Sony has published financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year (April 1 to June 30, 2022). During this time, it was able to put an additional 2.4 million units of PlayStation 5 consoles on the market. Thus, the total number reached 21.7 million PS5 units.
Importantly, this is 0.1 million more than the same quarter a year ago and 0.4 million more than the previous quarter ended March 31, 2022.
As such, hardware sales remain relatively stable, even though Sony doesn’t seem to be able to manufacture and ship more PlayStation 5 units. Demand for the console is still strong, so if there were enough units, the numbers would be even better.
Sony still expects to sell 18 million PS5 units by March 2023. The company managed 11.5 million the previous year, but the target was 14.8 million. The new models are expected to arrive in stores in the coming months.
GAMES ARE SELLING STRONGER
The Game & Network Services division saw a 2% year-over-year decline in sales and operating profit. due to less interest in software from Sony, as well as other publishers and developers. For the PS4 and PS5 consoles, 47.1 million units were sold in the three months, down from the 63.6 million units sold in the same period last year.
Source: Sony/PlayStationThe PlayStation 5 system will be updated with expected features
Sales of digital software continue to grow. He ascribes to himself 79 percent of the listed 47.1 million copies, while a year earlier it was 71%.
This year, Sony released Horizon Forbidden West and Gran Turismo 7, The Last of Us Part 1 will be released in September, and God of War Ragnarok is scheduled for November.
General The number of PlayStation Plus subscribers is 47.3 million.compared to 46.3 million a year earlier, but down from 47.4 million in the previous quarter ended March 31, 2022. This appears to be the lowest monthly active PS Plus user since the company began sharing data at the beginning of 2020.
The number of monthly active users of the PlayStation Network has decreased, this 102 millionwhereas a year earlier it was 105 million, and in the previous quarter even 106 million.
Sony expects lower revenue due to lower sales of third-party games. Operating profit is expected to reach 255 billion yen (previously 305 billion yen). Acquisition-related costs are also expected to increase by $13 billion, but mainly as a result of Bungie’s acquisition being completed earlier than expected.
If you’re interested in PlayStation 4 sales, Sony won’t list them anymore. So the console stopped at 117 million.
Source :Indian TV
