Among the financial data published by Sony PlayStation there has been a network in the last few hours decrease in software sales in the first quarter of the new fiscal year, which is also associated with decreases in sales in first-party games and PlayStation Plus subscribers.
The first quarter of Sony’s fiscal 2022 was thus confirmed rather negatively: after seeing PS5 hardware sales still in line with expectations, software sales show a total of 47.1 million copies. 26% drop compared to the same period of the previous year.
A real one for PS4 and PS5 negative record 6.4 million copies were sold in the quarter between April and June 2022: the worst figure for all quarters of fiscal 2019, 2020 and 2021.
this new arrivals Especially with the release of The Last of Us Part I in September and God of War Ragnarok in November, it is expected to help improve the situation in the coming months to revive a software industry that has clearly suffered from the repercussions of the general crisis. your market.
subscribers PlayStation PlusFor the second consecutive quarter: The third quarter of fiscal 2021 remains a kind of positive record in that sense, given that the 48 million reached at the time was the highest point ever reached by Sony’s subscription service, which saw the total later. It fell to 47.4 and then to 47.3 million users in the quarter under review, a figure higher than the corresponding period of the previous year anyway, so the decline is slight.
Regarding this specific data, we expect to see significant changes in the next quarter, because full restart of the service with the new triple-layer PlayStation Plus.
Source: Multiplayer
