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Zipper on 04 February 2010

Will SCE announce game sales as well? I'm really interested to see how much Uncharted 2 did



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Zones on 04 February 2010
Xxain said:
so in Q3 ghey have 33.5 sold?... SO Q4 should be more..mean the numbers on front page are alitte off????

Sony's Q3 means the October-December period.

So Sony's Q4 (January-March) PS3 sales will be alot less than Q3.



radiantshadow92 on 04 February 2010

is this sold to consumers? or shipped?

 



Zones on 04 February 2010
Zipper said:
Will SCE announce game sales as well? I'm really interested to see how much Uncharted 2 did

They only post the total software shipment, meaning they don't talk about any specific game like Uncharted 2 in their quarterly earnings.



Xxain on 04 February 2010
Zones said:
Xxain said:
so in Q3 ghey have 33.5 sold?... SO Q4 should be more..mean the numbers on front page are alitte off????

Sony's Q3 means the October-December period.

So Sony's Q4 (January-March) PS3 sales will be alot less than Q3.


i meant overall sales

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wholikeswood on 04 February 2010
Zones said:
wholikeswood said:
Q1 2009: -386 Million
Q2 2009: -292 Million
Q3 2009: +861 Million
Q4 2009: N/A
Total so far: +183 Million

Looks like Sony as a company are going to post a profitable financial year. :D

From MarketWatch:

"For the full fiscal year through March, Sony halved its operating loss forecast to 30 billion yen ($330 million) from 60 billion yen ($60 million). It posted a 227.78 billion yen loss last fiscal year."

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sony-posts-sharply-higher-net-profit-2010-02-04

Presume you mean ~$660 million there.

But oh. :(



Swordy on 04 February 2010

Edit: nevermind

 



NJ5 on 04 February 2010

Good result for the company, all the cost cutting (layoffs etc) paid off.

As for the Gaming/VAIO/Walkman division, not so great. They barely made a profit, in the holiday quarter that's not a great result:

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/viewer/09q3/slide/image/14_image.jpg

It also says the profit was mostly due to VAIO, and gaming profitability unchanged (which basically means they broke even, as that was the result last year).

Summing up - good for Sony, not so good for the gaming division.



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Baph77737 on 04 February 2010

It's like txrattlesnake said the gap is only 5.2 million.



Frank_kc on 04 February 2010

Folks, note that it says 33.5 until January 1st. Which means based on VGCHARTZ numbers at that point, we have about 30.8 Million on January 1st (31.5- 700,000K January sales up to Jan 23rd).

So vgchartz based on shipped vs actual sold is assuming that we have 2.8 million PS3 setting on shelves, which in my openion is hard to believe with the shortages we had with the 120 GB SKU.

What do you guys think?