According to the latest financial report, 41.7 million consoles have been shipped to stores worldwide. prefix 5. Between April and June this year, 3.3 million units were sold, almost a million more than the same period in 2022. However, Sony expected more, but still sticks to its goal of selling 25 million consoles for the fiscal year. It aims to achieve this through discounts launched in July.
Sony in the financial report, as well as allows profitability to be impacted by postponing some of its own games. The company didn’t elaborate, but one suggestion suggests it originally planned to release more of its own games this fiscal year. For now, players have had to make do with Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores. It will be released in October Spiderman 2 by Marvel by Insomniac Games. At the same time, this explains the weaker PlayStation Showcase in May.
Let’s get 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 Pierce Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis believes the release had an impact on the PS5 results. Diablo IV And Final Fantasy XVI. As a result, Sony’s gaming division’s revenue rose 28% to 167.8 billion yen.
Sony sold 56.5 million games in the quarter and has 108 million active users. At the same time, 47.2 million games and 103 million active users were sold last year. As for PlayStation Plus subscribers, the latest information is from the end of March, when there were a total of 47.4 million people across the three tiers of the service.
The report also talks about the plan for 10 months (starting May) make $450 million in computer games. This suggests the release of more PlayStation games for PC. Ratchet & Clank: The Rift Apart has just arrived.
Source :Indian TV
