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Sony's making big money again, it's been a while.
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Sony FY2015 Earnings ($1.3b profit; 40m PS4 Shipped)
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blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Congrats. It's going to be so interesting with PS4 Nero.
Zekra Dezivad
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Never forget.
I really don't see how anyone could reasonably expect anything higher, have you not been following Sony the past years? This is their biggest profit in a long ass time.
Daredevil.shark
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Kaz is doing his job. Awesome news for Sony. Next quarter PS4 will ship a lot due to Uncharted 4.
iPhone sales have saturated a good amount as seen by Apple financials earlier this week.
Sensors were a real money maker too the last couple years hope it holds up.
3rdamention
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I believe in Kaz Hirai..
Neuromancer
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Where do we figure Xbox One's trajectory fits in? I am guessing between the 360 and the PS3.This was posted in the locked thread by bananafactory
Zombie James
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Kaz seems to be doing a great job turning things around.
Keep in mind that Microsoft hasn't given any official figures for the XB1 in a long time and the best we have now are estimations, though.
Neuromancer
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DriftingSpirit
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Sony proper.
Zombie James
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Felt like a lot of people assumed that because the Wii U bombed, the entire industry would bomb.
KillerMan91
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Uncharted 4 slipping to next quarter probably hurt the profitability of gaming division this quarter a decent amount as it would had easily shipped at least 5 million units first week. Still as a whole great FY result and profits are just going to improve during the following year (a lot of first party releases, VR, Neo etc).
Napalm_Frank
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Brace Yourself...
Games are coming.
Unfortunately just like Winter they are always delayed till next season!
Samurai G0SU
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Awesome news! Can't wait to pick up mine later this year. NEO
Acquiescence
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Brace Yourself...
Games are coming.
No One Can Stop Mr. Domino! 2 better be one of them.
Well the Wii U, Xbox One, Vita, and 3DS have all fallen off a cliff. PlayStation is the one outlier in an industry full of flailing competitors.
The narrative around Sony during all of last gen was insane. They outsold 360 from launch, if you align the dates, and are around 90 million units moved. Nintendo hit 90m with one console in their entire history.
Despite the fact that the PS4 and Xbone are doing great, people will still freak out about the console industry being dead.
Zombie James
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The Xbone is doing poorly compared to the PS4, but isn't it still outpacing the 360? As for handhelds, the writing's been on the wall for years.
XB1 seems to be doing 'ok', even though its not as good as PS4. You don't count a console not selling like Wii as a failure.
SomedayTheFire
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Xbox One did no such thing.
FalsettoVibe
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This was posted in the locked thread by bananafactory
Nice. Thanks.
Zombie James
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Neither console is going to bell-curve like the Wii, either.
Edit: Unless everyone jumps on the Neo and the PS4 craters.
ethomaz
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Sony had BB last year while the Big hit this year was related to May.
That could explain "only" 2.3m.
DomsPlaying
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Solid double-digit revenue growth from the Game & Network Services (G&NS) segment, which now is the largest operating unit overall for Sony (per Page F-6 of Earnings Release).
However, I find it interesting that Hardware sales actually declined slightly year-over-year, while Network segment was up 50%. Per Page F-8 in the same document:
Hardware is still obviously the largest portion of the G&NS unit, but I wouldn't have anticipated a decline with the strength of PS4. This must be due to the ongoing phase-out of PS3 plus continued lackluster Vita sales, no?
However, I find it interesting that Hardware sales actually declined slightly year-over-year, while Network segment was up 50%. Per Page F-8 in the same document:
Hardware is still obviously the largest portion of the G&NS unit, but I wouldn't have anticipated a decline with the strength of PS4. This must be due to the ongoing phase-out of PS3 plus continued lackluster Vita sales, no?
I'd say it's even doing good.
In the US and UK.
But we are talking WW sales, and the XB1 isn't doing too good overall (those 2 markets, maybe 3 with Mexico, being its lifeline particularly around the Holidays), and already starting to fall behind the 360.
Banjo-Kazooie
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Damn at that PSN money!
I don't remember Microsoft releasing press statements about Xbox 360s monthly active users. It was just sales, sales, sales. Xbox 360 was a US and kinda sorta western Europe sales juggernaut. Xbox One is a distant second in those territories and like the X360 has no presence anywhere else in the world. Whispers in the halls of Redmond echo "disaster." It's a real mess like everyone in the console industry except Sony's PlayStation 4.
I think this month means a lot for X1. At $299 with a free game it has to move a lot of Units. If it doesn't that's certainly not a good sign.
Who knows with that -shrug-. But if Sony keeps up the support, i doubt it would ever crater like the Wii U did once the grandma's put it back in their closet and the afternoon talk shows stopped showboating it
Well, XB was never good WW to begin with, no?
Dirk Benedict
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Disaster is a strong word. Sales seem fine, but PS4 is an absolute terror so, of course, their marketshare dropped considerably. Almost the entirety of the console market contraction is from Nintendo shitting the bed and collapsing entirety.
Outrun
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With all due respect, it has taken Kaz a longer than expected time to turn things around at Sony.
Regardless, this is good news for the corp.
Solid double-digit revenue growth from the Game & Network Services (G&NS) segment, which now is the largest operating unit overall for Sony (per Page F-6 of Earnings Release).
However, I find it interesting that Hardware sales actually declined slightly year-over-year, while Network segment was up 50%. Per Page F-8 in the same document:
Hardware is still obviously the largest portion of the G&NS unit, but I wouldn't have anticipated a decline with the strength of PS4. This must be due to the ongoing phase-out of PS3 plus continued lackluster Vita sales, no?
there is a reason the ps4k is being made. it will definitely sell more by replacing the ps3 at a higher price and increase revenue and numbers for next year as a result.
DriftingSpirit
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Well, look at what Kaz was handed to turn around. Sony was in shambles.
ethomaz
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I don't believe Xbone out passing is true anymore after last quarter.
It was true at Dec quarter by a small margin... 360 right now is outpassing Xbone in every tracker we have data.
MS won't say it is ahead in PR anymore
Dirk Benedict
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Mr. Hirai had a very tough shitstorm to unravel when he took the helm. He could have refused, but instead he took the job and even made PlayStation something Sony took more seriously than before.
To me that spells M o r e G a m e s. That's exceptionally alright with me.
Solid double-digit revenue growth from the Game & Network Services (G&NS) segment, which now is the largest operating unit overall for Sony (per Page F-6 of Earnings Release).
However, I find it interesting that Hardware sales actually declined slightly year-over-year, while Network segment was up 50%. Per Page F-8 in the same document:
Hardware is still obviously the largest portion of the G&NS unit, but I wouldn't have anticipated a decline with the strength of PS4. This must be due to the ongoing phase-out of PS3 plus continued lackluster Vita sales, no?
They sold 14.6 million at the price of US $400.. now they are selling 17.7 million at the price of US $ 350. So the increase probably have not covered the drop in sales of PS3 and Vita.
They did not sell all 17.7 million at $350.
Solid double-digit revenue growth from the Game & Network Services (G&NS) segment, which now is the largest operating unit overall for Sony (per Page F-6 of Earnings Release).
However, I find it interesting that Hardware sales actually declined slightly year-over-year, while Network segment was up 50%. Per Page F-8 in the same document:
Hardware is still obviously the largest portion of the G&NS unit, but I wouldn't have anticipated a decline with the strength of PS4. This must be due to the ongoing phase-out of PS3 plus continued lackluster Vita sales, no?
PSN share should grow to over hardware levels, hopefully even by the next year, if not then 2018. They dont make anything on hardware so its sole purpose is to sell PSN services.
One of the mods here was hooked on that angle prior to the PS4/XO launch, always preaching long write-ups of doom and gloom for the industry in a lot of threads. It got to a point of predictability to where my eyes would just gloss past his post whenever I saw his avatar since it was the same thing over and over.
Funny how that dried up soon after launch.