Sony financials Q1FY2021

[the-pi-guy]

ArmGunar's Era thread

Highlights :
Q1 FY21: Over $5.62B Revenue and $0.761B Profit between April-June 2021
Biggest Q1 Revenue ever for PlayStation (and for any platform holder)
Top 3 biggest Q1 Revenue ever:
Sony Q1 FY21
Sony Q1 FY20
Sony Q1 FY18
2nd biggest Revenue ever for PlayStation (and for any platform holder) during a non-Holiday quarter (non-Q3)
Top 5 biggest non-Q3 Revenue ever:
Sony Q4 FY20 (Jan-Mar 2021)
Sony Q1 FY21 (April-June 2021)
Sony Q1 FY20 (April-June 2020 - FF7R/TLOU Part II)
Sony Q2 FY18 (July-Sept 2018 - Spider-Man)
Sony Q2 FY20 (July-Sept 2020 - Ghost of Tsushima)
3rd best Operating Profit ever for PlayStation during Q1
6th best Operating Profit ever for PlayStation during any quarter

Hardware:
PS5 : 2.3m units / LTD: 10.1m
PS4 : 0.5m units / LTD: 116.4m
Software:
PS4/PS5 : 63.6m games sold
including 10.5m Sony-published games (vs 18.8m - Q1 FY20)
accounting for 16.5% of total games sold this Q1 FY21 (vs 20.6% - Q1 FY20)
Software digital ratio : 71%

[the-pi-guy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-has-already-secured-the-necessary-chips-for-hitting-ps5-shipment-target-ratchet-clank-and-mlb-surpassed-expectations.466533/

Ratchet and Clank, Returnal (at only 560k sales), MLB surpassed sales expectations.

Big plans for Nixxes Software.

He also added that PlayStation Studios is accelerating investments to strengthen its production capabilities, mentioning the acquisition of Housemarque as an example and that seven of Sony's thirteen studios have been acquired.

Totoki-san also mentioned the acquisition of Nixxes, which has "excellent technology for porting game software between different platforms such as PC." Sony expects that "Nixxes will offer technological support to all of its studios in a horizontal manner."

Already has secured their target for chips:

Asked about the ongoing semiconductor shortage, Totoki-san mentioned that the target of PS5 units to be shipped this year has been set and Sony has secured the number of chipsets necessary to achieve that target.

[the-pi-guy]

PS5 has started breaking even on the main hardware.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

[Dr. Pezus]

PS5 has started breaking even on the main hardware.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

I need to pay to read that

[kitler53]

just wow.   sony is killing it.  

..now take some of those profits and buy some more studios.

[Legend]

I nailed my 120 mil prediction for PS4.

PS5 though, I have no freaking clue. It is doing so incredible but I'm nervous about its future potential. What will gaming look like in 5 years with pc ports, crossplay, subscriptions, and streaming.

just wow.   sony is killing it.  

..now take some of those profits and buy some more studios.

At least fund some exclusives. Both Microsoft and Epic are pulling away studios that used to be PlayStation focused.

[BananaKing]

Sony is really pissing money lately arent they. Their current leadership is doing wonders. Of course a lot of credit still goes back to kaz who built the foundations for all this.

PS4 could have easily sold more than 120 if it weren't for the shortage in chipsets.