PlayStation Business advances in Sony with 16 % growth in a quarter of holidays

Sony I mentioned PlayStation (Game and Network Services) Business sales of 1,682.3 billion yen in a quarter of holidays, an increase of 237.9 billion yen, or 16 %, over last year.

The increase in hardware sales was due to the increase in the sales of the unit of devices, in addition to increasing the sales of third -party game programs, including additional content.

On a quarter of the holidays, Sony sold 9.5 million PlayStation 5 games, compared to 8.2 million in the previous year. Sony sold 95.6 million copies of PS5 and PS4 programs in FYQ3 2024, up from 89.7 million in the previous year. Sony sold 11.6 million copies of the first -party games in the holiday neighborhood, a decrease of 16.2 million in the previous year. PlayStation 129 million players had an increase of 123 million players in the previous year.

The operating income was 31.9 billion yen for a quarter, an increase of 37 %. The modified operating income before consumption and firefighting was 34.9 billion yen, an increase of 31 %. This came from greater sales of network services, third -party game programs, devices losses and a decrease in sales of first -party game programs.

Sony now expects better total revenues for the fiscal year, as sales are expected to reach 4610 billion yen for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025, an increase of 120 billion yen.

On the contrary, Microsoft said that its Xbox game devices have decreased by 29 % from the previous year. This means that Sony is moving forward, although Microsoft had Microsoft a great quarter to launch the game during holidays.

Sony expects game and network services to report the operating income of 500 billion yen, or 25 billion yen more than previously expected. Over the course of nine months ending December 31, 2024, Sony reported the modified operating income before consumption and extinguishing 412.6 billion yen, an increase of 140.6 billion yen from previous estimates.

For the third financial quarter ending on December 31, 2024, Sony reported the modified operating income before consumption decreased and extinguishing 148 billion yen, an increase of 34.9 billion yen.

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