Sony has published its financial results for the nine months that end on December 31, 2024, which saw growth in all areas, but especially during the holiday period.
The head of the platform saw great increases in income in its segment of games and network services, with the PS5 experimenting its best quarter so far. The company has increased its sales forecasts for PlayStation as a result.
This is what you need to know:
The numbers:
For the nine months ended December 31, 2024
- Sales: ¥ 10.3 billion ($ 66.9 billion, 8.2% per year)
- Operational income: ¥ 1.2 billion ($ 7.8 billion, plus 22.9%)
Games and Network Services
- Sales: ¥ 3.6 billion ($ 23.4 billion, up 13.8%)
- Operational income: ¥ 322.1 billion ($ 2.1 billion, 74.8%)
The outstanding aspects:
Sony sent 9.5 million units PS5 during the holiday period (Q3) compared to last year. This total includes the sales of PlayStation Pro, which was launched in November 2024.
The holiday season proved to be the best quarter for the PS5 so far, and the firm pointed out that it was “essentially the same level as the accumulated sales for the PS4 for the same period from the launch.”
In the nine months ending in December 2024, the PS5 sent 15.7 million units. When considering the sales of calendar Q1, 20.2 million units moved in 2024.
At the end of the third quarter, the number of monthly active users grew to 129 million, compared to 123 million compared to December 2023, marking the largest number of maus in the history of PS. Total game time also increased by 2% year -on -year during Q3, which resulted in a seventh consecutive year of year -on -year growth.
More than 40% of consumers who bought a PS5 during the holiday period were new in the console, which “contributed substantially” to the growth of Mau.
Complete sales of the game were 95.9 million during the third quarter, with 11.6 million titles first. Although the complete sales of the game increased from 89.7 million sold in the same period last year, first -part sales fell 16.2 million.
During his earning call, Sony highlighted the success of Astro Bot and Helldivers 2, two third -party titles launched in September and August 2024 respectively.
Astro Bot sold 1.5 million units after 58 days in the market, while Helldivers 2 sold 12 million units (combined PS and PC sales) after 87 days in the market.
Noting the success that both games achieved in numerous awards ceremonies, Sony said: “The fact that genres are aimed at expanding in the future, including titles for families and live service games, they have received [accolades] It is a big step to our building a wider title portfolio. “
The firm said that “an additional expansion of the profits” for the fiscal year2025 after the release of Ghost of Y & Omacr; Tei and Death Stranding 2: On The Beach.
In general, Sony saw sales increase by 16% during the vacation quarter for its segment of game and network services, reaching ¥ 1.7 billion ($ 11 billion).
Digital game and additional content sales increased 13.6% year -on -year to ¥ 718.2 billion ($ 4.6 billion), while hardware sales grew almost 10% to ¥ 724.7 billion ($ 4.7 billion).
Network services revenue increased by 29% year -on -year to ¥ 176.9 billion ($ 1.1 billion), with playstation plus sales that increase 20% “mainly due to a change to higher levels of service and the impact of Price reviews “.
Sony has increased its forecasts for the current fiscal year, and hopes that G&M sales reach ¥ 4.6 billion ($ 29.9 billion), 3% more than the previous guide of ¥ 4.5 billion ($ 29.2 billion) and an improvement 9.5% of ¥ 4.2 Trillions Trillones ($ 27.3 billion) achieved in the last fiscal year.
