to its goal of selling 25 million consoles for the fiscal year. It aims to achieve this thanks to the discounts launched in July.
Sony in the financial report as well admits the impact on profitability due to the postponement of a portion of first-party games. The company didn’t elaborate, but one sentence suggests it originally planned to release more of its own games this fiscal year. For now, players had to make do with Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores. It will be released in October Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 by Insomniac Games. At the same time, it would explain the poorer PlayStation Showcase in May.
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Let’s go back to the results. Sony’s operating profit fell 31% from April to June. The main reason for the decline is the film business and the general decline in the smartphone market. Analyst Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis thinks the release contributed to the PS5’s results Diablo IV a Final Fantasy XVI. As a result, Sony’s gaming division’s revenue rose 28% to ¥167.8 billion.
Sony sold 56.5 million games in the quarter and has 108 million active users. At the same time last year, there were 47.2 million games sold and 103 million active users. As for PlayStation Plus subscribers, the latest information is from the end of March, when the three levels of the service had a total of 47.4 million people.
The report also talks about a plan within 10 months (starting in May) make $450 million in PC games. This suggests the release of more PlayStation games for PC. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart recently arrived.
2023-08-11 07:33:08
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