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Forums - Sony Discussion - SONY Q1 FY 2014 results: 3.5m PS3+PS4, 0.75m PSP+PSV+PSVTV. $265m net profit.

gooch_destroyer on 31 July 2014

Good job, Sony.



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tbone51 on 31 July 2014
Conegamer said

2.6mil PS4

0.9mil PS3

0.45mil PSV

0.2mil PSP

0.1mil PSTV

Just a guess. Strong quarter for PS4 though, no matter how you slice it. 

PSTV nowhere close to 100k, more like 15k Shipped, you can add those numbers to psp/psv :0



Tamron on 31 July 2014
MikeRox said:
Tamron said:
kowenicki said:

This will be helped by decent TV sales from the World Cup promos (I even bought a Sony TV!).

 

 

This thread has reached it's high point :P

But really, Sony tv's are great, the only thing that isn't great about them (usually) is the price, since the competition make theirs elsewhere and can undercut them massively.


I thought Sony stopped manufacturing the panels a while back? As far as I know a Sony TV is just someone elses rebadged in a shinier case now.

You thought wrong, or are just on the wrong end of the specification spectrum.



AnthonyW86 on 31 July 2014
michael_stutzer said:
Conegamer said:

Not bad for PS3+PS4; sadly expected for PSV+PSP.

Would be nice if they cut the crap and just split them up though, rather than having to second guess. If I had to guess though?

 

2.6mil PS4

0.9mil PS3

0.45mil PSV

0.2mil PSP

0.1mil PSTV

Just a guess. Strong quarter for PS4 though, no matter how you slice it. 

I don't think 0.9 million PS3 shipment is anywhere near true. PS3 shipment was 1.1 milion this quarter last year. You are saying PS3 sales decreased by about 18% even though in every NPD report the decrease was about 60-65%. Even if we assume the numbers stayed the same YOY everywhere else, the drop would be bigger. I'd say 750k tops and that is being generous.

PS3 being any lower than 700k-800k would mean PS4 would be over 10 million by now. I think Sony would have made an announcement if that was the case.



phaedruss on 31 July 2014
AnthonyW86 said:

PS3 being any lower than 700k-800k would mean PS4 would be over 10 million by now. I think Sony would have made an announcement if that was the case.


These are shipped numbers still. That would be something like 9.8 million shipped. They've been announcing sold-through. 



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Zod95 on 31 July 2014
DerNebel said:
Zod95 said:
It would be nice to have a table comparing the revenue, operating income and net profit of the different years to put this into perspective. I believe things are going better now (at least in videogames) and I hope Sony doesn't try to do just the minimum to get the sales (like Nintendo did last generation). I know they aren't in good financial shape but the videogaming segment is profitable and worth investing.

Here you go, doesn't tell us much though I think.

Exactly what I asked for! Thank you so much!

Actually, it tell us something. Sony was meant to be big and relevant but not to generate significant profits (even in the PS2's times golden age). More recently (2011 and 2012) it was negative, and only selling its US headquarters in 2013 the company was able to "turn the tide" (at least present it as such). PS4's hugely strong launch was also decisive for that. 2014 seems to be the first year of real growth and again PS4 seems to be one of the major reasons for that to happen.

In the coming years, the games will help the PS4 to sell more and, with no major R&D costs in the near future (no new console for a while), maybe we will see that green line significantly above the zero line.



Prediction made in 14/01/2014 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 70M      WiiU: 25M

Prediction made in 01/04/2016 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 18M

Prediction made in 15/04/2017 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 90M      XOne: 40M      WiiU: 15M      Switch: 20M

Prediction made in 24/03/2018 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 110M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 14M      Switch: 65M

MikeRox on 31 July 2014
Tamron said:

You thought wrong, or are just on the wrong end of the specification spectrum.


Indeed, it's just half of them

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/sony-taiwan-lcd-tv-panels-half-20101207950.htm

I'll stick with my Panasonic Viera anyway ^_^

Either way, PS4 numbers are very impressive considering the thing hasn't had much in the way of exclusive system sellers yet. Does make you wonder if exclusives are as key as some people thing.



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Zod95 on 31 July 2014
offensive_nickname said:

fixxed

but still a to big discrepancy

but vgz had june npd software even way toooo low

edit: yes i am right. software sales is bln yen figure not units

Maybe Sony is counting with the PS Plus monthly offers.



Prediction made in 14/01/2014 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 70M      WiiU: 25M

Prediction made in 01/04/2016 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 18M

Prediction made in 15/04/2017 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 90M      XOne: 40M      WiiU: 15M      Switch: 20M

Prediction made in 24/03/2018 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 110M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 14M      Switch: 65M

OttoniBastos on 31 July 2014

So is this good news? bad news? Brighter or darker future?



kitler53 on 31 July 2014
Conegamer said:

Not bad for PS3+PS4; sadly expected for PSV+PSP.

Would be nice if they cut the crap and just split them up though, rather than having to second guess. If I had to guess though?

 

2.6mil PS4

0.9mil PS3

0.45mil PSV

0.2mil PSP

0.1mil PSTV

Just a guess. Strong quarter for PS4 though, no matter how you slice it. 

probably a reasonable split given that ps3 was 1.1M last year,.. i believe.  vgc for the week ending july 5th was at 8.5M and 2.6M + the previous 7M is 9.6M shipped.  i'd wager vgc is slightly undertracking ps4 right now.  maybe by about 100-300k depending on how reasonable that 0.9M assumption for ps3 is.