The movies&tv licenses stuff?

"Revenue at Sony Pictures Entertainment in the fiscal year through the end of March was up 12 percent to $9.25 billion (￥1.011 trillion)."

"Overall sales at Sony Corp. were up 12 percent to $77 billion (￥8.54 trillion)"

- Hollywoodreporter.com

Operating income was like ~$7 billion.
So sony are profitable atm.

FY 2013 - 7.5M
FY 2014 - 14.8M (22.3M Total)
FY 2015 - 17.7M (40M Total)
FY 2016 - 20M (60M Total)
FY 2017 - 19M (79M Total)

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FY 2018 - 18M (97M Total)
FY 2019 - 16M (113M Total)
FY 2020 - 12M (125M Total)  (PS5 has now launched and PS4 sales slow)

Then maybe over the next 4 years it does another 10m?
Total sales of PS4 ends up around ~134m or so.

So I dont think it ll beat the PS2 in total sales.... However I can see it going over 130m, which isnt a bad number at all.

That´s a lot of Plus subscriptions!

The Pro has been out for nearly 2 years without a price-cut, so it is bound to get a price-cut in the near future. When the Pro is below $300 i believe the regular PS4 becomes redundant. Sure they could cut the price on the Slim to $200, but if that was the case then they would have projected sales a lot higher than 16 million. But at the end of the day what the hell do i know

Probably on the low end side of proyections.Still shows they won't do a price cut, which imo means longer lifespan

Maybe tech for a reasonably good ps5 won't become cheap enough so soon so they are trying to not burn their shots so soon. Still, ps4 seems to be expensive at this point in it's lifespan (correct me if I'm wrong) and sony are having great money with psn and software sales, they don't seem to want to rush things

A little sad for the down on the shipped numbers, but perhaps they are planning to exceed on the pricecut or just being realist about the phase-out part of PS4 by 2020 and the lowered sales that will happen until them.

Sony is obviously being conservative with their forecast, like they were last FY, when they said 18M, but shipped 19M.  They should do at least 17M this FY.  Like I said, to me that just shows we may just be getting a price cut of $50, which will help address drops, but it's not big enough to help them remain flat, especially with it coming so late in the FY. 

And there is no such thing as a redundant SKU, at least not when there is still a $100+ difference between the top and bottom.  And when the PS4 finally gets to $199, or possibly lower, in the next year or two, it'll help extend the PS4's legs.  Much better than a $299 Pro would, especially with a $399 PS5, possibly with PS4 B/C built in.

Sony won't. Apple and google spend far more developing their platforms in a quarter than Sony spends in an entire year. Sony cannot compete with iOS and Android, and it would be a huge waste of money to try.  It's complete nonsense that he continues to push.

In before he chimes in that your car stereo and your playstation should be running the same operating system because reasons.

At the end of Dec it was 73.6 million sold and 76.5 million shipped so a difference of 2.9 million.

They shipped 2.5 million last quarter but according to NPD/Media Create, US+Japan alone sold ~1.7 million and since Europe is their strongest region and factoring in RoTW than sales should be over 3 million for the quarter.

Its highly likely they sold more than they shipped last quarter to get rid of excess stock.

Yea, I think Sony will just have to settle for the 2nd best selling home console, and 3rd best console, of all time, lol.