Sony Increases PlayStation Sales Forecast - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 25 November 2014 / 6,148 Views
Sony Computer Entertainment President and CEO Andrew House presented a slideshow about the PlayStation division and its future, according to a report by DualShockers.
Sony has increased its sales forecast for the Game & Network Services Segment to between 1.4 trillion yen and 1.6 trillion yen ($11.8 billion and $13.5 billion). This is a huge increase of 1.29 trillion yen in revenue for the current fiscal year.
Sony also broke the sales down by region in the fiscal year 2013. Americas sales accounted for 42 percent of the sales and Europe, Middle East and Others also accounted for 42 percent of sales. Japan and Asia accounted for 16 percent of the sales.
Hardware sales for the fiscal year 2013 accounted for 56 percent of the revenue. Software and services accounted for 44 percent of the sales.
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Well it's been going great, hopefully they can build on their current success!
Come Wii fanbase, there's no shovelware here!
How would that help?
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Not much can be said about someone that defines himself by what he/she hates...
$13.5 Billion?! That's a pretty good amount of revenue from just one division of the corporation. Hopefully they continue to sell off their less profitable divisions, and focus on the ones that make them money.
Yeeeh... no! Except that is not what Sony or Dualshockers said.
Sony had forecast for the current fiscal year of 1,290 billion yen in sales. Now they are forecasting between 1,400 and 1,600 billion yen.
Not "a huge increase of 1.29 trillion yen" (= 1,290 billion yen), but a between 110 and 310 billion yen (= between 0.11 and 0.31 trillion yen) increase, wich is great but not what William D'Angelo is writting here.
It's been a great year for Sony.
For the Playstation brand moreso but yeah outside of their mobile department they are all making some bit of money, good to see.
