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Soundwave on 09 May 2013
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DirtyP2002 said:
Soundwave said:
DirtyP2002 said:

Anybody care to explain:

 

"Sales decreased 12.2% year-on-year (a 15% decrease on a constant currency basis) to 707.1 billion yen (7,522
million U.S. dollars). Sales to external customers decreased 22.5% year-on-year. This significant decrease was
primarily due to a decrease in unit sales of PlayStation®3 (“PS3”) hardware and PSP® (PlayStation Portable)
(“PSP”) hardware and software, as well as PlayStation®Vita (“PS Vita”) hardware, partially offset by the favorable
impact of foreign exchange rates."


Erm, sounds like they sold fewer PS3s + PSPs and Vita sold poorly, but the lower sales were offset somewhat by a dropping yen.

My thoughts exactly. So when PS3 and PS Vita are actually down YoY and the total number of consoles shipped is up - WTF is the PS2 doing?!

Perhaps they are selling PS2s in bulk to an external distributor that will sell the systems in developing markets? *shrugs*.

EDIT: From above it looks like you just mixed up the quartly and full fiscal year. For the full fiscal year, Sony was indeed down on the PS3 and PSP. So that's not good.