Sony Earnings Report - 3M PS4s Shipped, Strong Software Sales, Revenue Increases - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 30 July 2015 / 3,541 Views
Sony has released its earnings report for the last quarter, which ended on June 30, 2015. Overall, revenue decreased by just 0.1 percent to $14.82 billion. Operating income increased 38.8 percent to $794 million.
The Game & Network division that includes the PlayStation business saw revenue increase 12.1 percent to $2.37 billion. Operating income skyrocketed 350.5 percent to $160 million. This is due to the strong sales of the PlayStation 4 console and PlayStation 4 software.
Sony shipped three million PlayStation 4 consoles. That is up from 2.7 million during the same quarter a year ago. To compare, Microsoft shipped 1.4 million Xbox consoles (Xbox One and Xbox 360 combined) during the same period.
Sony expects to ship 16.5 million PlayStation 4 consoles for the fiscal year. That is up from 16 million during the previous year and would bring PlayStation 4 shipments to 38.8 million by March 31, 2016.
Sony did not give sales figures for the PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Vita.
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The way I see it, the only thing that can prevent the PS4 from surpassing the PS2 is if Nintendo's new console is superior hardware wise, forcing a new generation faster than what we anticipate.
So basically the public saw Microsoft's big guns and they still prefer PS4. If PS4 monopolized 2015 with an average line-up. I can't even project the market-share in 2016 when the PS4 starts getting first party exclusives.
THis is more connected to the excellent job Sony did in getting huge marketing deals on almost every major multiplat this year. I think MS thought they had all of these System exclusives and didn't go after the multiplats advertising deals. It cost them...
Well. I don't disagree.
