Simply after launching the PlayStation 5 Pro, Sony revealed that it has offered 65.5 million PlayStation 5s as of the tip of Q2 2024. Whereas gross sales of the console dropped 1.1 million items from the identical interval final yr (and are down 2 million items complete in 2024), this was greater than offset by sport gross sales of 77.7 million items, up 14.9 % from Q2 2023. Sony’s month-to-month lively PlayStation Community customers remained at 116 million regardless of a big price bump late final yr.
The web outcome? Income climbed by 9 % and working revenue rose by a stellar 73 % to 445.1 billion yen ($2.91 billion). Given these earnings and the truth that the corporate has a brand new, costlier (and doubtless extra worthwhile) console prepared for Christmas, Sony was bullish on the remainder of its yr, boosting its income forecast barely.
A giant a part of Sony’s sport gross sales story is the success of the motion RPG Black Myth: Wukong, which reportedly offered 20 million items in Q2 (together with the PC model). One other excessive performer was the primary occasion Astro Bot title, exhibiting the facility of hit video games to sway gross sales.
Sony nonetheless has two quarters left in its fiscal yr, which ends March 31. Upcoming first occasion titles anticipated previous to that embody Murderer’s Creed Shadow and Monster Hunter Wilds, each set for February 2025. Nonetheless, Sony’s fiscal 2025 beginning in April could possibly be a blockbuster with extremely anticipated video games like Ghost of Yotei, Loss of life Stranding 2, DOOM: The Darkish Ages and Grand Theft Auto VI arriving later subsequent yr.
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