Sony sold 7.1 million PS 5 consoles in the final quarter of 2022, mobile division not doing so well

Sony has yet resolved nan proviso issues for nan PlayStation 5 and nan impervious is successful nan pudding – aliases alternatively its financial study for nan past 3 months of 2022. The institution sold 7.1 cardinal PS5 consoles, a monolithic summation from nan 3.9 cardinal it managed a twelvemonth prior.

This boosted nan Games & Network Services gross to JPY 1,246 billion, up from JPY 813 cardinal for nan aforesaid play successful 2021 – a monolithic 53% increase. Even much telling is that nan bulk of nan income came from hardware alternatively that integer contented for illustration nan twelvemonth agone 4th (game income are up arsenic well).

In total, Sony has sold 32.1 cardinal PlayStation 5s since motorboat (up from 25 million full successful November). Its extremity is to scope 37 cardinal by nan extremity of its fiscal 4th (which ends successful March, not December). The number of PlayStation Plus subscribers went down, but nan number of Monthly Active Users is up slightly.

Here’s a look astatine crippled sales, focused connected nan apical capacity past and present. God of War Ragnarok for nan PS5 sold 11 cardinal copies. Note: look astatine nan number successful nan brackets connected nan right, that is nan number of days since merchandise erstwhile nan peculiar income milestone was achieved.

Of course, Sony has different divisions, music, for example. Harry Styles, Beyonce and SZA topped nan charts successful nan past 4th of 2022. Sony makes movies too, though gross and income were down that quarter.

Sales of image sensors were up and Sony accrued accumulation capacity compared to nan aforesaid play successful 2021. The institution predicts little portion income for nan adjacent quarter, which will beryllium “partially offset by an betterment successful nan merchandise mix”, i.e. trading much costly sensors connected average.

There was thing other too, what was it? Right, phones! Unfortunately, it’s not bully news – during nan past 3 months of 2022 nan Mobile Communications section took successful JPY 93 billion, down from JPY 102 cardinal for nan aforesaid play successful 2021.

You tin find PDFs done nan root links if you want a deeper look, including nan capacity of nan company’s different divisions (e.g. Financial Services) and nan consolidated results.

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