Although sales of PlayStation 5 consoles remain stable, Sony lowered its profit forecast due to a drop in sales in the video game sector.
Sonythe creators of PlayStation they reported a reduction in your financial expectations of the company by the end of the year and this is due to the drop in customer interest in video games.
Initially, it’s not all bad news for Sony. Talking about sale of playstation 5 consolesthe Japanese remain confident that their numbers will increase compared to those obtained in 2021, where they sold 11 million devices and by 2022 the amount is expected to be 18 million.
Nevertheless, Sony I wouldn’t make a prediction of this caliber if everything was going smoothly. For this reason, this responsibility falls on video game sales numbers. On your benefit report that includes from April to June 2022it was reported a 37% crash in the purchase of games by its customers.
According to Hiroki Totokibusinessman linked to Sonythese digits are due to people’s lack of interest in video games due to the fact that the restrictions by Covid-19 they were freed and, therefore, the clients have stopped having so much time to be inside their houses.
In addition, others of those pointed out by Sony it was the lack of big titles in the first half of 2022. Yes ok this year PlayStation had the return of Grand Touring 7 and the exclusivity of Horizon Forbidden West either Ghostwire: TReview Ghostwire: Tokyo – Beyond saving the city from ghosts, the important thing is petting and feeding puppiesOK me were not a resounding success, as if he succeeded Elden Ringvideo game that took all the attention during the first quarter of the year.
Secondly, PlayStation Network lost 3% of their usual users, but they still retain an amount close to 102 million of linked accounts. Despite this, we still do not have the first figures of the renewed PSPlusa service for which we will only have data at the end of the year.
At the same time, let us remember that Sony acquired to Bungiedeveloper behind the franchise Halofor about $3.6 billion that will bear fruit later, in a project that we still do not know. Lastly, the cards up his sleeve that remain for PlayStation for 2022 are the releases of god of war ragnarok and the remake of The Last of Us Part 1.
Currently video game sales are a 79% via digitaland have a growth of eleven% in the last year, which demonstrates both the drop in physical versions and also the influence of video game services by streamingsomething in which Sony you already have covered in PSPlus. Will your service streaming who climbs the 2022 Sony Financial?