Sony Shatters Industry Revenue Record For 6th Straight Quarter, 13.4M Sold

[Gizmo_Duck]

Highlights :

• Q2 FY21: Over $5.86B Revenue and $0.751B Profit between July-Sept 2021
  • Biggest Q2 Revenue ever for PlayStation (and for any platform holder)
    • Top 3 biggest Q2 Revenue ever:
      1. Sony Q2 FY21
      2. Sony Q2 FY18
      3. Sony Q2 FY20
  • 2nd biggest Revenue ever for PlayStation (and for any platform holder) during a non-Holiday quarter (non-Q3)
    • Top 6 biggest non-Q3 Revenue ever:
      1. Sony Q4 FY20 (Jan-Mar 2021)
      2. Sony Q2 FY21 (July-Sept 2021)
      3. Sony Q1 FY21 (April-June 2021)
      4. Sony Q1 FY20 (April-June 2020 - FF7R/TLOU Part II)
      5. Sony Q2 FY18 (July-Sept 2018 - Spider-Man)
      6. Sony Q2 FY20 (July-Sept 2020 - Ghost of Tsushima)
  • 6th biggest Revenue ever for any platform holder during any quarter
    • Top 7 biggest Quarterly Revenue ever :
      1. Sony Q3 FY20 (Oct-Dec 2020)
      2. Sony Q3 FY18 (Oct-Dec 2018)
      3. Sony Q3 FY17 (Oct-Dec 2017)
      4. Nintendo Q3 FY08 (Oct-Dec 2008)
      5. Sony Q4 FY20 (Jan-Mar 2021)
      6. Sony Q2 FY21 (July-Sept 2021)
      7. Sony Q1 FY21 (April-June 2021)
  • 3rd best Operating Profit ever for PlayStation during Q2
  • 7th best Operating Profit ever for PlayStation during any quarter
• Hardware:
  • PS5 : 3.3m units / LTD: 13.4m
  • PS4 : 0.2m units / LTD: 116.6m
• Software:
  • PS4/PS5 : 76.4m games sold
    • including 7.6m Sony-published games (vs 12.8m - Q2 FY20)
      • accounting for 9.9% of total games sold this Q2 FY21 (vs 15.6% - Q2 FY20)

Launched aligned, it is trailing the ps4 by a thousand units but surpassing the ps4 in total revenue and profit.

During the briefing, Sony highlighted HFW and GT7 and announced that they are planning to keep investing aggressively to grow its first-party development capabilities.

 

[Grand Conde]

Sony shyt. Our dominance is boring at this stage.

 

[Koba St]

Sony shyt. Our dominance is boring at this stage.

Our?

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Our?

Maybe he has investments in sony?

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Sony stans

 

[Negro Caesar]

I’ll never understand why u nikkas care about how many PlayStations/Xbox get sold,Unless u got stock in the company

 

[Diondon]

@PS5

 

[Half A $]

Sony stans

Are Ms ever going to post numbers again? They even hiding gameass numbers now

 

[King Sun]

Are Ms ever going to post numbers again? They even hiding gameass numbers now

Game pass numbers are Xbox sales

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Are Ms ever going to post numbers again? They even hiding gameass numbers now

 

[ColdSlither]

I’ll never understand why u nikkas care about how many PlayStations/Xbox get sold,Unless u got stock in the company

Because it's fun to troll and bullshyt

 

[ColdSlither]

Are Ms ever going to post numbers again? They even hiding gameass numbers now

Because they're probably subsidizing gameass

 

[Koba St]

Microsoft has now stopped giving gamepass subscription numbers now

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Because they're probably subsidizing gameass

Microsoft has now stopped giving gamepass subscription numbers now

Because they flatlined in the past year. They were on a high last year due to all software/subscription/hardware sales getting a super boost due to the pandemic and lockdowns and now theres no way they can say they’ve had significant growth since then. The only thing that have continued to climb are hardware sales for all platforms, subs are down across the board on all media, and if you’re a company banking on impressing investors with subscription numbers you aren’t gonna report such a small growth. Thats why they have no problem reporting revenue, because revenue is still up due to hardware.

They are relying on forza and halo to drive subs for their next fiscal quarter where they are probably planning on dropping numbers, but its still gonna be in the low 20’s. Halo is F2P and most people that are waiting for forza and the halo campaign most likely already own an xbox and gamepass.

 

[ColdSlither]

Because they flatlined in the past year. They were on a high last year due to all software/subscription/hardware sales getting a super boost due to the pandemic and lockdowns and now theres no way they can say they’ve had significant growth since then. The only thing that have continued to climb are hardware sales for all platforms, subs are down across the board on all media, and if you’re a company banking on impressing investors with subscription numbers you aren’t gonna report such a small growth. Thats why they have no problem reporting revenue, because revenue is still up due to hardware.

They are relying on forza and halo to drive subs for their next fiscal report where they are probably planning on dropping numbers, but its still gonna be in the low 20’s. Halo is F2P and most people that are waiting for forza and the halo campaign most likely already own an xbox and gamepass.

I make fun of gamepass because it's fun. But it is a good deal, but with a subscription service how do you make more money? Amazon can with Prime because people are still buying stuff. But with something like Gamepass, or even Netflix, you're going to plateau eventually.