Sony has finally presented the results of the first quarter of your current fiscal year, which began in April and ended in June of this year. Of course, you already know the news that PS5 has taken over record for the best-selling console in the shortest time in the history of PlayStation, reaching 10 million units sold worldwide, counting since its launch until July 18. However, despite how well Sony is doing with its hardware, it seems that the software does not go the same way.
The division of PlayStation has managed to close its first quarter of the current fiscal year with a 2% growth in its sales, an achievement not at all bad considering the tight situation in which PS5 was released and how difficult it has been to find it at affordable prices. However, PlayStation has seen a 33% drop in profits, and the company attributes it to low sales of third-party games and DLC, in addition to the low sales of the PS4 and the «strategic price»From the PS5, sold at a loss.
PlayStation Plus has not been so lucky
In addition to the sales data in the Sony financial report, the company has also published the global figures for the sale of games and other services from PlayStation. In this section, up to 63.6 million games sold on Sony consoles, with 71% of these sales come from digital sales.
Playstation plus, on the other hand, accumulate some 46.3 million subscribers for June 30. Despite being quite a high number, it’s a descent taking into account that for him month of March the service accumulated 47.6 million of users. On the other hand, active PlayStation Plus users they were estimated at 104 million, figure that also represents a decline with respect to 109 million owned by the company in the months between january and march.
Secondly, Jim Ryan has made it clear that the PS5 shortage won’t end anytime soon, but the company continues to work on improving the platform. As an example of this, Sony has started the process to add M.2 SSD on PS5, and although the requirements to do so are somewhat confusing, There are already manufacturers creating specific discs for the console.