GAME

FY2014
 Sales: 33.0% increase (CC basis: +25%)
·(+) Increase in PS4 hardware unit sales
·(+) Significant increase in network revenue
·(+) Impact of foreign exchange rates
·(+) Increase in PS4 software sales
·(--) Decrease in PS3 hardware and software sales
 OI: 66.9 bln yen increase
·(+) Increase in sales
·(+) Recording of 6.2 bln yen write-off of certain PC software
titles in FY13
·(--) Decrease in PS3 software sales
·(--) Unfavorable impact of the appreciation of the U.S. dollar,
reflecting the high ratio of U.S. dollar-denominated costs
·(--) Recording of 11.2 bln yen write-down of PS Vita and
PS TV components

Looking good in the gaming sector.

So PS4 is down 20% YOY. That's not bad for a system that still hasn't had a price drop.

PS4 > (X1 + 360) by a lot

360 > PS3 most likely

i.e. PS4 shipped more than double what the X1 did, easily.

Indeed. Here's hoping Sony can make the full fiscal year of 2015 good as well.

Like I said before Sony really have a problem with making a profit on their game division even when they are dominating like crazy. It is the Ps one/PS2 generation over again where they sold a ton of consoles and software but profits were rather dissapointing.

So can someone figure out with the PS3 numbers who is ahead, I think it's the 360?

Maybe because the ps4 launched in the quarter before? year on year gaming is up 25%

PS3:

FY06 - 3.5 million
FY07 - 9.1 million
FY08 - 10.1 million
FY09 - 13.0 million
FY10 - 14.3 million
FY11 - 13.9 million
FY12 - 16.5 million (includes PS2)
FY13 - 7.1 million
FY14 - 3.1 million

Total= 90.6m - PS2 FY12.

PS3 Should be over 88m easily, it's heavily undertracked here.

This is becuase of how Kutaragi ran the gaming unit. They still run it the same way today, and the board is going at Kaz because he is not running the company in the Sony way. 

Sony is not a buisness of stashing away mountains of cash, it is about innovating, and putting the money from customers back into the products. The PlayStation unit has R&D going for PS4 revisions, PS Vita and TV revisions, Project Morphues, Morpheus/Camera peripherals, PlayStation Network improvments, expansion of PS Now, and PS Vue to more areas, and more devices. Then they have dozens of games in development across their studios, and they are not out to make a hit with every one of them. They are trying to make games for every corner of the market. Some are garenteed losses, some are risks to expand gaming to new places. This is what Sony does.

There will never be a point in time where we see Microsoft and Apple sized profits out of Sony. It won't happen if they match, double, triple, or see revenue 10x greater than them. Sony does not operate to line the walls of their buildings with cash, and give mountains of gold to executives to sit on. Sony is about re-investing into the buisness, innovating, and placing no walls in the way of creativity and imagination.

That is why I love Sony and the PlayStation brand, and why I absolutly detest the success of the money hoarding and un-innovative companies leading market today.