Sony sold 7.8 million PlayStation 5 units till March 2021; 0.4 million smartphones in Q4 FY 2020
Sony Corporation has reported an operating profit of 971.9 billion yen, up 14.9% YoY on 2,220.4 billion yen revenue, up 26.9% YoY for the Fourth quarter of the financial year 2020 that ended March 31, 2021. It reported that sales of PlayStation 5 reached 7.8 million cumulative units as of the end of March since it started selling in November. The company sold 4.5 million in the last year, so it has added 3.3 million units in the first 3 months of this year.
Increase in profit is mainly due to significant increases in operating income in the Game & Network Services (G&NS) division due to an increase in game software sales including add-on content and an increase in hardware sales due to the launch of PlayStation 5.
Sony sold 4.5 million PlayStation 5 units, 1 million smartphones in Q3 FY 2020
Sony Corporation has reported an operating profit of 359.2 billion yen, up 20% YoY on 2,696.5 billion yen revenue, up 9% YoY for the third quarter of the financial year 2020 that ended December 31, 2020. It reported that sales of PlayStation 5 reached 4.5 million cumulative units as of the end of December since it started selling in November. This is despite a huge demand for the console since it was out of stock since the launch.
Sony said that it is currently on track to meet the sales goal for the fiscal year of more than 7.6 million units, but have not been able to fully meet the high level of demand from customers. The company added that it continue to do everything in its power to ship as many units as possible to