Sony announced earlierIts third-quarter financial results for fiscal year 2024, of which sales amounted to 3 trillion yen, a 6957% increase over the same period last year, revenue reached 7 billion yen, a 4230% increase over the same period last year, and net profit was 10 billion yen, a 3411% increase over the same period last year.
As for the gaming business, it is still one of Sony's main sources of revenue, with sales reaching 1 trillion yen and revenue reaching 6823 billion yen. PlayStation 1181 game consoles sold 5 million units in the last quarter, of which SonyPlayStation 5 Pro launchedThis is related to the fact that the cumulative number of PlayStation 5 game consoles has reached 7490 million units, and the cumulative sales of hardware peripherals including game consoles have reached 7247 billion yen.
However, Sony did not separately disclose the sales data of the PlayStation 5 Pro game console. Compared with the sales of the PlayStation 4 series in the same sales cycle, the current sales of the PlayStation 5 are only 150 million units less, and it may officially surpass the cumulative sales of the PlayStation 4 in the next quarter.
On the other hand, game content corresponding to game consoles such as PlayStation 5 also sold 7182 billion yen in the last quarter, and the number of game copies sold increased to 2100 million. The number of monthly active users of the PlayStation Network service also increased to 9590 million, and the sales amount of network services reached 1.29 billion yen.
At the same time, Sony expects to continue to use games to drive more sales opportunities, and plans to launch works published by its global game studios such as "Death Stranding 5" and "Ghost in the Shell" on the PlayStation 2 platform.
