Sony shares the financial results of the PlayStation branch

It’s the week of financial statements for players in the video game industry and sony follows in the footsteps of her boyfriends today. For starters, the firm said it had having shipped 9 million PS4s in the last quarter (from October 1 to December 31, 2017), thus increasing the total base at 76.5 million. Even if the manufacturer evokes distributed consoles this time, and in view of the success of the machine, one suspects that the stores will have no difficulty in finding buyers.

Although this score is high, it is down with a difference of 0.70 million units compared to last year. Nevertheless, sony manages to turn the tide because revenue increased by 16.2% thanks to game sales, which includes PlayStation Network sales.

THE operating income thus increases from 50 billion yen to 85 billion yen. Faced with this good health, the giant maintains its forecasts distribute 19 million consoles by the end of the fiscal year (March 31, 2018), to reach 79 million machines shipped.

Kenichiro Yoshidawho now replaces Kaz Hirai in his post, underlined the fact that the PlayStation Plus continues to be profitable, alleviating the problems associated with the traditional console cycle. As of December 31, 2017, there were 31.5 million online service subscribers.

The PlayStation branch is still in the green and software investments between January/March will be comparable to 2017, but sales at this level have increased. PS4 production costs have dropped, leading to better profits. On the other hand, the fourth half should be below what we have seen given that there are currently no big games like Horizon Zero Dawn for example.

Between October and December, PSN sales jumped 41% to over 300 billion yen, a first in the brand’s history.

Sony is banking on PlayStation to improve its financial health

Sony shares PlayStation Network and PlayStation Plus figures

An increasing financial balance sheet for PlayStation with 57.1 million PS4s

PlayStation 5: AMD shares its excitement and evokes a ‘special sauce’

Cory Barlog (God of War) shares his favorite games on PlayStation 4

PlayStation VR rolls around Europe and shares its Japanese sales

Sparc Shares PlayStation VR Release Date and Price

Sony Announces PlayStation Meeting 2016 to Reveal PlayStation Neo

Xbox vs Playstation: Microsoft and Sony send each other blow for blow

Sony: no Playstation day one exclusives on PC, unless they can pay big

Sony is giving PlayStation Plus to everyone for a weekend