| Tober said: Good Catch. 2020/2021 Sony had trouble shipping PS5, so it's likely most profits came from the PS4 platform. Numbers can always interpreted in different ways and Sony's leadership choose to attribute it to the PS5 generation to juice up morale. |
Yes, and it's even more concerning given the fact Sony, in the same document, claims their users are still evenly split between Ps4 and Ps5 at 49m active users As of April 30, 2024.
This means that PS4 was likely leading in monthly active users in 2023, the last year of reported profitability. The PS5 can certainly be attributed with most 2023 profits but still, the PS4 was likely very substantial.
Also looking at 2023 the gap between revenue and profits has never been that huge since the early PS3 years, which means that substantial investments are required to keep the business running and that despite revenue and profits for 2020-2023 going up ROI is significantly down.
