In the latest revenue announcement, Sony announced that it has spent the best Christmas period so far in this console with 9.5 million PlayStation 5 consoles in the last three months. Compared to the same quarter of the company until the last quarter, the company’s best quarter of the previous time, 1.3 million more units were sold and the number of PS5 sold reached 74.9 million.
The release of the PlayStation 5 Pro in the last autumn provided a support for the quarter, but Sony did not announce the special numbers for the new console version.
PS5 is only 1.5 million units of the sale of the PS4 compared to the same period of sales life cycle. Sony increased above expectations and made a profit of 469.3 billion yen (3.05 billion dollars) throughout all sections.
Despite the major decrease in the first -party sales in game sales, the company saw an increase in the third quarter of 2024 compared to 89.7 million in the previous quarter compared to 89.7 million. This increased the game software revenue of 784 billion ($ 5.1 billion) compared to 733 billion yen in the third quarter of 2023. Sony, especially Astro Bot and Helldivers 2, drawing attention to the success of the family and live service game offers intention to expand the intention to expand. The monthly active users of the PlayStation Network (PSN) increased from 123 million to 129 million.
Sony says that this year has “high expectations ında in game sales. Particular attention of the company’s attention, especially in 2025, is planned to be released in the Death Stranding 2 and Ghost of Yootei first party games.