Record-breaking year for Sony Interactive Entertainment despite no PS5.
Still struggling due to massive semiconductor shortages, the Sony PS5 is still lagging behind the PS4 (19.2 million consoles sold worldwide as of March 31, 2022, including 11.5 million during the fiscal year), compared to 22.5 million consoles sold worldwide during the same period). Not discouraged, although only two million players were able to purchase the new home console between January and March 2022, Sony estimates that it will be able to sell 18 million PS5s by the end of March 2023 to keep from catching up with the PS4, sales numbers can only improve in over the next few months.
As in February last year, Sony Interactive Entertainment continues to have the best year in its history with a turnover of 19.8 billion euros and an operating income of 2.5 billion euros. In the next financial year, SIE expects a strong increase in turnover (26.5 billion euros), but a decrease in operating profit (2.2 billion euros) following the growth in sales of consoles and peripherals. It should be noted that this is again Sony Group Corporation’s most productive activity, although Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Electronics earned 1.5 billion euros and 16.9 billion euros, respectively.
Sony Interactive Entertainment financial report, update on various figures
- 303 million PS5 and PS4 games sold, up from 338.8 million the previous year.
- 43.9 million in-house games sold, up from 58.4 million the previous year.
- 66% of PlayStation game sales came from downloads, up from 65% in the previous fiscal year.
- Boxed game sales: €935 million
- Download game sales: €4.2 billion
- Additional content sales: €6.2 billion
- Subscription sales: €2.9 billion
- Console sales: €4.2 billion
- Sales of accessories, PS VR and PC games: €1.3 billion
- One million PS4s sold per year (total 117 million since 2013)
- 47.4 million subscribers at the end of March 2022 compared to 48 million subscribers at the end of December 2021
- Decrease in the number of active users (from 111 million to 106 million in the last three months)