After Microsoft with Xbox Sony also comes with its financial report, which summarized the period from the beginning of July to the end of September this year. The PlayStation division, which recorded the best second quarter in history, is particularly pleased.
During this period sold 3.3 million PS5 and 200,000 PS4, moving the PlayStation 4 to 116.7 million shipped, while the PlayStation 5 reached 13.4 million.
According to the agency Bloomberg fewer units were sold than Sony expected, in part due to persistent shortcomings in chip supply and other factors. It looks like Sony simply expected more, but that doesn’t change the fact that the gaming division outperformed 287.4% and has a total PlayStation revenue of $ 5.86 billion and a profit of $ 751 million. Last year’s results thus improved by 27.4% and it is worth mentioning that only physical editions (-17.6%) enjoyed less interest.
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Sony’s revenue grew 27 percent year-over-year due to increased sales of PlayStation 5 hardware and games from other companies, including DLC, which partially offset worse sales of its own titles. Sony in that period sold 76.4 million games, of which 7.6 million own games. 62 percent of sales were digital.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales remains the best-selling first-party game for the PS5, with 6.5 million units sold on the PS5 and PS4. Demon’s Souls (1.4 million) a Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (1.1 million) for the PS5.
In that period, game sales accounted for 27.2 percent of the Japanese company’s total revenue (+ 3.2 percent compared to the same quarter last year) and 26 percent of total operating profit (compared to 31.1% last year).
However, year-on-year profit decreased year-on-year due to continued lower PS4 sales, loss-making PS5 sales and worse first-party game sales. Nevertheless, the PlayStation achieved a very high profit, which was lower than in the same quarter of 2020. This is not unusual at the beginning of a new generation.
The Sony report still states that The total number of PlayStation Plus subscribers as of September 30 was 47.2 million… V PlayStation Network bylo active 104 million users per month.
By comparison, Microsoft does not publish hardware-related numbers for the Xbox, however according to estimates Xbox Series X / S consoles have sold approximately 8 million units and Game Pass has 20 million subscribers.
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